The BEST episodes of City Confidential season 1

#1 - Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/1999

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.

#2 - 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".

#3 - 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.

#4 - Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island

Season 1 - Episode 6 - 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.

#5 - Midnight in Miami

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/1998

A socialite hired a hitman to kill her husband.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/25/1999

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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Nashville: Murder in Music City

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1999

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

#12 - San Francisco: Betrayal by the Sea

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/9/1999

The case of pornographic-film producer Jim Mitchell, who was convicted in 1991 for the shooting death of brother Artie, who was also his business partner. The documentary includes a look at Mitchell's high-powered defense.

#13 - Fairbanks: Mining for Murder

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/21/1999

A political activist mysteriously disappears after befriending a man and former convict who shared his distaste for government control. Could this man have been the killer, or could his outspoken nature have created another enemy?

#14 - Soho: The Art of Murder

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/12/1999

In 1985, artist Ana Mendieta fell from a building while she and her husband fellow artist, Carl Andre, were fighting. Andre was arrested for the murder after it is discovered she had a desperate fear of heights and a bellman heard her pleading for her life.

#15 - 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.

#16 - Skidmore: Frontier Justice

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/16/1999

Ken McElroy, who terrorized Skidmore, Missori, is finally killed by vigiante farmers who are fed up with his criminal ways.

#17 - 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.

#18 - Gibsonton: The Last Side Show

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/16/1999

Grady Stiles, a circus act named "Lobster Boy",was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in 1992. The police found out that his ex-wife Mary Theresa Herzog, her son Glenn Newman, Jr., and his friend Chris Wyant all plotted to kill Stiles for his alcoholism and abusive ways.

#19 - New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy

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

#20 - Bermuda: Death on the Rock

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/13/1999

Chronicling the 1996 rape and murder in Bermuda of teenage tourist Rebecca Middleton, a crime for which her suspected killer was set free. Included: her family's efforts to appeal the case; how the incident has affected Bermuda's reputation for safety.