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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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?
#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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#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
#13 - 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.
#14 - Mother's Little Helper
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/2018
The blood-soaked body of 76-year-old Franklin Bradshaw is found behind the counter of his auto-parts store, prompting detectives to dig into the strained history of his family and uncover a hotbed of deceit, manipulation and all-consuming greed.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - 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
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - 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
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Who Killed Mr. Woodward?
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/2013
The death of wealthy heir and prominent member of New York society circles William Woodward Jr, who was shot dead by his wife Ann, who feared an intruder had accessed their home in October 1955. Many suspected she murdered him as the pair had been arguing earlier in the evening, though she was never charged
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