FBI Files - The First Season

FROM THE PRODUCERS OF A HAUNTING AND THE NEW DETECTIVES!

Hard evidence. Hard Science. Real Justice. Whether it handles bullets or bombs, fingerprints or fibers, the FBIs crime lab - the largest facility in the world takes on tough cases, grappling with fraud, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder, extortion and terrorism.

In this award winning series, THE FBI FILES, TMG and New Dominion Pictures reveal for the first time the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling cases. From crime scene analysis to the most up-to date laboratories, FBI agents relentlessly comb through mountains of evidence to narrow their search, ultimately prevailing over the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.

Retired Special Agent and former Director in Charge James Kallstrom is your host in these true life stories of crime and detection, taking you behind the scenes with re-enactments and interviews with the actual participants and victims. From the Unabomber to the bombing of the World Trade Center, the abduction of Polly Klaas to the true story of John Gotti, the Teflon Don, THE FBI FILES brings you into the world of the FBI as it unravels some of the greatest criminal cases it has ever solved.

Disc 1

Polly Klaas Kidnapped:
When Polly Klaas is kidnapped from her home and murdered, the FBI mobilizes 200 agents to recover her and apprehend her abductor.

Above the Law:
The body of 23 year-old Robin Bishop is discovered near her car on a remote highway.  Despite efforts by local authorities, her killer remains loose until the FBI turns to forensic science to bring him to justice.

Human Prey:
When five outdoors men are killed over a period of three years in rural Ohio, the FBI relentlessly pursue leads and eventually prompt the killer to reveal himself.

Death in Alaska:
FBI forensic experts trace DNA to apprehend the killer who sexually abused and murdered a young mother and her two daughters in Alaska.

Disc 2

Deadly Paradise:
After a trip to Palmyra Atoll, Mac and Muff Graham vanish and another couple returns to Hawaii on the missing couples yacht. FBI agents and scientists struggle to uncover the truth behind a murder in paradise.

The True Story of Mississippi Burning:
When Ku Klux Klan members murder three civil rights workers in Mississippi, the FBI turns to a local informant who helps them secure justice for the victims.

The Crazy Don:
The reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, Vince Gigante, wanders the streets of New York wearing only pajamas and a bathrobe, but the FBI is convinced he is anything but crazy.

Killing Spree:
The lone survivor of a killing spree helps the FBI identify the killer who raped and murdered 10 women in the Tampa area.

Disc 3

The Murdering Cowboy:
The FBI is called into the case when self-described cowboy Claude Dallas kills two game wardens, setting off a massive manhunt.

The Unabomber:
Ted Kaczynski terrorizes the nation for 18 years as the Unabomber, baffling local and federal authorities until the FBI uses DNA from a postage stamp to track him to his remote cabin in Montana.

Melissa Brannen: Missing:
When 5 year-old Melissa Brannen, vanishes from a Christmas party in December 1984, the FBI is called in to look for the missing girl.

The World Trade Center Bombing:
On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocks the garage under the World Trade Center. Six people die and more than a thousand are injured in the bomb blast which tears a 5-story crater in the building. The FBI works to identify and convict the terrorists behind the bombing.

John Gotti Convicted:
The Teflon Don, as he was known, lost his luster as the head of the Gambino crime family in New York when the FBI turned to an informer to convict Gotti of the murder of Paul Castellano.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 16 Februari, 2009