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The Great Despisers

Documentary

PG-13

22

Dec 31, 2004

A man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother, and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and the movie The Great Despisers that motivated the killers to perpetrate such violence?

Season 2, 13 episodes

19-year-old Greg Parsons is convicted of brutally murdering his mother with evidence of the audiotape of a song he'd written, "Kill your Parents". After three years in prison, Parsons is released when DNA exonerates him.

Whistler, B.C. is a winter wonderland for the rich and trendy. Three people meet - the son of a wealthy Frenchman, a Vancouver businessman looking for investors, and a real estate agent trying to sell a mountainside estate.

A string of bank robberies in Winnipeg confound local police but sooner or later a thief's pattern will give him up. After setting up a dragnet and nabbing their man, police are shocked to discover who they've caught.

Head in a Bucket,

A woman is told by a friend that she was a passenger in a car where she was confronted with a guy's head in a bucket. But the story keeps changing and the woman retracts. As police dig deeper, they discover a sordid tale of power and intrigue.

Murder on Campus,

The bizarre murder of a world-renowned anthropologist shocks staff and students at the university. Police get a clue that a stranger described as a female Hulk was seen shortly before the murder inn a case stranger than fiction.

The Great Despisers,

A man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother, and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and the movie The Great Despisers that motivated the killers to perpetrate such violence?

A small-town school teacher fails to arrive for work for the first time in 30 years, leaving an empty house and a baffled community. The few clues that are found fail to shed much light on the mystery until police turn their attention to a neighbour.

Suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young Sikh man and a trail of bigamy, deceit, and murder is soon uncovered. Police detectives follow a trail and discover it leads all the way to India.

A trucker discovers the body of a dead East Indian woman in the woods. An autopsy reveals that she has been strangled, she has an unusually high level of sedatives in her bloodstream and, mysteriously, there are several pairs of burn marks on her skin.

Surgically clean body parts start turning up on a highway. Stranger still, they have been drained of every drop of blood. Police are able to connect the body parts to a missing 22-year-old violinist.

The wife of a successful jeweler is found in their home, stripped naked and beaten to death. The jeweler immediately falls under suspicion, but he's not alone. And under her fingernails is the DNA that will lead detectives to her killer.

When a senior citizen is killed on a city street, authorities treat it as a typical hit-and-run. But as they investigate further, they realize that the culprit is a thrill-seeking psychopath who intends to kill people.

Monster of Miramichi,

Firemen are called to put out a blaze and discover two sisters, one dead and the other on death's door. So begins one of the most gruesome and sadistic murder sprees in Canadian history.

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72 Hours: True Crime

Documentary

TV-14

3

22

True crime investigations in which the best chance to find vital clues is within 72 hours of the crime.

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