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Program Title: Crime Stories (New Series)
Telecast date: Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Telecast Time: 10pm
Channel: Astro, Channel 732
Program synopsis:
Crime Stories chronicles some of the most intriguing international crimes. This investigative series take viewers behind the scenes: revealing what occurred, introducing the people involved, unveiling techniques used in solving the crime, exposing the intense emotion and final resolution of the case.
Murder And Ice Cream, 2 Feb
1986. Cindy Zarzycki is 13 years old when she goes missing on her way to a Detroit ice cream store. Considered a runaway, Cindy remains just another missing child on a milk carton until Detective Derek “Mac” McLaughlin receives her file nine years later. Teaming up with Jen Liebow, a fresh-faced intern, Mac revisits every single clue to identify Arthur Ream, father of Cindy s boyfriend Scott, as his prime suspect. With dogged determination and superb investigative skills, Mac and Jen discover new and conclusive evidence, enough to convict the killer. Arthur Ream is sentenced to life in prison twenty-two years after Cindy s disappearance.
The Long Stemmed Killer, 9 Feb
1987. Just hours before her divorce hearing, Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton opens her front door for a flower delivery. The deliveryman, a small time hood named Tony Harwood, hands her a box of roses and then shoots her dead. Detective Welcome Harris – and most of Atlanta s elite – suspect Lita s estranged husband, millionaire Jim Sullivan, of orchestrating the murder. After a 19 year investigation, one guilty hit-man s confession and an international manhunt, Sullivan is finally found guilty of her contract killing.
The Russians Are Killing, 16 Feb
It’s just another meeting for Los Angeles real estate developer Meyer Muscatel. Unfortunately Muscatel meets with Iouri Mikhel, a Russian immigrant with murderous intent. A week later, Muscatel s body is found floating in a northern California lake. Mikhel masterminds a kidnap-for-ransom scheme, and he and his crew kill and dump four more victims. With a storyline that includes a bank account in Abu Dhabi and a mysterious Moscow middleman, the case is solved by FBI agents Lour Perez and Jim Davidson and prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Robert Dugdale. Mikhel and his co-conspirator Jurijus Kadamovas are convicted of five cold-blooded, ruthless murders and, in 2007, are sentenced to death.
A Way With Murder, 23 Feb
1978. Nancy, David and Susan Spangler are found shot to death in their home – the brutal slaughter is deemed a murder suicide. Over the next fifteen years, two more Spangler spouses, Sharon and Donna die in similarly suspicious circumstances. After an exhaustive investigation by numerous agencies, authorities finally get a confession from psychopath Robert Spangler as he reveals his role as a serial spousal killer.
The program is also available in Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese subtitle.
