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The F.B.I. Files Season 1 Episodes

13 Episodes 1998 - 1999

Episode 1

Polly Klaas: Kidnapped

Tue, Sep 22, 199853 mins

FBI agents investigate the nationally publicized kidnapping of a 12 year old girl from her own home. Despite a massive effort, detailed in this program, evidence at the crime scene is simply insufficient to point to a suspect. It took a fortuitous discovery two months later to lead police to the culprit.

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Episode 2

Above the Law

Fri, Oct 9, 199852 mins

The investigation into the rape and murder of 23-year old Robin Bishop on a Californian highway in January 1982. Highway patrolman George Michael Gwaltney is the prime suspect, but the prosecution's case is heavily reliant on circumstantial evidence.

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Episode 3

Human Prey

Fri, Oct 2, 199852 mins

Thomas Dillon was a serial killer who randomly searched for and shot his victims in remote locations in southern Ohio. His hit and run tactics left little evidence to identify, much less convict him. But over the years his odd behavior drew the attention of witnesses and the authorities. Finally one fortuitous piece of evidence confirmed his guilt and convinced Dillon to confess to avoid a death sentence.

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Episode 4

Death in Alaska

Tue, Oct 13, 199852 mins

Anchorage police and FBI agents build an irrefutable forensic case against pedophile Kirby Anthony who brutally raped and murdered Nancy Newman and her two children in a homicidal rage. The preponderance of evidence proves to be a challenge in itself sorting out which items are relevant to the crime and which are incidental.

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Episode 5

Deadly Paradise

Fri, Oct 23, 199852 mins

For two couples on vacation, an island paradise turns to hell when one couple murders the other. Eleven years after the murder, a drifter sailing the high seas to escape a drug charge is convicted of the crime.

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Episode 6

The True Story of Mississippi Burning

Mon, Feb 8, 199952 mins

The FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid the tension of the civil right movement.

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Episode 7

The Crazy Don

Wed, Oct 28, 199852 mins

Over many years the FBI investigates and finally penetrates the five New York crime families. Special attention is given to Vincent Gigante who feigned mental illness to avoid prosecution and then incarceration.

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Episode 8

Killing Spree

Tue, Nov 3, 199852 mins

South Florida Police investigating a serial killing spree in 1984 gather a wealth of trace evidence that clearly links the victims and is a virtual fingerprint of the killer. But the evidence doesn't point to a suspect until a match identifies another, extremely observant victim that the killer did not murder.

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Episode 9

Murdering Cowboy

Tue, Dec 15, 199852 mins

FBI agents hunt self styled mountain man Claude Dallas in the wilds of Idaho. A man who felt rules did not apply to him frequently ran afoul of the law without great consequence. But when he killed two game wardens the FBI launched a full scale man hunt. Then again when he escaped from prison.

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Episode 10

The Unabomber

Wed, Dec 23, 199852 mins

Antisocial misfit The Unabomber (1998) maimed and murdered people with mail bombs for two decades. Not until his infamous manifesto was published in the newspaper did his brother suspect he was the Unabomber and turn him in.

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Episode 11

Melissa Brannen: Missing

Mon, Dec 7, 199852 mins

Trace evidence convinces police and FBI agents that pedophile Caleb Hughes abducted and murdered missing five year old Melissa Brannen. But unless they can find her remains they cannot make a case for murder.

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Episode 12

The World Trade Center Bombing

Wed, Dec 23, 199852 mins

The FBI investigates the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center. Discovery of the vehicle identification number of the truck quickly leads investigators to Mohammad Salameh who rented the truck. Investigations of Salameh leads to Nidal Ayyad. Ayyad's records provide evidence of a larger conspiracy including plans for further attacks. The international man hunt for the remaining conspirators resulted in convictions of all the terrorists in less than three years.

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Episode 13

John Gotti: Convicted

Tue, Jan 26, 199952 mins

This program follows the team of FBI agents charged with investigating the Gambino family. Their focus turns to John Gotti after the murder of his boss, the head of the family, Paul Castellano. Years of surveillance and information from informants finally enables the FBI to obtain recordings of Gotti talking candidly about his criminal enterprise and the murders he had ordered.

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