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Gangland Chronicles offers an inside look at some of the world's most notorious criminal organizations. Each episode explores three legendary moments from a specific underworld group.

A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her dangerously intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. When a crisis tears them apart, the mother finds a mobile home community that provides the possibility of a better life.

Determined investigators must piece together a crime scene to reconstruct the timeline, unlock the motive and ultimately get closer to the killer.

A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.

When the badly decomposed body of a woman is found in the backseat of her estranged husband's missing SUV, investigators must interview everyone close to her to retrace her final steps.

When two young girls arrive home from school ten days before Christmas to find their father dead, police are able to narrow down the timeline of the murder to an eight-minute window, just before the girls walked in the door.

When newlyweds Joe and Olga Connell are gunned down outside their Wilmington, Delaware home, police must investigate a sibling rivalry, a business partnership plagued by drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang.

In 2004, savvy businessman Henry Diaz goes missing in Miami. In a neighboring city, his abandoned car is found covered in blood. Then Henry's body surfaces in the Everglades mutilated by alligators. Detectives uncover Henry's secret life and now they have to reconstruct the timeline in this real life murder mystery.

A young Iowa man is shot dead while he sleeps peacefully next to his fiancee. Investigators wonder how she remained unharmed, and suspicion quickly swirls around her and two of her ex-boyfriends.

When a two-bit Florida criminal is arrested driving a stolen convertible with blood in the backseat and its owner, a 49-year-old hotelier named Sabine Musil-Buehler is reported missing, the case expands to include a possible homicide.

When the body of 43-year-old Tina Coronna is discovered in the backseat of her abandoned truck, detectives must piece together clues gleaned from the victim's emotional husband, his mistress, and a neighborhood vigilante.

A woman is gunned down in her garage after finishing a shift at work and investigators must search in vain for a motive in the brutal murder. When her boyfriend finds notes she wrote prior to the crime, the case is flipped on its head.

When a Florida man is doused with acid in a parking lot in broad daylight and succumbs to his burns, investigators in the otherwise peaceful community of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea are left to wonder who would want this beloved man dead.

A concerned husband fails to get in touch with his wife after an alarm is tripped at their house, so he calls on the police to check it out. Upon arrival, they find his wife dead and try to connect the dots between an earlier burglary and a love triangle.

A 45-year-odl yoga instructor is found gunned down on his front porch on a hot September morning in Tucson. With evidence of a burglary, detectives wonder if the victim interrupted the crime. The case proves much more complex when a witness steps forward.

A popular college student is found stabbed to death in her apartment the day after Thanksgiving. Detectives in Jacksonville Beach must piece together her last known movements to pinpoint the time of the murder, and then they must find her brutal killer.

A cold-blooded murder of a 39-year-old woman sends detectives in Oldsmar, Florida on the hunt for a killer, and their only clues are three letters written in blood and a pizza delivery.

A 27-year-old law student is reported missing, and when investigators later find human remains in the trash can behind her apartment, it's undeniable that the two are related. Police in Macon, Georgia, must act fast to catch a cold-blooded killer.

A 30-year-old woman is reported missing by her concerned husband after she fails to report to work. When her abandoned car is found, traces of blood in the trunk indicate more than just a disappearance - it's clear she has been murdered.

A former marine's death reveals a string of angry coworkers and irate exes.

A 63-year-old man is gunned down in his own home just days before Christmas. As investigators in Spokane, Washington dig into the victim's business life in search of a motive, they uncover a host of shady deals and a few desperate men.

When a charming 33-year-old is gunned down outside his home, detectives must comb over every detail of his personal life, professional dealings, and extracurricular activities to figure out who could commit such a brutal crime, and why.

A 42-year-old Russian woman living the American dream in Texas is savagely gunned down in her garage. As investigators work the case, the list of suspects includes her controlling ex-husband, her boyfriend, an obsessive admirer, and a generous mentor.

A 36-year-old woman lies strangled to death in her own home. Clues at the scene indicate she knew her killer well enough to let them in and that the resulting murder was spontaneous. Now, police race to discover who could want this mother dead and why.

A popular Wisconsin funeral director and his intern are murdered in cold blood. The case stalls for two years before a criminal profiler takes a fresh look and sees only one viable suspect -- someone the police never considered.