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The relationship between Don Lewis and Carole Baskin was Shakespearian from the start – a chance high-stakes encounter led to a whirlwind affair ending in them divorcing their previous spouses to be together. Then – they bought a wildlife reserve to feed Carole’s love of animals and Don’s desire for a diverse business portfolio. But not all was peaceful in paradise – behind closed doors their marriage was filled with sexual exploits, restraining orders, and declining mental health. Things came to a head when Don abruptly disappeared on his way to one of his frequent trips to Costa Rica. Their larger-than-life love story became a salacious drama with huge media attention and accusations pointing back to Carole, some claiming she may have even fed him to tigers to get rid of him. The real question is: Will we ever know what really happened to Don Lewis, and if Carole Baskin had anything to do with it?
More than seven years after her acquittal, Casey Anthony’s friends are speaking out. They recall their tense interviews with police, and the media circus surrounding her high-profile trial in which Casey Anthony faced the death penalty. This quartet includes a childhood friend who was rumored to be Caylee’s father. A tattoo artist who inscribed “Bella Vita” on Casey’s left shoulder, just two weeks after her daughter went missing. A friend who recalls being besieged by reporters on his apartment steps after the story broke. A former roommate who makes a heart-wrenching visit to the site where Caylee’s body was found.“Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak” features interviews with members of both the prosecution as well as Casey’s defense team. They describe their strategies in a case that had all of America glued to their TV sets. Did presenting a bombshell theory involving Casey’s father create reasonable doubt amongst jury members? How did prosecutors lose a case that many considered a “slam dunk?” Throughout the program, audiences will witness chilling audio and video recordings from Casey, her parents and her friends during the frantic weeks and months following Caylee’s disappearance.
After Lorena Bobbitt snapped and cut off her husband John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis with a kitchen knife in 1993, the extensive abuse she had endured from him seemed to sail into that empty field along with the soon-to-be-infamous severed organ. Her trauma would barely be an afterthought of the sordid story in the public’s eyes. Remarkably candid revelations from Lorena (now Gallo) detail what life was truly like inside the eye of the post-incident hurricane. And a powerful one-on-one conversation with Amanda Knox enables Lorena to compare the most dramatic kind of notes with another woman who’s had her life hijacked and redefined by a media frenzy. In addition to Lorena being ultra-transparent about the abuse she suffered at the hands of John during their marriage, she also reveals that she is shockingly still being harassed by him—and their toxic relationship continues to this day. Decades after the crime that launched a million punchlines, Lorena is now reclaiming her narrative by giving a powerful voice to the traumatic parts of her story that the media and public largely ignored after the infamous slicing incident. The world is finally beginning to truly understand that there were two victims in the apartment that night—and Lorena’s story is one of survival and transformation. Of course, Lorena always knew her truth. In this documentary, she shares a never-before-seen perspective on a legendary story people thought they knew. There was much more to the Bobbitt saga than what the tabloids and late-night comics made people believe. And there’s much, much more to the woman at the heart of all the cheap jokes and bitter drama. Lorena has been to hell and back, and she’s ready to tell all…
It’s a strange incident one former FBI agent calls the most unique case he’s ever seen. A young soccer mom goes for an afternoon run and disappears into thin air. The bizarre small town mystery made national headlines, baffled cops, and rocked the tight knit community of Redding, California. After her miracle homecoming 22 days later, her story about what happened left more questions than answers. Was it a terrifying abduction? Or an elaborate hoax? Now the new one-hour documentary special REELZ INVESTIGATES takes viewers inside the twists, turns, truth and lies in the mysterious disappearance of Sherri Papini.
