The BEST episodes of Vanity Fair Confidential season 3

Every episode of Vanity Fair Confidential season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Vanity Fair Confidential season 3!

Whether we love them or love to hate them, there is something about the rich and powerful that keeps us fascinated. From their rise and fall to their outrageous lies, and even murder, Vanity Fair captures it all and we just can’t turn away. Now, the true stories we have all devoured in Vanity Fair come to television. In each hour-long episode, viewers are treated to a sinful dose of power, wealth, deception and crime.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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7.58
24 votes

#1 - Bikram Feels the Heat

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2017

In 1974, Bikram Choudhury, a yoga prodigy, opens his first studio in Beverly Hills, California. By 2011, there are over 600 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. As Choudhury’s empire grows, so does the cult-like nature of his organization. He becomes controlling, demanding loyalty from his followers and surrounds himself with young, female students who he insists brush his hair and massage him. In 2013, one woman alleges that Choudhury assaulted her. Soon after, more women come forward with similar stories of harassment and sexual assault. How did this man allegedly go from healer to sexual predator? What will it take to stop the violence?

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7.58
26 votes

#2 - St. George’s Hidden Dragons

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/2017

St. George’s School, an elite New England prep school, sits on a hilltop in Rhode Island. Graduates have included Mellons, Vanderbilts, Bushes and Astors. But the campus holds decades of dark secrets. In April 2015, the school sends a letter to students and alumni stating that it is investigating claims of sexual abuse of students by a staff member. It seems ready to atone for its sins. As dozens of alumni come forward with stories of sexual misconduct by teachers and staff, how high will the number of victims – and perpetrators – climb? And how deep did the cover-up go?

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7.54
35 votes

#3 - Murder at the Drama Club

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2017

Deep in Louisiana bayou country, a man is found brutally murdered in a nightclub. A handwritten note soaked in the victim's blood reads: "You gave me AIDS." Police have more questions than answers. Was it a hate crime? Will the killer strike again?

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7.44
50 votes

#4 - The Fugitive Son

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2017

A star athlete from a wealthy family brutally rapes several teenage girls and threatens to kill them if they tell anyone. An international manhunt ensues, and he eludes capture by the FBI and Interpol. Will he honor his death threats?

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7.43
37 votes

#5 - Seeds of Doubt

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2017

After a serial killer known as the Stocking Strangler is sentenced to death in Georgia, Vanity Fair writer David Rose uncovers shocking facts about the case and races to stop the execution.

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7.41
32 votes

#6 - Grounds for Murder

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2017

Two women disappear from a college town, and panic pervades the community after their bodies are found; the victims' families galvanize the public to help put a killer behind bars.

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7.38
32 votes

#7 - Nightmares on Main Street

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2017

In Austin, Texas, detectives uncover a day care abuse scandal that horrifies the community, and women from across the country come forward with chilling tales of ritual abuse.

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7.37
27 votes

#8 - Locked Up Next Door

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/2017

When Aubrey Lloyd learns her teenage sister has run away, Aubrey is certain she knows what’s happening. Her sister is being sold for sex. It is a familiar story for Aubrey, who was forced into prostitution when she was a high school student. The multibillion-dollar sex trafficking industry has evolved into a modern day slave trade. In Houston, law enforcement officials fight to take down notorious trafficker Gerardo “El Gallo” Salazar, who brands his victims with trademark rooster tattoos. When a girl’s innocence becomes a moneymaking proposition, how far will a sexual predator go to turn a profit?

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7.36
44 votes

#9 - Murder on the Sunset Strip

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2017

In 1980, a serial killer abducts women from downtown Los Angles and dumps their bodies in bizarre places. When an unidentified caller telephones police, they must decipher fact from fiction as the woman confesses to a bizarre series of events.

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7.26
35 votes

#10 - Natalee Holloway: Lost in Paradise

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/2017

In May 2010, Stephany Flores, the daughter of a Peruvian politician, goes missing after a night out in an upscale district of Lima, Peru. Shocked by the sudden disappearance, her family immediately starts searching the downtown casinos where Stephany liked to spend her free time. Culling through surveillance footage of the Atlantic City Casino, it is clear she left the venue with an unknown tall, white man. As they dig deeper, the Flores family is shocked to learn that exactly five years earlier, another family 3,000 miles away was scrambling to track down their own daughter after a night with this same mystery man.

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7.24
29 votes

#11 - Henry Lee Lucas: Dead Reckoning

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2017

A Texas drifter is sentenced to death after confessing to hundreds of brutal murders, but some investigators continue to wonder if they have the real killer behind bars.

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6.71
24 votes

#12 - Dylan Roof's Radical White Rage

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/2017

A young white stranger joins a bible class at the historic black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. After sitting silently for 45 minutes, he shoots nine parishioners dead. The killer, Dylann Roof, recently radicalized on the Internet, is committed to starting a race war. Two months later, three white militia men, calling themselves “Crusaders,” plot to blow up an apartment complex in Kansas where 120 Somali Muslim immigrants live and pray. Intent on “a bloodbath,” they use the Internet to learn how to kill more effectively. How far do these online communities, who seem committed to hate, stretch?

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