FBI Files

He Was One of Delaware's Most Powerful Lawyers. A Cooler That Wouldn't Sink Ended Everything

He was one of Delaware's most powerful lawyers, with ties to the governor's own office. When his secret relationship with the governor's young secretary turned deadly, he was confident he could make the evidence disappear — permanently, sixty miles...

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He Hunted Strangers With a Sniper Rifle to Start a Race War

Liberty Park Sniper: The Hunt for Joseph Paul Franklin | The FBI Files It was a warm summer evening in Salt Lake City. Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18, were jogging through Liberty Park with two white girlfriends. They were young. They were...

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Jack Unterweger Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI

Jack Unterweger: Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI | The FBI Files He was celebrated as a literary genius, a reformed man who had turned his life around behind bars. He walked red carpets, gave interviews, and rubbed shoulders with Vienna's...

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CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International Manhunt for Mir Amal Kanzi

It was a crisp winter morning in Langley, Virginia. Cars were lined up at a stoplight, waiting to turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters. Inside those vehicles were ordinary people—analysts, engineers, covert operatives—going about their...

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Glenn Rogers From Van Nuys Truck Fire to Room 119

A burned pickup truck in a Van Nuys hospital parking lot. A woman’s body inside, strangled before the flames ever touched her. A single earring. A lottery win. And a name that kept surfacing: Glenn Rogers. It began on the night of September 29, 1995,...

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Joseph Paul Franklin Liberty Park Sniper Manhunt

He was a ghost. A drifter. A man with no fixed address and no fingerprints on file. He moved across the country like a shadow, robbing banks to fund his travels and using a high-powered rifle to kill from a distance. He was not motivated by money. He...

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John Gotti’s Biggest Mistake Gave the FBI Exactly What They Needed | Full Episode

He was the most powerful mob boss in America. The head of the Gambino crime family. A man who walked the streets of New York like a king, wearing $2,000 suits and flashing a smile that dared the government to take him down. The press called him "The...

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The Cowboy Fantasy That Turned Into a Killing Spree

He wore cowboy boots and carried a hunting knife on his belt, calling himself by names lifted straight from western paperback novels. Behind the costume, FBI profilers concluded, was a man acting out a violent outlaw fantasy — one that cost...

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Five Minutes That Became the Bloodiest Day in FBI History

Eight FBI agents went out that morning expecting a routine arrest. Five minutes later, two were dead, five more were wounded, and one agent — already shot himself — fired the final rounds that ended it. After an eight-month investigation into a wave...

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The Shootout That Changed How Every FBI Agent Carries a Gun

Eight FBI agents. Two armed men. Less than five minutes. On a quiet residential street in Miami in April 1986, a routine vehicle stop turned into one of the deadliest days in FBI history. Michael Platt and William Matix, two former US Army servicemen...

Hunting Darren D. ONeill_ Robin Smith Mount Rainier and a Survivor

A vanished bride-to-be. A red Torino. A drifter with a teardrop tattoo. This is the manhunt that gripped the Pacific Northwest—and the FBI agent who refused to let it go cold. On the night of March 28, 1987, 22-year-old Robin Smith left a bar in...

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He Thought They Were Coming for Him — They Weren't

Two Boston police officers walked into an alley to check on a domestic dispute that had nothing to do with the man they encountered there. Ted Otsuki, a parolee with a violent past, assumed they were coming for him — and in a single, catastrophic...

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The Bookstore Owner Who Robbed Banks in a Fake Beard

By day, he ran a used bookstore and impressed customers with his knowledge of the classics. By night, he put on a fake beard, picked up an assault rifle, and robbed banks across suburban Chicago while his wife waited in the getaway car. Between 1990...

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The Bearded Bandit and His Bank Heists

A fake beard. A baseball cap. A police scanner in his hand. Between 1990 and 1991, one man walked into bank after bank across suburban Chicago, announced a hold-up with military precision, and vanished before anyone could stop him. Outside, his wife...

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Crimes That Pushed The FBI To Their Limit

An elderly woman battling cancer, vanished without a trace. An 86-year-old man and his wife, killed in their own home. A security guard, shot without warning while simply doing her job. In just one week, two killers — a 23-year-old ex-convict and his...

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Miami River Cops: Inside the Largest Police Corruption Case The FBI Files

July 28, 1985. The Miami River. A marine salvager pulls three bodies from the murky water—men dressed in designer clothes, guns still tucked into their waistbands, large bills stuffed in their pockets. They were Colombian drug smugglers. And they...

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Brother Against Brother in the Thomas Capano Case

Thomas Capano had everything. Wealth. Power. A prestigious law career. A beautiful family. He was a former prosecutor, a political insider, a man who moved through Delaware's elite circles with effortless charm. But behind the polished facade lurked a...

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The Most Violent Bank Robbery Of The Century The FBI Files

It was 3:40 p.m. on May 9, 1980, when five heavily armed men stormed into a Security Pacific Bank branch in Norco, California. But this was not a typical bank robbery. The men were not drug addicts desperate for a fix, nor professional thieves looking...

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Dangerous Takedown FULL EPISODE The FBI Files

A sledgehammer smashing through a front door in the dead of night. A Camden, New Jersey home invaded by two violent men. A shootout in a park that left a police officer nearly dead. And two suspects who vanished without a trace. For one year, they...

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The Rise and Fall of Harlems Deadliest Drug Gangs

Harlem has always been a battleground. But in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the war was not fought with politics or poetry—it was fought with heroin, crack, and blood. A succession of drug empires rose from the streets of Upper Manhattan, each more...

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