Perfect Crimes?
The four-part documentary series examines two historic cases in each episode: a nearly perfect crime that failed and a crime that remains unsolved.
- 1999-1999
- 1 season
- Documentary
The four-part documentary series examines two historic cases in each episode: a nearly perfect crime that failed and a crime that remains unsolved.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 1999
Episode 1
Brinks Robbery & Zodiac Killer
Sun, Sep 12, 1999
In 1950, nine men robbed the Boston headquarters of Brinks Inc. The case was finally cracked just five days before the statute of limitations ran out. In the 1960s, someone killed 5 people in California.
Episode 2
Richard Boggs & Black Dahlia
Sun, Sep 12, 1999
The story of an insurance company that finally solved a case in which a doctor helped fake a death. Elizabeth Short have died brutally before she could make on the big screen.
Episode 3
Stella Nickell & William Desmond Taylor
Sun, Sep 12, 1999
A woman killed her husband and a stranger by putting poison in Excedrin bottles. The second story is about William Desmond Taylor, a film director who was shot to death in 1922.
Episode 4
Leopold and Loeb & D.B. Cooper
Sun, Sep 12, 1999
In 1924, two boy set out to commit the perfect murder. In 1971, a man hijacked a plane, then parachuted from the craft at 10,000 feet with $100,000 and has never turned up.