The BEST episodes of City Confidential

#1 - Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/21/2000

#2 - Hermosa Beach: Missing in Paradise

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/5/1999

In 1995, Charles Rathburn, a freelance photographer, invited Linda Sobek, an aspiring model, on a photo shoot. Sobek never returned and the camera was turned on Rathburn after it was discovered that he was the one who killed her.

#3 - New London, Connecticut: Extreme Family Feud

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/20/2003

Bad blood between two feuding suburban families leads to murder, rocking New London, Conn.

#4 - Murder in Amish Country

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2021

#5 - New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/1999

#6 - San Leandro, CA: The Sausage King

Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/5/2005

Former mayoral candidate, Stuart Alexander, guns down three meat inspectors after they've been sent to shut down his family's sausage plant for not adhering to FDA food safety requirements.

#7 - Saddle River, NJ: From Russia with Murder

Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/15/2005

The murder of Dr. Yakov Gluzman sparks the prosecution to file charges, against his wife, for interstate domestic violence.

#8 - Lake Tahoe, NV: The Casino Bomber

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/1/2005

Millionaire John Birges conspires to blow up Harvey's Casino.

#9 - Reading, MA: Fatal Blow

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/8/2005

A case of over-zealous youth hockey parents results in violent fight and death.

#10 - Minneapolis, MN: Deadly Investment

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/23/2005

A disreputable stock broker, Michael Prozumenshikov, is found under a compost heap after losing huge sums of money from his clients in the Russian emigre community in bad stock deals.

#11 - Amarillo, TX: High School Hit & Run

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/9/2005

Brian Deneke is murdered in an IHOP parking lot for being a goth-punk in a cowboy-centric town.

#12 - Pikeville, KY: Kentucky Gothic

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/26/2005

Vidar Lillelid and his family are murdered because teen-aged deviants felt like doing it.

#13 - Seattle, WA: Long Walk Home

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/2004

The 10-year-old cold case of Mia Zapata is solved.

#14 - Palo Alto, CA: Flesh and Blood

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2004

Music teacher, Kristine Fitzhugh, was murdered by her husband, and the likely reason is a secret in her past.

#15 - Rochester, NY: The Big Heist

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/23/2005

The high-tech town of Rochester is stunned when a priest, an ex-cop, and a former Irish Republican Army terrorist are implicated in a $7.4-million Brink's heist, the fifth largest armored car robbery in U.S. history.

#16 - Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/20/1999

A look at the case of the murder of Martha Moxley and the case that resounds today.

#17 - El Paso: Outlaw Attorney

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2003

Recalling the 1978 murder of El Paso lawyer Lee Chagra, who was shot to death in his office by burglars. Narrator: Paul Winfield.

#18 - Archer City: Under Suspicion

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/1/2003

Recalling the 1995 case of former Texas sheriff Presley L. Pippin Jr., convicted of raping Gail Bennett shortly after her 1990 arrest for shooting her husband. Narrator: Paul Winfield.

#19 - Horror in Amityville

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/9/2002

In 1974, the entire DeFeo family was brutally murdered in their home as they slept. The only living DeFeo, Ronald Jr., was convicted of the crime that turned one Amityville house into the setting of a blockbuster movie.

#20 - Akron: Brother Against Brother

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/2001

In 1980, cosmetics magnate and millionaire Dean Milo was found dead in his mansion. The investigation eventually led police to a hitman and Dean's own brother, Fred.

#21 - Elizabeth, NJ: Death of a Don

Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 12/10/2005

The DeCavalcante crime family offs its leader, Johnny Boy, because of his secret sexual orientation.

#22 - Memphis: Burning Betrayal

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/2002

The 1991 murder of Memphis pilot Holly Mullins, whose body was discovered in a burning van, is investigated.

#23 - Wilmington: Dangerous Affairs

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1999

Former state prosecuter Thomas Capano is accused of the murder of his ex-lover, Anne Marie Fahey, a member of the governor's staff

#24 - St. Augustine: The Socialite and the Politician

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/2000

When model Athalia Ponsell-Lindsley, the mayor's wife, was murdered and nearly decapitated with a machete in 1974. A politician who despised Athalia was tried and acquitted, and police never looked for another suspect.

#25 - Trail of Terror

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/2021

The murder of a vibrant 21-year-old leaves the peaceful community of Knoxville, Tenn. questioning its core values; a family's persistence reminds Marble City what it's made of and residents band together to bring a killer down.