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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Jeremy Bamber loved the high life, but greed was suffocating him...he wanted more. In one of Britain's most notorious killings, he shot his mother, father, sister, Sheila Cafell and her five year old twins at the family farm and blamed it on his schizophrenic sister. But the police suspected him of the crime and when his girlfriend Julie Mugford went to the police and told them that he'd confessed to her, he was arrested and charged with murder. Though...
Series
Life and death row ; Episode 2 volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On March 11, 2009, Daniel Lopez was pulled over for driving erratically. The dramatic car chase that ensued killed a police officer and 27-year-old Daniel was given the death penalty. Unusually for a death row prisoner, he is resisting all appeals to block his execution - which is due in five weeks' time. The state-appointed attorneys for Lopez are arguing that their client is using the justice system as a form of suicide. His family is also pleading...
3) Bus 1170
Pub. Date
[2014], c2009
Language
English
Description
On a peaceful summer's night in July 2008, along a stretch of the Trans Canada Highway in Manitoba, the unthinkable happened. What started as just another Prairie bus ride became a nightmare when the lives of two passengers intersected tragically and resulted in the murder of Tim McLean. In this program, CBC correspondent Bob McKeown takes us inside what happened on Greyhound 1170 through the eyes of the surviving passengers and other witnesses.
Series
Life and death row ; Episode 1 volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In April 2013, 18-year-old Shawn Ford Jr was charged with killing his girlfriend's parents with a sledgehammer. Now he is on trial for his life and a jury of 12 ordinary people must decide whether he should live or die. This film follows the court case from the inside, as both the family of the victims and the defendant struggle to come to terms with such a horrific crime. But it is the jurors who must ultimately decide Shawn's fate. As the details...
Series
Life and death row ; Episode 3 volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In January 2014, Waynesville, Ohio, 18-year-old Justin Back is brutally murdered in his own home. Two of his 19-year-old friends, Austin Myers and Timothy Mosley, are arrested and charged with his murder. However, both give very different versions of events, begging the question, who is telling the truth? With prosecutors seeking the death penalty for the crime, what will each one do to save themselves from the ultimate punishment? With access to...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1998, 20-year-old Mason Jenkins was charged with the murder of his own sister. His parents, who stood by him as he claimed innocence during and after the trial, could have disowned him when he finally confessed to the shooting. But they chose instead to hold on to what remained of their family. This riveting film tells the Jenkins' story and shows how the trauma and horror of their loss has played out in a most unexpected way. Interviews with Mason...
7) Meadowoods
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy and uneventful small town, three college students, bored and desperate to make their mark, plot a savage and merciless murder. Electing to keep a video journal to memorialize their bizarre pact, they plot in secret, devising a homemade death chamber that will allow them to see, hear, feel, and linger over their intended victim's torment and final moments of life. Then, chosen at random, a fellow student becomes this victim when she is...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after Chinese student Lin Jun was brutally killed and dismembered, a group of Internet users attempted to track down Luka Rocco Magnotta, whom they also linked to online videos showing kittens being slowly suffocated. In this program, we meet these trackers and witness a re-enactment of their Magnotta investigation. See how they carefully studied videos to determine that the first kittens had been killed in Toronto, and how Magnotta...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
It was a local story that horrified the nation: two 12-year-old girls lured a friend into the Waukesha woods, where they proceeded to stab her 19 times in an effort to appease a faceless mythical entity known online as "Slenderman." But there's more to the story than the dark headlines it generated. A sobering documentary that delves deep into the story behind this shocking crime, Beware the Slenderman examines how an Internet urban myth could take...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Language
English
Description
A brilliant biochemistry student who is also a notorious prostitute. A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow. Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story set against a macabre web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. On a frigid Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman's (Thora Birch's) distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III), led police investigators to a corpse that only hours before he had buried in a snow bank....
Pub. Date
[2013], c1994
Language
English
Description
Throughout history serial killers and their crimes grab the headlines, while their victims are often forgotten. We remember Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, and Jeffrey Dahmer, but do we remember their victims? This ABC News program examines what happened over four days in August of 1990, when five young people were brutally murdered in Gainesville, Florida. Sonja Larson, 17; Christina Powell, 17; Christa Hoyt, 18; Tracy Paules, 23; and Manuel Taboada, 23,...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Situated across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, the Mexican City of Juárez has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world. It is a major conduit for illegal drugs passing from Mexico to the United States and a bloody battleground as cartels murder each other and innocent civilians. People have been strangled, beheaded, dismembered, and stoned to death: a mere shooting hardly gets any attention. The film tells the human stories behind...
13) Way Down South
Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
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This 1939 musical about plantation life in the antebellum South features lyrics by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes. The movie is a curious period piece with a somewhat unrealistic attitude toward the treatment of African-American slaves, but the perspective is fascinating and the music and singing memorable.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Using exclusive interviews and spanning half a decade, The Cheshire Murders reveals the shocking police failures and untold personal dramas behind the notorious rape-arson-homicide case that shook Cheshire, Connecticut in the summer of 2007. In this quiet, bedroom suburb, Jennifer Petit and her two daughters, age 11 and 17, were killed in a home invasion gone horribly wrong; husband and father William Petit was the only member of the family who escaped...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
They exploded onto the scene in 1996. A year after disbanding, the Murder City Devils told the story of their short, but illustrious career in this rockumentary from director James Bazan. The Murder City Devils: Rock and Roll Won't Wait chronicles the punk-revivalists' rise to fame and features interviews with band members Spencer Moody, Dann Gallucci, Coady Willis, Leslie Hardy, Derek Fudesco, and Nate Manny, interviews with their fans and families,...
16) Joy Road
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tony Smalls, a burned-out lawyer, is forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend her fiancé, a gang kingpin who is under arrest for a triple murder that he says he didn't commit. Tony feels the pressure of the case when federal agents and a shadowy corporation get involved. When Nia starts an investigation of her own into the murder, it not only brings her closer to the truth-it puts both herself and Tony in harm's way....
Pub. Date
[2014], c2007
Language
English
Description
This video includes the Murder City Devils' complete last show, filmed at the Showbox in Seattle, Halloween 2001. Bonus features include a full-length commentary track with Spencer and Merchbot 2000 and live bootleg videos. This film captures every sweat-filled moment of that historic night at the Showbox Theatre. The sound quality is superb, the interviews are insightful and fascinating. Above all, though, the footage is accurately captured from...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Shirley, Carlene and Ruby have collectively spent over eighty-five years in Missouri state prison, having each been convicted of the murders of their abusive husbands. Beaten, raped, sold, abused and almost murdered, these women suffered for years prior to their desperate crimes. A powerful and poignant insight into the world of domestic abuse, the lives it destroys, and an insensitive US justice system. A shocking film you won't easily forget.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in the small Mississippi county of Neshoba (a crime that came to be known as the "Mississippi Burning" murders). These young men, two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi, were in the Deep South helping register African-American voters during what became known as "Freedom Summer." Although the Klansmen bragged about what they did, no one was held accountable for...
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