On the morning of December 23rd, 2015, just two days before Christmas, cherished wife and mother of two boys Connie Dabate was found brutally murdered, shot to death in her own basement in Ellington Connecticut. Connie’s husband Rick was also found tortured covered in blood. He reported the shocking story of a home invasion gone wrong, a masked intruder who had attempted to rob the family, shooting Connie twice in the process. The Dabates seemed like an idyllic family. Connie and Rick had been together for 12 years, they had two boys and on the surface were the picture of happiness. Connie was a pillar of the small close-knit community of Ellington and as a couple they were well liked and had lots of friends. But what people didn’t know about doting father and loving husband Rick was he had a double life, a second phone and a secret credit card that Connie knew nothing about and the case unfolds darker secrets emerge. A murder that shocked a community and ripped families apart. But, was this simply a tale of a home robbery gone tragically wrong? Who was in the Dabate house that day? What kind of person would murder a mother in cold blood just two days before Christmas? With the help of police investigation reports, the coroner’s autopsy and the technological data pulled from the Dabates’ cell phones and the Fitbit Connie was wearing that day, Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter deciphers the shocking truths of the case to uncover how and why this apparently senseless murder took place.
In the early hours of January 13th, 2018 beloved wife and mother Kathleen ‘Kat’ Dawn West was found dead across the street from her Calera, Alabama home. The crime scene was shocking. 42-year-old Kat was found partially nude with a blunt force trauma to her head lying next to her was a half full bottle of absinthe and her cell phone. Kat described herself as a full-time wife and Mommy who doted on her daughter Lola, aged 12 years old at the time. But what many people didn’t know is that Kat had a second online life quite at odds with her housewife persona. Kat was an avid social media user and in March 2016 she started using her online accounts to make money, initially posting links to items for sale but it was the sexy pictures of her modelling lingerie that helped her amass 52,000 Instagram followers under the provocative username ‘Kitty Kat West’. This led to Kat starting her own online business on the Onlyfans website and posting more explicit material. Kat’s double life was not a secret from her husband Jeff. Kat had been married to Jeff West for 14 years, on the surface they had a loving, open relationship but digging deeper there were issues in their marriage. Kat’s husband Jeff has been charged and convicted with her murder but the outcome remains controversial. Jeff has always claimed his wife died from a drunken accidental fall. Could Jeff have killed his wife? Did an online stalker murder Kat in cold blood? Was it a drunken accident? With the help of police investigation reports, first-hand accounts and the coroner’s autopsy report Dr. Michael Hunter unravels the mysterious case to uncover how and why Kat West died.
Two attractive young women attacked in their place of work, with one left dead and the other found bound and unconscious. Jayna Murray’s brutal murder, seemingly at the hands of blood thirsty masked intruders, sent the wealthy community of Bethesda, MD, into lockdown. This savage killing in a Lululemon sports clothes store would stun even the most case-hardened law enforcement professionals and forensic specialists. With its apparent sexual motive, and the sheer number of horrific injuries Jayna sustained as she tried to defend herself, this is a crime that stands out in its savagery. But as the details of this terrible murder are revealed, it will become clear that everything is not as it first seems, and forensic and crime scene evidence will turn this urgent investigation on its head. Utilizing the autopsy report, forensic evidence and first-hand accounts, Dr. Michael Hunter will uncover the facts behind this appalling murder, and by studying all the evidence of this mysterious case, he’ll shed light on the appalling truth of it, and explain how and why Jayna Murray died.
Steven Clayton appeared to have it all. Happily married and living in luxury on the shore of South Carolina’s Lake Wylie, the 64-year-old was enjoying his retirement after a successful career. But on June 21st, 2018, his wife Lana found him dead at the bottom of their stairs after a sudden illness, and immediately called for help. Attending responders initially determined it to be a death from natural causes, but family members grew suspicious that this was not the whole story. Four weeks later a homicide investigation began. Now, world renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter analyses the autopsy report and documents from the investigation to get to the truth of how Steven Clayton died.
A Live Series following Law Enforcement Officers On Patrol across the country – all live and in real time.
A discussion of what’s in store for the upcoming episode of “On Patrol: Live” and a sneak peek of the departments and officers that the cameras will be following that night; the hosts also look back at the most memorable moments from past episodes.
A Live Series following Law Enforcement Officers On Patrol across the country – all live and in real time.
A Live Series following Law Enforcement Officers On Patrol across the country – all live and in real time.
