The BEST episodes of City Confidential season 1

Every episode of City Confidential season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of City Confidential season 1!

City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: A&EStatus: Continuing
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8.67
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#1 - Nashville: Murder in Music City

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/13/1999

The story of the murder of Nashville performer and Hee Haw star David 'Stringbean' Akeman and his wife in 1973.

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3 votes

#2 - Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/5/1999

In 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his cooperation with the Gaming Control Board in which he agreed to confess that he "fixed" machines so they wouldn't pay jackpots.

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8.50
2 votes

#3 - Little Rock: The Politics of Murder

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/1999

In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers. The investigation led to may Lee Orsini, a woman who wanted Bill as more than a lawyer, and the two men delivering the "flowers".

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8.33
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#4 - The Chicago Horse Mafia

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1998

Helen Vorhees Brach, heiress to the Brach family fortune, is linked to the deaths of a string of champion racehorses.

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8.00
5 votes

#5 - Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/12/1998

In 1990, George Walterfield Russell, a charming regular on the club scene, is revealed to be a psychopath after Mary Ann Pohlreich, Andrea Levine, and another woman are found dead and their bodies posed in similar positions.

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4 votes

#6 - Midnight in Miami

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/1998

A socialite hired a hitman to kill her husband.

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3 votes

#7 - Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1998

Police investigate a highly respected Mormon leader when a bomb blows apart Mark Hoffmans car.

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7.00
1 votes

#8 - Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/1/1999

Nancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of death, arsenic, is discovered, and an investigation reveals an unhappy marriage with one of the premier couples of the wealthy Dallas suburb of Park Cities.

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7.00
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#9 - Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/1999

Jeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local man that crusaded for morality in Ft. Lauderdale. After the cops raided the Willets' business in 1991, they found out that one of her clients was Danziger which led to a media frenzy.

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2 votes

#10 - Secrets and Superstition in Salem

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/1998

Recalling the 1991 murder of Martha Brailsford by her neighbor, Tom Maimoni, on a sailing trip off the coast of Salem, Mass. Included: interviews with law-enforcement officials; neighbors; the lobsterman who found the body; and a local witch who was consulted on the case.

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9 votes

#11 - Deadly Odds in Biloxi

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1998

Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret are gunned down in their Biloxi home in 1987. The investigation leads police to a prison scam, an inmate named Kirksey Nix, and Sherry's best friend Pete Halat.

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2 votes

#12 - New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/10/1999

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