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Blood, Lies, And Alibis

  • 2012 – 2013
  • Returning Series
  • Documentary
  • ~45m / ep
  • 2 seasons
  • 10.0/10

Tracks criminal investigators as they unravel stories behind cold blooded murders. With the help of forensic evidence, old fashioned legwork and years of dogged determination, detectives deliver justice to families and communities.

Latest: Season 1 · 2012

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  1. E1. The Poughkeepsie Killer

    Jun 4, 2012

    Kendall Francois is a john who frequents the Poughkeepsie, NY streets where he lives. For over two years, he picks up and murders eight prostitutes and is only discovered when the would-be ninth victim escapes and reports him to police. Over a two year period, eight women disappear from Poughkeepsie, NY. All of the women are prostitutes who work in the area. Several suspects come to light, but no evidence can ever be connected to them. Then in September 1998, a prostitute tells police that Kendall Francois tried to kill her. He had been questioned previously but said nothing incriminating and even passed a lie-detector test. When he finally confesses, a search of his home reveals eight bodies.

  2. E2. The Perverted Preacher

    Jun 11, 2012

    When Arletha Hopkins learns that her husband is abusing her daughter she kicks him out. He exacts revenge by killing her and forcing the girl to help hide the body. No one finds out till years later when she becomes pregnant and the story spills out. Anthony Hopkins is a traveling preacher in Mobile, Alabama. Left with eight children to raise after his wife purportedly leaves him, he tells his congregation that she died giving birth. But it's not as it seems — Hopkins was forcing his stepdaughter to engage in sexual acts. When his wife finds out, he kills her and forces his stepdaughter to help him conceal the body. No one finds out until years later, when the girl becomes pregnant with his child and the harrowing story spills out.

  3. E3. The Killing Cousins

    Jun 16, 2012

    Profiling serial killer and rapist David Alan Gore and his accomplice, his cousin Fred Waterfield.

  4. E4. The Love Slave Murders

    Jun 25, 2012

    The heinous crimes of Gerald and Charlene Gallego, a married pair of serial killers, are detailed.

  5. E5. Friendly Fire

    Jul 2, 2012

    Career criminal Gary Evans is suspected to be behind the disappearance of one of his former associates. After an intense manhunt, Evans is apprehended in Vermont and confesses to a life filled with crime and killing, with five murders to his credit. Gary Evans makes his living robbing antique stores throughout New York State and is well known by police in the area. After two years of having no contact with him, police are thrust back onto his path in late 1997 — a path that is littered with bodies of his former associates and a few store owners who didn't get out of the way fast enough. Evans is eventually captured and confesses to the murders before killing himself, having never been prosecuted.

  6. E6. A Deadly Divorcee

    Jul 9, 2012

    Elizabeth Gatenby's mother is in the process of divorcing unsuspecting husband, Bruce Firman. In an elaborate plan to ensure her mother gets everything, Elizabeth hires her son and another young man to murder Bruce. Bruce Firman is found dead in his garage by soon to be ex-wife, Margaret Benesch, and her daughter, Elizabeth Gatenby. Suspicion immediately falls on Benesch — as the sole heir in Firman's will, she is entitled to receive everything, but produces a rock-solid alibi. When investigators dust Gatenby's rental car for fingerprints, one match those of a 17-year-old teenager. He said he'd been hired to kill Firman by Gatenby's son, Byron, who confesses that his mother planned it all.

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