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In 1999, When he was hired as a rookie reporter for Yomiuri Shimbun. As a cadet, he describes being taken under the wing of Sekiguchi, an older detective. Adelstein was initially assigned to "tacky" Saitama, and the memoir covers his next 12 years as a staffer for the paper, describing 80-hour work weeks, relationship difficulties, and the interactions between crime reporters and the police. Specific cases involve the search for the killer of Lucie Blackman, and the memoir also details death threats after he published an expose on Tadamasa Goto. He also uncovered that Saitama Prefecture was altering scientific data on dioxin contamination.
Centers around heartbroken Anna (Bell), for whom every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder Or did she?
Four-part drama based on the extraordinary story of how prison officer John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons.
Tells the story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
In the early 20th century, this was a residential neighborhood for the Japanese elite in Taipei, and it retained its Japanese character even after World War II, becoming the favorite haunt of Japanese businessmen from the 1960s as it evolved into a nightlife hotspot complete with a red-light district. Even today, Tiaotong's bars, restaurants, karaoke lounges and nightclubs have an authentic Japanese flavor that continues to draw tourists and locals.
The Rising is the story of Neve Kelly (Rugaard), who discovers that she is dead. She's scared and confused by this new existence. But, when she realizes she has been murdered, she's furious. She's determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew. Impulsive and restless, Neve regrets never leaving her isolated community. And, as she comes to terms with her abilities, she begins to destabilize the lives of those she left behind. Particularly her estranged father, Tom (Matthew McNulty) and her beloved mother Maria (Emily Taaffe). Neve is a disruptive, unsettling hero who should not exist, and she needs to find her purpose. She takes us through the investigation into her death, going where the police can't. In the process she uncovers deeply buried secrets and is forced to re-examine everything about her life and the people she cared about. With nothing to lose but time, Neve will push for the truth even when it hurts. Her return forces everyone around her to change, confess, or start covering their tracks. But, it also reveals that there are others like her out there.
A crisis-stricken, morally-compromised first-responder tackles a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool while trying to keep his head above water personally and professionally.
The rich and powerful take what they want, and the Leverage team is back to take them down. Sophie Devereaux, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison and Parker have watched the world change over the last eight years. It's become easier, and sometimes legal, for the rich to become richer and the powerful to squash anyone who gets in their way. Sadly down one team member, they find new blood in Harry Sullivan, a corporate lawyer who is looking for redemption after realizing he'd been sitting on the wrong side of the table for his entire career. In this new world, the team will use their collective skills to take down a new kind of villain. From the man who created an opioid crisis from the comfort of his boardroom, to the woman who prefers to deport workers instead of paying them, to the shadowy security firm that helps hide dangerous secrets for a price, when someone needs help, they provide...Leverage.
Benson and the Special Victims Unit race against time to sentence a powerful congressman to life in prison for using his political connections to sell girls, but the case may be more difficult than they anticipated. When Benson's allegiance to Garland is put to the test because of the unsuccessful Javon Brown case, she is presented with a difficult choice. When Chief McGrath assigns Detective Joe Velasco to the investigation, he joins the SVU team. Benson's life is also in risk as a result of a strange car accident.
At the beginning of this new season, Blake Morris, a black man, is accused of harassing a mother and her son in Central Park and of sexually abusing a male. The Special Victims Unit is called to the scene. The man insists he is innocent even though he has been charged. The Special Victims Unit is sued shortly after the innocent man is exonerated after a new suspect is identified, which makes the case much more challenging as the public loses faith in law enforcement.
An aspiring teenage actress accused powerful media magnate Sir Tobias Moore of trying to rape her, and the Special Victims Unit is looking into the claim. The investigation grows intensive, and Benson soon finds herself and Moore engaged in a game of cat and mouse. Benson is promoted to Captain by Dodds, who is sent to the Traffic and Safety Task Force in Staten Island, and Carisi takes over as the precinct's new deputy district attorney. In the meanwhile, significant changes occur inside the Special Victims Unit precinct.
