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Best of season 2

Philadelphia’s vidocq society, named after an 18th century french detective, is one of the world’s most unusual crime-solving organizations. These prominent sleuths solve a murder case from a missing shoe, and successfully prove homicide without a body.

For some killers, murder can be a profitable business. And the scene of the crime can be both a source for clues, and puzzling questions. When a victim has been targeted for death, investigators must look beyond the obvious to uncover a murder for hire.

Sometimes, the cause of death does not match the scene of the crime. When an untraceable poison is used to commit murder, homicide detectives turn to forensic toxicologists to follow a killer’s tracks and expose a toxic death.

Shortly after a young nurse ends up beaten and shot to death in her apartment, her lover’s wife reveals her knowledge about the affair, yet it takes nearly 40 years to match DNA evidence found at the crime scene to implicate the man behind it all.

In small-town bartow, florida four bodies are found slaughtered in a factory. It’s the largest mass murder in county history. Each victim is somehow connected to the factory and the family business -- and each victim seems to have been executed by a professional assassin. When investigators finally zero in on a prime suspect, they are foiled by his picture-perfect alibi – security footage showing him 500 miles from the scene of the crime. With no hard evidence in sight – and with the bloodthirsty killer still on the loose – investigators turn to video forensic analysis, complex timeline reconstruction, and a most unexpected 3-year-old fingerprint.

Bernie Hoffman’s dream was to strike it rich as a Hollywood star when God called on him to preach the gospel. Changing his name to Tony Alamo, he started a popular Hollywood ministry, TV, and radio programs together with his wife Susan.

General Deborah Green and her husband Jim didn’t hesitate to call themselves leaders of a cult—what started as a free love commune offering salvation and refuge for lost souls became a militaristic organization that believed in tough love.

It was supposed to be a haven for anyone who made a mistake, committed a crime, and wanted to turn their life around—that was Anna Young’s mission when she and her husband started the House of Prayer.

Neighbors often wondered about the secretive group living in a school building in suburban Utica, New York. But the secrecy is shattered when a counseling session turns horrifically violent.

After a nine-month investigation, authorities were horrified to find bodies of a family of five, buried in a barn in Kirtland, Ohio. The ritualistic killings, which made headlines in 1990, were carried out at the orders of cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren.

Dwight York, aka Dr. Love, had his own record label and musical career in the early 90s. His early recordings featured love songs and ballads. But Dr. Love was also a charismatic speaker with radical ideas who gathered hundreds of followers.

Con man Daniel Perez was so charismatic that he convinced his followers he was an angel. When he was caught and charged with multiple counts of child rape, the “Angel” fled to Mexico and faked his own death, ending the investigation.

Tucked away in a remote, rural compound in New Mexico, in 1987 doomsday preacher Wayne Bent broke away from his 7th day Adventist upbringing to provide a haven for his followers who were captivated by his charismatic preaching.

In a jealous rage, 57-year-old professor George Zinkhan murders his wife, her lover and shoots other members of their amateur theatre troupe

Neuroscientist Amy Bishop is denied tenor, and it results in deadly consequences for her co-workers.

While her 10-year-old daughter listens upstairs, failed self-help guru Derek Medina shoots his wife during an argument, then casually posts pictures of her dead body on Facebook.

After a night of drinking, 45-year-old Ana Trujillo bludgeons her on-again-off-again lover Stefan Andersson to death with a blue suede stiletto shoe.

Former Deputy Sheriff of Colbert, Georgia, Tracy Fortson shoots her boyfriend Douglas Benton as he sleeps, then abandons his body in a cement-filled trough in the woods.

Nicole Abusharif, 26, murders her partner Rebecca Klein for the insurance money, then leaves her body in the boot of her car for a night of drinking with her young lover, Rose.

Law student Adrienne Hickson fatally stabs her boyfriend Shawn Washington with the knife for her birthday cake when he helps his friends move instead of spending the day with her.

Applebee's waitress Rachel Wade, 19, stabs 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann to death in a vicious teen-girl cat fight over shared bad boy boyfriend Josh Camacho.

Submissive 'good wife' Mary Winkler takes fate into her own hands, before fleeing the scene for a day at the beach with her children.

Encouraged by life insurance money, 33-year-old Kimberly Hricko takes her 35-year old husband Stephen on a romantic murder mystery weekend.

Patty White attempts to rob former flatmate Michele O'Dowd, but ends up leaving something unexpected under the Christmas tree.

After years of physical abuse, Karra Trichele Allen and her husband Brian take a dangerous turn in their relationship.

When 71-year-old Colleen Harris discovered her 73-year-old husband Robert was having a long-distance affair with a 35-year-old woman in Mongolia, she decided to teach him a lesson.

Adam Mayes' best friend has two young daughters - with whom Adam has a twisted obsession. He kills their mother and elder sister before kidnapping the two younger girls.

When an 18-year-old girl falls in love with a man nearly 15 years her senior, her parents warn against it, but no one could predict the danger she is in.

A church lady's murder leads to a number of rumors spreading around Georgiana, Ala., causing detectives to struggle with separating fact from fiction.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a drunken biker takes a 120 mile-an-hour face plant. Then, a bus hijacker blazes a trail of terror on the freeway. Also, an armed con tears up the back roads and sets his sights on an officer. Tv-14l