Crime Stories

- Season 5

(2007)

In the early 1990s, the tourist hotspot of New South Wales, Australia became a place of fear when backpackers started going missing. Over the course of a year, the bodies of seven missing backpackers were found in Belanglo State Forest, 150 km from Sydney. After an intense police investigation, local construction worker Ivan Milat was found guilty of these crimes.

During a time when immigration to Sweden was growing, feelings of racism were also on the rise. On August 2, 1991, one man began to act by shooting young immigrants on the streets of Stockholm. His weapon of choice, a laser guided rifle, would earn him the nickname "The Laser Man".

In 1985, a brutal killer had Southern Californians fearing for their lives. Richard Ramirez, known as "The Night Stalker", entered homes in the dead of night to terrorize the people inside. After six months and 14 murders, Ramirez was chased and beaten by a gang of citizens and finally arrested for his horrendous crimes.

On July 26, 1983, police in Vero Beach, Florida received a report of a nude man firing shots at a naked girl on a residential street. When they arrived on the scene, officers found the body of a 17-year-old girl hidden in the trunk of a car. David Allen Gore surrendered to police and confessed to five other murders, also implicating his cousin Fred Waterfield in the crimes.

On August 8, 1973, police in Pasadena, Houston received a phone call from a young man who had just committed murder. He claims that his victim, Dean Corll, was going to kill him just like he had done to so many others. Over the next 3 days, police will uncover the bodies of 27 boys who had all mysteriously disappeared. The most shocking part of the story, Corll's killer was also his accomplice.

In the late 1990s, a string of disappearances in Rockhampton, Queensland leave police searching for a killer they can't identify. The murder of a 9-year-old girl, Keira Steinhart, on her way home from school blows the case wide open when ex-con Leonard Fraser is arrested and convicted for her murder. Without the evidence to connect Fraser to the other disappearances, however, police must rely on one of his fellow inmates to get the truth from Fraser.