After a teenage boy is sexually attacked, the Special Victims Unit is called. The situation for the investigators is tricky because although he has proof but is too afraid to identify his attacker. When the attacker's identity is revealed, the investigators make every effort to keep the adolescent from suffering abuse once more. Rollins confides in Benson about her second pregnancy while simultaneously having a conversation with her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with an escort. Benson expresses concern to Tutuola about her diminished strength and speed.
A rapist on the run in Havana, Cuba is reported to the Special Victims Unit. Fin captures him by crossing international lines, which prompts political uproar when Fin is charged with abducting the criminal. Benson must rely on one victim (Amy Smart) to help catch the offender while all of his victims are afraid to testify. Benson learns of the startling claims made against her, and as a result, Brian Cassidy, her ex-boyfriend, a former SVU detective, returns to her life to look into her behavior and the allegations made against her.
Lt. Benson pulls a gun on her when he discovers a youngster wandering alone in Central Park. As they carry out a planned terrorist strike at the park, the SVU team tracks down the boy's parents. The boy's mother claims that she was forced to carry out the crime because she was raped and beaten for five years by the father and his brother until the father was murdered by police in a gunfight during an event in Central Park. Over the mother's allegations, Benson and Barba are at odds, with Benson advocating for mercy. Deputy Chief Dodds, who is inconsolable, accuses Benson of getting his son killed.
When a second body comes ashore, the SVU go back to the beach where serial killer Gregory Yates buried his victims. ADA Barba must deal with the potential that Yates could challenge his conviction in court after Detective Rollins visits Yates in jail to try to get a confession, but Rollins instead gives the squad evidence that points them in the direction of a new suspect. When Yates' fiancée's dismembered body is found washed up on the shore, the SVU team decides to conduct a further investigation into his murders. The Deputy Chief M.E. Carl Rudnick, who omitted disclosing his prior relationship with Yates, is the next person the clues point to.
Detective Amaro, who is currently a beat cop in Queens, detains a young prostitute who confesses to having witnessed Ellie Porter, the mother of Sergeant Benson's foster kid Noah, being killed. In response to Benson's request for Amaro to go undercover, a chain of events occurs that put everyone involved in danger, including the unborn child Noah. Benson meets Detective Carisi, the newest member of the squad, who had a rocky start. Carla Cannon, a press representative for the Orion Bay apparel company, claims to have been raped by basketball star Shakir "The Shark" Wilkins.
The Special Victims Unit resorts to drastic tactics to find her and her kidnapper, William Lewis, as the hours turn into days and there is still no word from Detective Benson. They worry that it might be too late as Benson struggles for her life and her squad chases a trail of rape and murder victims throughout Long Island. In the second episode, when Benson returns from her two-month absence, the SVU is led to more victims in a home's basement by an abandoned toddler in Times Square. Benson struggles to convince herself that she is prepared to return to the job despite the doubts of Captain Cragen and her new therapist Dr. Lindstrom as they work to solve the case that has been open for ten years.
The Special Victims Unit is in disarray as a result of Captain Cragen waking up in his bed next to a deceased escort who may have been a witness in an SVU investigation. The investigation against Cragen by Bureau Chief ADA Paula Foster and the entrance of a tough new captain, Steven Harris, have raised tensions within the station. As an undercover officer for Bart Ganzel's escort company, Brian Cassidy walks an increasingly narrow line as Detective Amaro struggles with the case and his marriage.
The Special Victims Unit officers are sent to the site when a hotel maid complains that an Italian ambassador abused her. The high-profile case is being prosecuted by Bureau Chief ADA Cutter and ADA Cabot. As the maid's character is publicly questioned, the case quickly becomes increasingly challenging. While Detective Benson struggles to deal with the effects of the shooting in the precinct, Detective Amanda Rollins, an Atlanta-based detective, joins the Manhattan SVU. An ex-player accuses the coach of sexually abusing him as a child and the longtime coach is honored by past pupils by being inducted into the Metro Basketball Hall of Fame.
