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- Godzilla's fiftieth Anniversary project, in which Godzilla travels around the world to fight his old foes and his allies plus a new, mysterious monster named Monster X.
- Crazy true stories, crimes, disasters, mysteries from around the world told in dramatized Japanese TV show.
- Bored Texas housewife Candy Montgomery started having an affair with family friend and married software engineer, Alan Gore in 1978. When Alan was away on business in 1980, something happened between Candy and Alan's wife, Betty, in the Gore home, that ended up with Betty murdered, struck by a bloody ax 41 times. What ensued was an unusual and controversial trial and verdict, one which brought up a childhood traumatic event in Candy's life that purported to explain her post traumatic stress and violent actions during a fight with the victim.
- On November 22, 2000, in Vista, California, Christopher Butler, Robert Ortiz and Christopher Huggins broke into the house of Michelle Ramskill-Estey, age 35, a Bank of America Manager. The three men's intention was to force her to open the bank and bring them what ended up being $360,000 in cash. To ensure that she did what they wanted, they strapped dynamite to Renee's 7 yr old daughter and an adult roommate, Kimbra Oliver. The robbers got away and no one was injured (the dynamite turned out to be fake). Police searched for the robbers and one was even profiled on the television show, America's Most Wanted.
- In February 1997, Charles "Crazy Charlie" Rodriguez and his brother, Joseph, are listed on "America's Most Wanted" for shooting at a police officer. While hiding from the law, they resort to robbing banks, but the robberies become more and more violent. So the FBI plan a sting to catch the brothers using an armored truck. They just have to get Jose to convince Charlie and Joseph to rob it.
- May 2005 - Punjab is a friendly 1,500 lb camel, owned by a man who collects exotic and ex-circus animals in Bethlehem, WV. When a woman comes to paint the fence, Punjab tries to cozy up to her, and accidentally steps on her foot while lying down, forcing her to the ground. Trapped by the weight of the animal, she calls 911. Paramedics Mark Hartman and Brent Hicks now have a dilemma. How to get the tame but massive animal upright without accidentally crushing the woman.
- Episode dealing with American Psychic Pam Coronado, who started using her psychic visions to help people in 1996. She has helped police departments locate missing people (living or dead) or find clues regarding unsolved crimes. Most famously, she accurately predicted many details of the Washington DC Beltway sniper case in 2002 before they were caught.
- 2000–TV Episode
- Linda Brown was found dead and her 14 year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confesses to the murder. Three years later, the truth comes out in a twisted love triangle.
- Man works hard to become successful in food service; unfortunately, his criminal past catches up with him to the dismay of his supervisors.
- A kindly Priest is falsely accused of a series of robberies. At his trial, one victim/witness after another identifies him as the perpetrator. Finally, out of shame that an innocent man is about to be convicted, the true perpetrator, who has been following the trial, comes forward to confess.
- A mentally unbalanced man, Paul Michael Stephani, attacks and kills a series of young women in the Minneapolis area between 1980 and 1982. After each attack, he has fits of anguish, remembering his childhood church attendance. He confesses "his sins", anonymously to a priest, as well as, making wild "weepy-voiced" phone calls to the police, incoherently advising them of the crimes committed. Ironically, the numerous calls to the police did not help them catch Stephani, who was apprehended because one of his victims fought back and survived, and Stephani was nabbed when he sought medical help for his own injuries. 20 years after his incarceration on another murder conviction, he formally confessed to the first killings.
- The story of Andrew Cunanan and his killing spree that included the murder of Gianni Versace, the world famous fashion designer, and ended with him taking his own life on a boat in Florida.
- On October 15, 1996, the New River Health District was informed that a large number of patients were being admitted with pneumonia. Six days later, Legionnaire's Disease was confirmed in 23 patients, two of whom died. The team of investigators must find out where the bacteria is coming from.
- The parents of a little Michigan girl notice extreme rashes and bleeding sores when she comes in contact with certain items and foods. Doctors just dismiss the symptoms as simple eczema. After attending a party where the theme was Blue, and everything, the decorations, the cake, the food were all blue, the girl went into shock and had to be rushed to the hospital. It was then that her parents realized that she was allergic to blue dyes, but the doctors didn't believe them initially, since at the time they had never heard of a blue dye allergy before.
- March 22, 2005 - A Las Vegas resident, Anna Ayala, while visiting San Jose, California, claimed she found a severed human finger in her bowl of chili, purchased at Wendy's - a national fast food chain. Though her intent was to sue the company, the intense public interest and scrutiny by police soon turned the spotlight back on Ayala. Ayala was later suspected of planting the finger and arrested by Las Vegas Police. Wendy's restaurant chain lost an estimated $2.5 Million in revenue from the bad publicity of the hoax, an amount which Ayala may be liable for.
