The WORST episodes of A Crime to Remember

Every episode of A Crime to Remember ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of A Crime to Remember!

Styles may change, but murder lasts forever. Step into the past and unravel the intricacies of real-life murder cases of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Set against the backdrop of Studebakers, fedoras, and three-martini lunches, these stories of truly mad men and women reveal complicated relationships where thwarted dreams and repressed passions led to terrible crimes. This series inaugurates a new high-end cinematic style, using the visual grammar of movies to bring the era to life. To properly illustrate each time period, the series stays true to the fashion and styles while highlighting the cultural taboos and social norms that informed each case.

Last Updated: 11/9/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
star
7.29
72 votes

#1 - The Newlydeads

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/31/2017

Los Angeles, CA, 1968: Cheryl Perveler is found in her yellow sports car bleeding out from a gunshot wound to the head. When investigators dig into Cheryl's life, the plot that they uncover will defy even the most outlandish expectations.

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7.31
185 votes

#2 - Go Ask Alice

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/2013

Police suspect the parents are responsible for the deaths of their children; it takes two years to fully unravel the case.

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7.33
69 votes

#3 - And Then There Was One

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2015

In 1966, Richard Speck slays eight nursing students at a Chicago dormitory, while the ninth nursing student survives the crime of the century by hiding under a bed.

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7.37
38 votes

#4 - Coffin for Christmas

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2018

Heiress Barbara Mackle is kidnapped and buried alive in a coffin-like capsule; local police and the FBI race to Mackle's abductor before her time underground runs out.

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7.40
53 votes

#5 - Damsel on Death Row

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/2015

Los Angeles, CA, 1934: Eric Madison is found dead in a boarding house at the back of the Warner Brother's lot. But in an age where propriety is paramount, will the punishment fit the crime?

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7.40
55 votes

#6 - Bye Bye Betty

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/2015

Odessa, TX, 1961: Teenager Betty Williams isn't home. She's not at school. Police are sure she is a runaway, until they uncover a shocking high school rumor that will change this small town forever.

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7.41
69 votes

#7 - Such a Pretty Face

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2015

In 1937, a pin-up model and two others are discovered brutally murdered on Easter Sunday.

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7.42
59 votes

#8 - Comedy of Terrors

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2015

Macon, GA, 1960: When wealthy Mary Burge is found strangled in her bed, detectives encounter a world of hooded Klan members and blue blood Yankees where the truth truly is stranger than fiction.

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7.43
75 votes

#9 - Killer Prophet

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/24/2017

Santa Cruz, CA, 1970: When an entire family is discovered shot and drowned in their own swimming pool, investigators must traipse through psychedelic hippie communes to solve this Manson-style murder.

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7.44
62 votes

#10 - The Wrong Man

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2015

Bay Village, OH, 1954: When Marilyn Sheppard is found beaten to death in her bedroom, it will take more than thirty years to piece together the truth of what happened the night she died.

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7.44
87 votes

#11 - Luck Be a Lady

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/2016

Kansas City, MO, 1960: When Patricia Jones’ bullet-ridden body turns up by the side of lovers’ lane, Detective Browning forges ahead on a catch me if you can trail from Missouri to Mexico, taunted by the sly smiles of his provocative arch nemesis.

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7.45
58 votes

#12 - Cabin in the Woods

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/2014

The case of 14-year-old Californian student Stephanie Bryan, who disappeared in April 1955 and whose shallow grave was discovered a fortnight later. Although the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, Burton Abbott was later convicted of Bryan's rape and murder and sentenced to death, raising questions as to whether the state has the right to apply a death sentence on this type of evidence alone

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7.45
66 votes

#13 - Guess Who?

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/10/2017

Los Angeles, CA, 1922: When a husband is found dead and his wife discovered locked in a closet, detectives find themselves lost in a world of seduction and obsession where the ghosts are all too real.

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star
7.47
76 votes

#14 - Paradise Lost

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/27/2016

Honolulu, HA, 1931: When the young aristocratic wife of a Naval Lieutenant is discovered bruised and beaten by the side of a dark road, a hackneyed scheme and a trigger-happy hand will lead to the most sensational murder trial in Hawaii’s history.

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7.48
85 votes

#15 - Devil's Advocate

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/2016

St. Paul, MN, 1963: Carol Thompson, church-going wife and devoted mother of four, is found in a bloody heap on her neighbor’s doorstep. Detectives must peel away the layers of her picture-perfect life to reveal the painful secrets of this housewife.

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7.49
93 votes

#16 - Teenage Wasteland

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/2016

Lincoln, NE, 1958: When two love-struck, sex-crazed teenagers embark on a killing spree in Lincoln, Nebraska, it will fall to one local sheriff to put the brakes on this nightmare of a joy ride.

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star
7.50
64 votes

#17 - Last Night Stand

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2015

After a 28-year-old teacher for deaf children is murdered in 1973, detectives must immerse themselves in the swinging nightlife of New York City to solve the case.

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star
7.52
48 votes

#18 - The Bad Old Days

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/17/2018

Chicago is gripped with terror after three bizarre and savage murders go unsolved; police officers and newspaper reporters are eager to deliver a suspect amidst the public furor.

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7.55
138 votes

#19 - The Career Girl Murders

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2013

The 1963 murder of researcher Janice Wylie and schoolteacher Emily Hoffert in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Both graduates in their early twenties, they were raped and their bodies left in a mutilated condition. George Whitmore Jr was convicted of the crime, but later found to be innocent before Ricky Robles - the true killer - was identified.

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7.59
93 votes

#20 - Judge, Jury, Executioner

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/26/2013

A case from 1955 in which respected judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie vanished after attending a dinner party. Embittered municipal judge Joe Peel was later found guilty of arranging for two hitmen to murder the couple by throwing them from a boat with lead weights strapped to their legs. Their bodies were never recovered

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7.59
54 votes

#21 - Baby Come Home

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/30/2014

The 1953 kidnap of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a multi-millionaire Missouri car dealer. He was abducted from his school and shortly afterwards shot dead by drug-addicted alcoholics Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady, who issued a ransom for $600,000 after the murder had been carried out. Though the pair were readily caught, much of the money was never recovered

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7.60
43 votes

#22 - A Woman's Place

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/2018

Ten-year-old Leona O'Loughlin fails to show up at school, while her detective father, Leo, falls violently ill; investigators consider the chilling possibility that someone may be trying to eliminate the entire family.

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7.63
68 votes

#23 - The Gentleman Killer

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/3/2017

Bronx, NY, 1941: When tea for two becomes a murder of one, investigators from all across New York City must act upon the testimony of a few brave women to bring the killer to justice.

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star
7.64
39 votes

#24 - Black Sheep

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2018

Four members of the Mark family are found murdered in their Cedar Falls, Iowa, home, prompting police to suspect someone close to the family; the bizarre outcome shakes the townspeople and devastates the surviving members of the Mark family.

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7.67
48 votes

#25 - Accident on Banyan St.

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/16/2014

An incident from October 1964 in which Cork Miller was burned to death while trapped inside his crashed vehicle. However, the fire uncovered deceit, adultery, and betrayal ensnaring his wife Lucille

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