Detectives Benson and Stabler look into the disappearance of a foster couple's ten-year-old adopted daughter. They quickly learn that she fled in order to meet with Erik Weber, a man she met online. Benson and Stabler believe Weber is interested in the girl for other reasons, but he denies any wrongdoing, which is proven, and shows interest in Benson romantically. The detectives' discovery that the girl's foster parents had a second child as their inquiry progresses completely alters the direction of the case.
Officer Nate Kendall helps a woman in need and is then drawn into investigating a rape. Due of his erratic demeanor, detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson think Kendall is not the proper candidate for the case. ADA executive When Sonya Paxton joins the squad, she brings proof of a pattern connecting three earlier rape cases. Detective Stabler, who 10 years ago detained the primary suspect in the rapes, now understands that the victim's interracial identification was false and that he unjustly imprisoned an innocent man for 25 years. Even after apprehending the true rapist, the detectives are unable to obtain the desired outcomes.
From the acclaimed filmmakers behind The Imposter, this three-part series tells the jaw-dropping story of one of the world's most audacious conmen who was convicted in 2005 for stealing fortunes and destroying multiple lives. But now, in an incredible twist, the story reaches into the present day, with a desperate family who fear for their mother's safety.
When a young boy is found operating a runaway vehicle, detectives Benson and Stabler look into claims of child abuse. The boy recounts how his foster parents bribe him in exchange for abusive medical testing. Detective Benson is brought back to a rape victim while she studies the allegations he is making. The detectives learn a difficult relationship between the two cases after studying them, and they also meet Kim Greylek, SVU's new ADA, who instantly butts heads with everyone. Benson, who is troubled by terrifying recollections of being sexually abused, makes the decision that she needs assistance and seeks counseling.
It is believed that a woman who can adopt five distinct personalities hurt her daughter. The investigation initially encounters pushback from her psychiatrist over the investigation. The two of them are the main suspects after their parents are found killed the day after the woman's sister is freed from prison. A girl who participates in online gaming vanishes. It is found that her boyfriend, a suspect in the case, had sexsomnia, which is what motivated him to try to rape her sister. Detectives Benson and Stabler utilize the girl's avatar to find her kidnapper in an effort to find the girl.
A young woman arrives in the emergency room of a hospital battered and with her head shaved. She requests merely a morning-after pill and declines a rape kit despite obvious symptoms of sexual assault. She returns to her apartment after being accosted on the street by Benson, locks herself in the toilet, and then leaves her underwear there for Benson to take as proof. By speaking with a friend of the woman's at the cooperative where she works, Benson and Stabler attempt to determine who assaulted the woman. FBI Agent Dana Lewis discloses her crucial part in a sting operation against an eco-terrorism cell after she goes missing.
Ray Schenkel is released from prison twenty years after being found guilty of raping a teenage girl, much to the dismay of a retired detective. When a teenage girl is sexually assaulted along the route Schenkel would have traveled home, Stabler poses as a freshly released sex offender to gain access to the same halfway house and group as Schenkel. Cragen is concerned that Stabler might be getting in over his head. Benson rescues a pregnant woman who claims to be a rape victim who had considered killing herself from a rooftop. She appears to die in an explosion as the unit charges her alleged attacker and the baby's father.
The SVU investigators look into a six-year-old girl's attempted abduction. A private investigator who was hired by a woman who believes she is the girl's biological mother is discovered to be the one responsible for the attempt. A custody dispute between the mother of the egg donor and the birthparents results from this claim that a fertility specialist had a plan to kidnap embryos and give them to various parents. The disappearance of a mother is the subject of an investigation by Benson and Stabler after a child abandonment incident.
Annika Bergeron, a high-risk expectant mother, is abducted right before her due date. When they find out that the father Daniel Lester is dating Melinda Granville, whose mother Rose Granville is determined to make sure the connection lasts, a number of suspects become clear. The apparent victim of a school shooting that took two lives was actually the shooter, according to detectives Benson and Stabler. After hearing from the boy's mother about his psychiatric issues, the squad concludes that a significant pharmaceutical corporation is also to blame.
