The WORST episodes of City Confidential
Every episode of City Confidential ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of City Confidential!
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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Death Dorm
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/2021
Students fear for their lives in the fall of 2000 when Washington, D.C.'s Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf, becomes a killer's hunting ground. Detectives sift through the twisted mystery and learn not everyone on campus is who they seem.
#3 - Violence in the Village
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2021
Terror sweeps through an upscale Houston, Texas, shopping district when a shooter attacks women without warning; a lucky break leads police to a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to unleash a deep-seeded hatred.
#4 - Bloodshed in Brookland
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2021
#6 - Monsters on Main Street
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2021
#7 - Huntsville: Twins on Trial
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/4/2001
Despite Huntsville's reputation among Southerners as a Yankee city, the town is shocked when a troubled Vietnam veteran accuses two sisters of hiring him to kill one of the women's husbands.
#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 - 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.
#10 - New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/1999
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Lake Tahoe, NV: The Casino Bomber
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/1/2005
Millionaire John Birges conspires to blow up Harvey's Casino.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Last Call Killer
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2021
New York City, known for its diversity and acceptance, becomes the focus for a sadistic serial killer targeting the gay community. It takes dogged determination and new technology to bring a monster's reign of terror to an end.
#17 - Merion, PA: Recipe for Murder
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/21/2005
Jim Webb, an owner and chef for the historic General Wayne Inn is murdered by none other than his co-owner, and fellow chef.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Conway, SC: Fatal Friendship
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/6/2004
Crystal Todd is murdered by her best friend.
#20 - Emporia, KS: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/2005
A minister and his mistress murder their spouses, Martin Moore and Linda Bird.
#21 - Knoxville, TN: Phantom Hitman
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/2004
The botched murder of Rob Whedbee becomes a media circus.
#22 - Providence, RI: The Mayor and the Mob
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/20/2004
Mayor Buddy Cianci meets "Operation Plunder Dome".
#23 - 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.
#24 - Riggins, ID: Frontier Faceoff
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2005
City Confidential deviates from its usual murder-profiling format to rally around Rob Nuckols, whose land was seized by the government.
#25 - Orange County, CA: A Family Affair
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/2004
The 1985 slaying of Linda Brown was not so easy to solve. Was it her sister, her husband or her step-daughter? It takes five years before the mastermind is convicted.