City Confidential

7.0
19981h

Tells the story of one crime, the ensuing investigation, and the ripple effect it had on a community. Speaking with family, friends, detectives, journalists, and others close to the case, the series mixes firsthand accounts and archival footage to explore the crime and its outcome.

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City Confidential Returns To A&E Thursday, October 28 at 10pm ET/PT

Seasons

12 Episodes • Premiered 1998

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1. Deadly Odds in Biloxi

The shocking murders of attorney Vince Sherry and his politically-active wife Margaret make the already-hot summer of 1987 sizzle in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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2. The Chicago Horse Mafia

The deaths of a string of champion racehorses may be linked to the death of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach.

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3. Faith and Foul Play in Salt Lake City

Police investigate the bomb that blew apart the car of Mark Hoffmann, a highly respected and religious Mormon.

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4. Sunny Days, Deadly Nights on Mercer Island

A woman's naked body is found outside a Seattle nightclub, posed demurely with a pinecone in her hand.

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5. Secrets and Superstition in Salem

When a lobsterman discovers the ankle of a partially decomposed body in his trap, a local "witch" helps solve the crime.

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6. Midnight in Miami

Stan and Joyce Cohen were living the high life in chic, trendy Coconut Grove--until multi-millionaire Stan was shot to death with his own gun as he slept in his mansion. Did Joyce, a beautiful socialite with expensive tastes, hire three hit men to murder her husband? Did Stan pay the ultimate price for her greed?

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7. New Orleans: Betrayal in the Big Easy"

In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in her front yard after Len Davis, a police officer who did side-work in dealing cocaine, ordered her death because she knew too much.

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8. Nashville: Murder in Music City

Nashville performer and "Hee Haw" star David "Stringbean" Akeman had a strange habit. The banjo picker and joke teller kept $3,000 in cash in his overall's bib pocket, and ten times that hidden at home--cash for a rainy day. For Akeman and his wife, that rainy day never came. Murdered in 1973, their killers never found either stash.

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9. Little Rock: The Politics of Murder

In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers.

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10. Las Vegas: Deadly Jackpot

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11. Dallas: Arsenic and Old Money

Still image for City Confidential season 1 episode 12: Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun

12. Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun

Cast

Photo of Mike Colter

Mike Colter

Self - Narrator (voice)

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