The detectives are called to the scene where a sex worker was shot with his own gun in self defense during a raid at a men's club and are on the hunt for the newly paroled rapist who committed the murder. But while he was still in jail, the murder weapon was also used in another crime, which prompted the investigators to look into the victim through a series of unresolved cases, a spending binge, and another victim. Detectives look into a kindergartener's family portrait that leads them to believe that her mother may have molested her adolescent stepson.
When Megan Ramsey, then eighteen, is helped by a therapist to remember being molested by her father as a child, she tells detectives Benson and Stabler about the incest in the hopes that it may prevent her younger sisters from going through the same ordeal. Her mother first does not believe her, but as time goes by, but eventually her entire family turns on the father despite his protests, which are aided by the discovery of tainted evidence. After the father is killed, the entire frail family is made a suspect. In the end, it is established that Megan is a virgin and that her therapist faked the memory of the rape.
Maureen Stabler, the daughter of Stabler, sees the gruesome crime scene of a man being burned to death. Interesting findings come from the internal examination of the SVU detectives' minds. Fin Tutuola is appointed as Monique Jeffries' replacement, and she is transferred to desk duties and taken off active duty. As a permanent Assistant District Attorney for the sex crimes division, Cabot joins the SVU team. A woman who was discovered in the park shows signs of a viciously assault. Her name is Nafeesa Amir, and her father is the Afghan diplomat Saleh Amir. The detectives discover during their inquiry that Nafeesa and her brother Jaleel were brought up in accordance with Taliban customs, where disobedience is met with a "honor killing."
When Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, two detectives from the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, look into the stabbing and castration of a cab driver, they discover that the victim had bought a fake hack license from a convict (Matt Skollar) at Rikers Island. The victim was a Serbian soldier called Stefan Tanzic, who had been charged with racial cleansing, according to further inquiry. Benson, who was raped as a child, finds it difficult to distance herself from the situation after learning that the victim was the rapist. In her attempts to defend suspects who, in her opinion, were justified in their acts, Stabler tries to prevent her from going too far.
Detective Elliot Stabler, played by the renowned Christopher Meloni, is back for a gripping new season that delves into New York's criminal underworld. Detective Stabler (Christopher Meloni) must infiltrate a prominent crime family looking to control New York City's cocaine trade after dismantling Wheatley's (Dylan McDermott) drug business and finding the assassin of his wife. When Stabler's mother unexpectedly comes up, his allegiance is tested at both work and home. Bell mulls over a proposal from Congressman Kilbride as Jet enters the field to gather crucial intelligence for the team.
Elliot Stabler will once again be played by Christopher Meloni. After suffering a tragic loss, Elliot Stabler rejoins the NYPD to fight organized crime. In contrast, the city and police force have undergone significant change in the ten years he has been absent, and he must now adjust to a criminal justice system that is going through its own moment of truth. Bell and Stabler appoint two new members to the task force and look into two crimes that seem unconnected in the hopes that they may be linked to their case.
A devoted and mild-mannered British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in England.
The real crimes that have been sewn into the fashion industry but are seldom heard about.
Chase McDonald and August Brooks' homicide investigations are followed in L.A. Heat. Chase is constantly looking for action and loves the rush that adrenaline provides. The experienced police officer August acts as the voice of reason for his young pal. They work together to clean up Los Angeles' streets in an effort to make the city safer. Chase becomes embroiled in intrigue in Chinatown after being falsely accused of murder in a plot by vindictive thugs determined to make the cop humiliated. Neo-Nazi protests in front of an African American church result in violence.
When August Brooks and a number of cops are surrounded by criminals in a deadly shootout, Detectives Chase McDonald and August Brooks cross paths. They are given a case to find a bomber who has caused a string of explosions in an effort to alert people to the advancements in technology as soon as the situation is under control. At August's gym, Chase and August help teenagers get off the streets and out of gangs by volunteering their time. The investigators work to stop one of the children from killing a member of a rival gang who murdered the boy's brother.
