The WORST episodes of City Confidential

#1 - San Leandro, CA: The Sausage King

Season 11 - Episode 9 - 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.

#2 - Hermosa Beach: Missing in Paradise

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1999

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 - Skidmore: Frontier Justice

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1999

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

#4 - Phoenix: Shady Deals in Sun City

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2000

A printer is mudered and his partner is inplicated in the crime.

#5 - Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/21/2000

#6 - Scottsboro: Foul Play in the Bible Belt

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/21/2000

In 1994, a quiet southern town is rocked by the brutal murder of a local senator's daughter, Vickie Lander Beckham, and even more disturbed to learn that the killer was her husband, Stephen Beckham, the son of a prominent bishop.

#7 - San Antonio: Maximum Justice

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/4/2002

In 1979, Judge Jon Wood was murdered by a single shot from a high-powered weapon. Jimmy Chagra, a well-known drug lord, was the one responsible for setting the murder up, but Charles Harrelson, the man who pulled the trigger, was sentenced for the murder.

#8 - Park City: High Times and Hate Crimes

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2002

Recalled: the case of David Nelson Thacker, who was given a six-year sentence for killing a gay man in Utah. Narrator: Paul Winfield.

#9 - Beverly Hills: Brothers in Arms

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2002

Profiles the life of Lyle & Erik Menendez growing up in luxury in Beverly Hills and leading up to the well publicized 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose & Kitty Menendez.

#10 - Fresno: Fatal Inheritance

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/1/2003

Recalling the case of Dana Ewell, who was convicted in 1998, along with Joel Radovcich, of murdering his parents and sister in 1992. Narrator: Paul Winfield.

#11 - El Paso: Outlaw Attorney

Season 7 - Episode 3 - 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.

#12 - Rochester, NY: The Big Heist

Season 11 - Episode 1 - 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.

#13 - Palo Alto, CA: Flesh and Blood

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2004

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

#14 - Providence, RI: The Mayor and the Mob

Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2004

Mayor Buddy Cianci meets "Operation Plunder Dome".

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

Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2005

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

#16 - Minneapolis, MN: Deadly Investment

Season 11 - Episode 5 - 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.

#17 - Reading, MA: Fatal Blow

Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/8/2005

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

#18 - Lake Tahoe, NV: The Casino Bomber

Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/1/2005

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

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

Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/2005

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

#20 - Elizabeth, NJ: Death of a Don

Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2005

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

#21 - Key West: Pirates in Paradise

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2000

#22 - Virginia City: Showdown at the Mustang Ranch

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2000

The owner of the infamous Mustang Ranch, Joe Conforte, evades the IRS with the help of three local officials, Peter Perry, Bob Del Carlo, and Shirley Colleti, until the government catches on.

#23 - Seattle, WA: Long Walk Home

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/18/2004

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

#24 - Nightmare in New England

Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/2023

East Millinocket, Maine is brought to its knees when its most popular teen turns up dead. For 38 years, answers elude police. But with the help of a dedicated mother and a community that never forgets, the secret killer is finally exposed.

#25 - Rock Springs: Deadly Draw in the Wild West

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/25/2000

An old fashion old west shootout or murder?