• 458
    watchers
  • 3.0k
    plays
  • 1.3k
    collected
  • 2
    lists

The Crimes that Changed Us

Season 1 2020 - 2021

  • 2020-11-13T03:00:00Z on Investigation Discovery
  • 43m
  • 5h 44m (8 episodes)
  • United States
  • English, French
  • Documentary, Crime
The stories of murder investigations and their extraordinary consequences, which overturned laws, transformed police interrogation and revolutionised forensic detection.

8 episodes

Series Premiere

2020-11-13T03:00:00Z

1x01 Andrea Yates

Series Premiere

1x01 Andrea Yates

  • 2020-11-13T03:00:00Z43m

Andrea Yates appears to have the perfect family. However, her fascination with extreme religious ideas and hidden postpartum psychosis leads her to believe Satan is sending messages to drown all of her children. What follows is a media firestorm.

2020-11-20T03:00:00Z

1x02 Atlanta Olympic Bombing

1x02 Atlanta Olympic Bombing

  • 2020-11-20T03:00:00Z43m

At the 1996 Olympics, a security guard discovers pipe bombs and clears the area to minimise the fatalities. Praised as a hero, the FBI then decides he fits the domestic terrorist profile, while the real villain continues his terror campaign.

2020-11-27T03:00:00Z

1x03 McMartin Preschool Trial

1x03 McMartin Preschool Trial

  • 2020-11-27T03:00:00Z43m

When the parents of children in a California preschool are informed that their kids may have been the victims of sexual abuse, it sets off a chain of panic and catastrophic events that will put an innocent man on trial for the heinous crimes.

2020-12-04T03:00:00Z

1x04 The Menendez Brothers

1x04 The Menendez Brothers

  • 2020-12-04T03:00:00Z43m

When a Hollywood executive and his wife are brutally killed in a wealthy neighborhood, suspicion falls on their two sons. Charged with the murders, the brothers reveal disturbing family secrets, and the scene is set for one of the most shocking trials.

2020-12-11T03:00:00Z

1x05 Selena

1x05 Selena

  • 2020-12-11T03:00:00Z43m

A Mexican-American singer is on the cusp of international superstardom when one fateful visit to a Texas motel cuts her young life tragically short. Fans clamor for justice as police negotiators stand-off with an unlikely killer.

2020-12-18T03:00:00Z

1x06 The Nanny Trial

1x06 The Nanny Trial

  • 2020-12-18T03:00:00Z43m

Louise Woodward, an 18-year-old au pair from Britain, is accused of murdering eight-month-old Matthew Eappen by violently shaking him. Her trial creates a media firestorm, searing the term "shaken baby syndrome" into America's consciousness.

2020-12-25T03:00:00Z

1x07 Patty Hearst

1x07 Patty Hearst

  • 2020-12-25T03:00:00Z43m

In the seventies' chaos, left wing radicals take heiress Patty Hearst hostage and the media, too. While the FBI focuses their efforts on bank robbery charges, a murder goes unsolved. But the son of the slain Myrna Opsahl holds out for justice.

Season Finale

2021-01-01T03:00:00Z

1x08 Rodney King

Season Finale

1x08 Rodney King

  • 2021-01-01T03:00:00Z43m

In 1992 Los Angeles, the brutal police beating of Rodney King is caught on video, igniting outrage. When the officers are let off, fury is unleashed. With testimony from LA residents, this is an intimate account of those dark days.

Loading...