- 2000–TV Episode"The miracle liver transplant" Michelle Shmitt: A 3 year old girl in desperate need of a liver transplant is unable to get to the airport due to terrible weather conditions. 17 inches of snow trap the family while the local radio station reaches out for any kind of help the community can offer. In response, a woman gathers a small group of people to shovel snow from a church parking lot to create a heliport. The group of six expands to over 200 while courageous pilots offer helicopter and plane assistance to fly the girl to Omaha. "Triangular Murder Case" Two individuals in love with the same women are murdered within a span of 3 months back in winter of 1975 in Yakima, Washington. The intricate case, eventually becoming a novel written by Ann Rule (Fever in the Heart) unravels itself in a tragic way. "Tuffy" Pleasant murders Morris Blackenbaker as a favor for his former wrestling coach, "Gabby" Moore. Gabby, who was in love with Morris's wife, finds himself as a chief suspect in the shooting of Morris. In order to clear things up and "win" Morris's wife over, he asks Tuffy to shoot him in the upper shoulder. The shot ricochets off of his fourth rib into his lung and heart. Gabby was unintentionally killed by Tuffy, and Tuffy is eventually sentenced for first degree murder and manslaughter.
- The son of a US Air Force Colonel, David Dowler led a relatively normal life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, except for his fanciful and fictional tales of being a former spy and contract killer. Most people laughed off his tall tales as the ramblings of a friendly eccentric. However Dowler concocted a more deadly scheme - he would be a psychic who could predict other people's deaths. Between 1983 and 1987, several of Dowler's friends and co-workers would be found dead. They would all be discovered by loved ones that received a phone call from Dowler, who would claim to have psychic abilities and 'sensed' that something was wrong. Though the early deaths were ruled 'accidental', police started getting suspicious of Dowler as the body count grew higher.
- On March 11th, 2005, Brian Nichols was on trial for rape at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. When being transfered from a holding room, he overpowered a diminutive Female Deputy, took her gun and used it to kill three people; a court reporter, Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and a deputy who tried to stop him from leaving the courthouse. His escape set off one of the largest manhunts in Georgia history.
- Episode detailing the infamous 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping case, where famous aviator Charles Lindbergh's infant son was kidnapped and killed. The episode also outlines the controversy in the trial, defense and conviction of the only suspect, Bruno Hauptmann. Hauptmann was executed for the crime four years after the kidnapping, all the while proclaiming his innocence.
- On September 30, 1979, Kevin Lee Green is convicted of killing his wife and sentenced to 15 years to life. 17 years later, with new technology, they decide to check DNA samples from Green's case. They don't match Green's, but another convict, Gerald Parker, serving time for rape. While interviewing Parker, he confesses to the murder. Kevin Green is freed after spending 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
- 2000–TV EpisodeIn September 2003, Jamie Luketic, a junior at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, was competing in an invitational when a freak accident occurred. A fellow track runner in front of her kicked up a stone that flew up in the air and lodged perfectly in her throat, choking her. After she fell to the field, no one knew that anything was wrong. A recently hired coach from another school, Mark McClure, was watching and saved her with a Heimlich Maneuver.
- A young Nicuaraguan single-mother, Esmarcia Navarro, marries a wealthy and much older American man. Once married she begins 'living the high life' with her husband's wealth. He decides to hire someone to kill her, but police are on to his plans. They create an elaborate sting operation, which requires a makeup artist to fake a realistic 'death', in order to catch the architect of this murder for hire scheme.
- 2000–TV Episode
- In the Summer of 1990 in Gainesville, Florida, police were baffled by a series of gruesome and sexually based murders. When the death toll of young college students, mostly young women, went up to five, the press dubbed the unknown assailant as "The Gainesville Ripper", a moniker the police disliked. Despite the police's persistent surveillance of an innocent man, Edward Humphrey, the real killer, Danny Harold Rolling was eventually caught, tried and executed. He later confessed to more unsolved murders before his death by lethal injection on October 25, 2006.
- An episode dealing with the grim and extremely convoluted tragedy of School teacher, Susan Reinert, whose body was found nude, gagged, bound and tortured, and had probably witnessed the murder of her two children before her own demise in the summer of 1979. However, the trials revealed a complex con and the possibility of a frame job against the Principal of Reinert's school, Jay Smith, all concocted by fellow teacher Bill Bradfield. Bradfield was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, whereas Jay Smith, was released in 1992 after a Supreme court ruling that the prosecution acted improperly at his trial, by withholding evidence that could have exonerated Smith.