City Confidential — Season 1

Aired 7 November 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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