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S1 E114 Hostage

Documentary

PG-13

22 minutes

Dec 31, 2003

A man robs an armoured car at gunpoint and holds a massage parlor worker hostage. As police investigate, they find startling links to a series of robberies, all taking place during the Christmas season.Featuring: Diane D'Aquila (narrator), Santino Buda, John Blackwood, David Stratton, David MacNiven, Shannon Barnett, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Zoe Mugford, Bill Lake, Roland Rothchild

Season 1, 20 Episodes

72 Hours: True Crime - Burning Obsession

Burning Obsession,

In 1988, a promiscuous 22-year old boy from the Sikh community has one affair too many and ends up losing his life. Diligent detective work and DNA help police nail the killer.

72 Hours: True Crime - Who Killed Santa?

Who Killed Santa?,

In 2001, there are a series of murders of homeless people in Toronto. The latest killing is of a gentle man, well known in the area by residents who nicknamed him Santa Claus.

72 Hours: True Crime - Angel of Death

Angel of Death,

An angel of mercy turns out to be an angel of death when the number of deaths in an Indiana Intensive Care Unit skyrockets. One astute nurse believes there must be more to this.

72 Hours: True Crime - The Ghost

A cunning arsonist stays one step ahead of the police and terrifies a small farming community until behavioural profiling help detectives zero in on a very unlikely suspect.

72 Hours: True Crime - Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness Monster,

In 1998, in a normally peaceful suburb, a pervert on a bicycle appears, performing sexual acts on himself and then attacking teenage girls. For reasons apparent to the residents, they nickname him after the Scottish Loch Ness monster.

72 Hours: True Crime - Mad Bomber

In 1996 a serial bomber begins planting bombs in public places and terrorizes the Prince Edward Island community. The mystery person leaves a strange swastika as a calling card, eluding capture for eight years.

72 Hours: True Crime - Double Cross

The investigation of the murder of a shady Montreal businessman takes detectives into the lurid underworld of drug dealers, con men, and crooked lawyers.

72 Hours: True Crime - Hijacked

In 1971, before the era of airport security, a Black Panther hijacks a plane to Havana, Cuba. A thirty-year-old cold case is finally solved in 2002 by a fluke of modern technology.

72 Hours: True Crime - Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under,

In a Toronto suburb during the summer of 1996, a man leaves home for a business trip. He doesn't return. Fearing foul play, his desperate wife finally reports her husband's disappearance to the police.

72 Hours: True Crime - Nightmare

Every woman's worst nightmare comes to life when a bearded sexual predator starts attacking women in the safety of their own apartments while they are sleeping.

72 Hours: True Crime - The Saint

A frat boy lures a girl to his house with the promise of a party, but once there it turns out he has ulterior motives. A string of violence is finally uncovered, revealing a sinister trail of crime and violence.

72 Hours: True Crime - Danger in the Woods

Danger in the Woods,

Three teenagers accompany a deliveryman to a densely wooded area for a drinking party that becomes a nightmare. While examining the scene, police are surprised to stumble upon a previous crime.

72 Hours: True Crime - Hate Crime

A young Orthodox Jewish man is in Pittsburgh to celebrate Passover with family when he is gunned down simply because of the way he is dressed.

72 Hours: True Crime - Hostage

A man robs an armoured car at gunpoint and holds a massage parlor worker hostage. As police investigate, they find startling links to a series of robberies, all taking place during the Christmas season.

72 Hours: True Crime - Secret Life

In Calgary, Alberta, a beautiful Ethiopian woman is found brutally strangled. The victim's husband seems genuinely distraught over his wife's death, but there is something strangely suspicious about him.

72 Hours: True Crime - Flying Bandit

In 1986, an American becomes one of Canada's most prolific bank and jewelry bandits after he pulls off one of the biggest heists in Canadian history.

72 Hours: True Crime - Cold Hit

In 1994, a troubled single mother is found raped and murdered in her apartment. Was it one of the volatile men in her life? All possible suspects are eliminated and the case goes cold for three years.

72 Hours: True Crime - Kidnapped

A wealthy Asian girl is kidnapped in Vancouver. When the kidnappers make the fateful error of using the young girl's cell phone, police are able to track their movements and capture the assailants.

72 Hours: True Crime - Lone Wolf

Two murders of mothers in their own homes send shock-waves through a normally quiet and friendly town where everybody leaves their doors unlocked. The crimes go unsolved until twenty-eight years later.

72 Hours: True Crime - The Game

1995 - Houston, Texas. A lonely man calls a dating service and gets more than he bargained for when he is met at gunpoint and robbed by his dates. Who are they, and who is the mysterious puppet-master behind their actions?

Details

72 Hours: True Crime

Documentary

TV-14

3 Seasons

22 minutes

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

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