Follows the story of a seemingly happy husband and father who unexpectedly jumped off a bridge in 1977, and years later it's found that there might had been hypnosis, secret identities and a dangerous double life and law-breaking involved.
Alhaja Eniola Salami starts anew and sets her sights on a different position of power, fueled by revenge, regret and ruthlessness.
In 2005, thieves tunnel into a Fortaleza, Brazil, bank vault and steal over 160 million reais. This docuseries explores that spectacular, historical heist.
Follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case, the three unravel the complex secrets of the building which stretch back years. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living amongst them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it's too late.
Miguel Palacios (Minujn), a former police officer, is arrested in San Onofre as a criminal with a fictitious name (Pastor) and a manufactured reason. Its purpose is to infiltrate the prison's prisoner and guard network. Michael's goal is to find the kidnappers and find the child, since the organization has just taken the adolescent daughter of a renowned judge in the country. Michael seeks to flee after discovering he is being held hostage at a detention facility. In the absence of witnesses who know his actual identity and in the midst of thieves and assassins, Miguel quickly understands that running is the only way to preserve his life and restore their belief in him.
Season 5 of no Evil tells The documentary See No Evil shows how horrifying crimes are solved through investigative work and security cameras. Investigators use video cameras to piece together the jigsaw of these crimes, which range from a porch gunshot to a hotel crime. Louise Dickey, a music lover, is found brutally killed in a bath of her own blood on March 29, 2016, With no suspects and no witnesses, investigators check for surveillance cameras to unearth the horrifying reality. James Enright, 27, is stabbed to death at a busy railway station in Burnaby, Canada, on Valentine's Day, 2015, Police struggle to identify his killer despite mobile phone footage of the incident, until CCTV leads them to an unusual candidate.
In Death in Paradise Season 8, A passenger is stabbed to death on the express bus to Honore. Jack and his team are baffled by the case, as no one left his seat on the bus - so how on earth was the murder committed?DI Richard Poole of Scotland Yard is sent to the Caribbean island of Sainte Marie to investigate the death of a fellow officer. As a result, he is sent to the local police department as the officer's replacement. Poole exhibits his ability as an investigator by solving a number of complex cases. He's not quite suited to island living and dislikes the pace, as well as the heat and sand; he also dislikes seafood. Aside from that, the facility is excellent. Different English and Irish police officers, Humphrey Goodman, Jack Mooney, and Neville Parker, lead the investigative team in subsequent episodes.
Rebe hosts an intimate house warming party for her friends, but the situation takes a dramatic turn with the help of drugs and unexpected visitors.
Season 1 of Evil Lives Here tells the story of For the first time, Robbie Hawkins' father and stepmother speak out on camera about his heinous crime. Though Ronald Hawkins and Candace Sims had suspected Robbie was different from a young age, they were unprepared for the violent act that Robbie would commit, a crime that shocked the entire country.When Sheila Janutolo first married Jim Cruz, she despised the fact that his job required him to be away from her so frequently. But Jim didn't seem to share my sentiments. He'd never called home, and he'd told her there was no way to contact him while he was on the road. He began returning from his trips in a foul mood...and with a violent temper. Sheila dreaded being alone in the house with him, and she felt more trapped with each passing day. But when she got the call years later that he'd been arrested, she knew the cops had the wrong man. He couldn't have been committing the heinous crimes they were accusing him of during all of her husband's absences.
Briscoe and Detective Ed Green start their investigation into the origin of the murder weapon after a murderer's shooting spree in Central Park; McCoy makes it his goal to bring charges against both the murderer and the gun maker. Briscoe, Green, and McCoy are convinced that a 10-year-old is to blame for a child's death and that she needs to be secluded in order to prevent any more tragedies. McCoy's case is hampered by her refusal to accuse her husband during the trial, when Briscoe and Green's investigation into the shooting of Denise Grobman, a judge, rapidly points to her husband Walter as the person who ordered the assassination.
