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8 Episodes 2015 - 2016
Episode 1
Sat, Nov 21, 2015
Helen Golay, 74, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, killed a down-on-his-luck, temporarily homeless screenwriter, Kenneth McDavid, 50, and made the murder look like a hit-and-run in order to collect on a multi-million dollar life insurance policy. Incredibly, when police investigated the case, they found out Golay and Rutterschmidt had committed the exact same crime 6 years earlier!
Episode 2
Sat, Nov 28, 2015
Skylar Deleon (25) was a former child actor with a string of successes - 10 commercials and a role on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Years later, after realizing his career was heading nowhere, he turned to a life of crime. Skylar became infamous for murdering a retired couple, Tom and Jackie Hawks, while pretending to buy their 55-foot yacht.
Episode 3
Sat, Dec 5, 2015
Nick Markowitz (15) was kidnapped and murdered because of a feud over drug money between Nick's half-brother Ben Markowitz (22) and suburban drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood (21). Four years later, Hollywood director Nick Cassavetes made a film based on the case, Alpha Dog, with an all-star cast, including Bruce Willis, Emilie Hirsch and Justin Timberlake.
Episode 4
Sat, Dec 12, 2015
On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakely (44)-the wife of actor Robert Blake (68)-was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car outside an Italian restaurant. In 2002, Blake was charged with Bakely's murder, but in March 2005, a jury found Blake not guilt. Then, seven months later, Blake was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by Bakely's children. Bakely's murder remains unsolved.
Episode 5
Sat, Dec 26, 2015
The Silent Movie Theatre is a beloved Hollywood institution-the only movie theater in the world devoted exclusively to silent movies. But it was also the site of a horrific murder: its owner, Laurence Austin (74) was shot in the face with a .357 at close range by Christian Rodriguez (19), a hitman hired by Austin's lover (and the theater's projectionist) James Van Sickle (34) during a screening of Austin's favorite silent movie, Sunrise.
Episode 6
Sat, Dec 26, 2015
While driving home from a movie premiere, Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, 64, was murdered (shot 4 times) by convicted felon Harold Martin Smith, 43, under mysterious circumstances-the case was officially closed but conspiracy theories still linger because the killer shot himself and no clear motif was ever established.
Episode 7
Sat, Jan 2, 2016
Serial sexual predator Victor Paleologus, 53, bound and fatally strangled aspiring actress Kristi Johnson, 21, after luring her to a secluded spot by posing as a talent scout for the next James Bond film.
Episode 8
Sat, Jan 9, 2016
Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Robert Lees (91) survived being blacklisted in the fifties, only to be brutally murdered in the middle of the night by a transient, homicidal maniac, Keven Lee Graff (27). Graff stabbed Lees 41 times, then removed his heart, head, and genitals. That morning, Graff took Lees' severed head to the home next door where he committed a second murder, fatally stabbing Dr. Morely Engleson (69). Graff was arrested the following day and eventually pleaded guilty to both murders although he claimed no memory of the crimes.