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The Missing Heiress

Crime

50

Dec 30, 1999

In February of 1977, Helen Vorhees Brach walked out of the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and into the pages of Chicago folklore. The wealthy widowed heiress of the Brach Candy fortune was never seen again.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 13 episodes

Release Me chronicles the story of Texas killer Kenneth Allen McDuff who received the death sentence in 1966 for a murderous rampage that left three teen-agers dead. He was paroled years later only to kill again.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Pride and Joy focuses on Eric Napoletano who brutally murdered his victims, including his wife Myra. Napoletano eluded the law from New York to Albuquerque, New Mexico before he was finally arrested on March 27, 1991.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Young Love tells the story of a high school student whose overpowering obsession for his girlfriend led him to murder a rival for her affections in the parking lot of their high school in Fayetteville, Tennessee.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Life Father, Like Son,

This is the story of two young men whose paths tragically crossed on September 29, 1998 in Houston, Texas. One was a sheriff's deputy while the other, like his father, stayed on the wrong side of the law.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Every Parent's Nightmare,

This episode recounts a heinous crime that is every parent's nightmare, the death of a child. On an autumn evening in November 1998, a man randomly killed a 9-year-old boy in a public bathroom in southern California.

50m Dec 30, 1999

The Green Widow focuses on Mary Ellen Samuels, a woman whose lust for money and drugs led her to arrange for the 1988 murder of her husband, a successful Hollywood cameraman.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Lone Witness is the story of Buffalo, New York gang leader Donald “Sly” Green and a lone witness to a gangland slaying which helped bring Green to justice.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Deadly Revenge,

In the early ‘80s in southern Florida, a major war was declared on illegal drugs. One of the champions of that war was Assistant State Attorney Gene Berry.

50m Dec 30, 1999

The Missing Heiress,

In February of 1977, Helen Vorhees Brach walked out of the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and into the pages of Chicago folklore. The wealthy widowed heiress of the Brach Candy fortune was never seen again.

50m Dec 30, 1999

When a family outing in the mountains of picturesque Oregon ended with Joyce Boyd’s fatal fall off a 75-foot cliff, authorities called it an accident; that is, until they delved deeper into their investigation.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Robert Peernock was an expert in pyrotechnics who knew how to blow things up. But when he tried to kill his wife and daughter by rigging their car to explode, something backfired, and his daughter survived.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Deadly Commission,

Salvatore Thomas Ruscitti, a former policeman, was a well-liked and respected southern California car dealer.

50m Dec 30, 1999

Silent Partner,

Roy Radin was a successful New York theatrical producer with a knack for making money and a taste for the high life. His hopes for making it as a Hollywood producer ended abruptly in a remote canyon outside of Los Angeles.

50m Dec 30, 1999