The carjacker who killed teacher Maureen Rankin while she begged for her life on an audio clip found at the scene will be prosecuted as brutally as possible, according to McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross. The police attempt to identify a body left in an elevator, and McCoy later discovers that his prosecution of the defendant is complicated by a vengeful judge who takes offense with Ross's in-court censure for sexual harassment. Charlie Monroe, a young black guy, was killed, and his incensed parents are pressuring McCoy to arrest Danielle Mason, a young lady who claims the victim had raped her. Briscoe and Curtis must break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they look for the perpetrator.
Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women. The film intimately charts her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.
Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, he is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York, Iron Lake, far from his original home in Miami.
Go inside the world of gaming as a group of friends are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. For the next 18 hours they are on the hunt to find out the real identity and location of one of their closest friends who claims to have killed his family and to put an end to his killing spree.
Season 3 of Silent Witness tells Dr. Sam Ryan examines instances involving the death of a close friend, domestic violence and abuse, drug gangs, and the Army in Northern Ireland in her obsessive search of truth and justice. Sam's acquaintance, a top lecturer at a Cambridge college, is found dead. DI Connor and DS Bradley, two new investigators, suspect Annabelle's husband. Sam is inspired to investigate the army cover-up of a murder in Northern Ireland in 1985 after a farming accident. Sam Ryan believes that local farmer Phil Nelson died as a result of a fall.Sam is emotionally involved with DI Michael Connor, yet she continues to investigate two strange deaths. Helen's entrance demonstrates that she is more concerned with her work.
In 1970s NYC, the "Torso Killer" preys on women to fulfill his grotesque fantasies while eluding police. A docuseries dive into crime's darkest places.
The crime shocked Brazil: Elize Matsunaga shot and dismembered her rich husband. Featuring her first interview, this docuseries dives deep into the case.
Season 4 of Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators tells the narrative of Frank and Lu helping to discover a mole within the local tech business Forosa. Frank and Lu are introduced to the competitive world of ballroom dancing, which is filled with passion and jealously, as well as the hazards of falling in love with one's dance partner. A affluent member of the local trainspotting group approaches Frank and Lu. When one of the walkers is murdered and Frank becomes the leading suspect, a lovely Shakespeare stroll quickly turns to catastrophe. Frank and Lu are recruited to uncover the identity of the "Voice in the Dark," who threatens to destroy Wintermas; Sebastian is assigned his first solo job.
Follows Tommy Egan after he cuts ties and puts New York in his rear-view mirror for good.
Season 8 of Father Brown tells Our favorite Catholic crime investigator returns to investigate the murder of an eccentric beekeeper, a crisis at Mrs. McCarthy's family reunion, and a race against time to save Bunty from the gallows. Every Tuesday, new episodes are released. Mrs McCarthy wins at church bingo thanks to the help of a fortune teller. must discover who is plotting to kill a struggling artist before it is too late A gossip journalist is slain after threatening to divulge the secrets of a fashion firm. Father Brown joins forces with Chief Inspector Valentine to solve a murder investigation at Helmsley House.
Jimmy Savile once ruled the airwaves with a quirky persona and good works. So how did this icon manage to hide his many alleged bad deeds for so long?
Season 2 of Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators chronicles the story of when a spoiled pet escapes from a life of luxury, Frank and Lu are entrusted with finding him. When a LARP combat in the woods goes awry, Lu and Frank are tasked with clearing the queen's name and apprehending the perpetrator. Frank and Lu investigate a missing person's case in a casino where gambling is a life or death situation. When an amnesiac comes into Frank and Lu's lives, they must figure out what happened to him. Frank and Lu are sent to investigate a death threat at Runningbrook, an upscale tennis club that conceals a hazardous menace. When Frank and Lu are on the trail of a local conman, they come across a couple of lethal criminals and make some odd allies.