Crime Stories chronicles some of the most intriguing crimes in history. This investigative series takes the viewers behind the yellow tape, revealing what occurred, introducing the people involved, unveiling techniques used in solving the crime, exposing the emotion experienced by those affected, and the final resolution of the case.

In 1989, the entire town of Miramichi is held hostage by a monster.  A troubled man with a heinous past embarks on a 7-month crime spree, including brutal beatings, rape, arson and serial murder.

Allan Legere: The Monster of Miramichi

In 1995, terror descends upon the Bible belt community of Abbotsford, BC. An attack on two teenage girls leaves one dead and starts a 7-month siege of torment.

Terry Driver: The Abbotsford Killer

A young Vancouver woman is tied to a tree and sexually assaulted for 9 straight days just yards away from the busiest highway in Canada.

David Snow: The House Hermit

When two suburban housewives are killed in their homes within a week of each other in May 1970, it leaves Toronto in fear.

Ronald Glenn West: The 22 Caliber Killer

A man who was once accepted into a small Quebec community turns out to be a murderer, whose crimes cover nearly twenty years.

William Fyfe: The Killer Handyman

On December 11, 1987 a hard luck child living in a group home in Ontario was reported missing when she failed to return home from school.

Douglas Robert Worth: The Pictou Sadist

Known as the Vampire Rapist for his distinctive modus operandi, Wayne Boden would rape, strangle and bite the breasts of his victims.

Wayne Clifford Boden: The Vampire Rapist

In August of 1982, six members of the Bentley/Johnson family disappear in the Wells Grey National Park without a trace.

David Shearing: The Wells Grey Gunman

A weeklong crime spree began with the murder of a young woman, found naked, stabbed and strangled in the closet of an abandoned apartment in London, Ontario.

Peter John Peters: The Tattoo Man

In 1983 the ex-wife of Cabinet Minister Colin Thatcher is found brutally murdered in her garage.

The Conservative Killer

In the city of Moncton, New Brunswick police discover the bodies of Joan Hicks and her 11-year-old daughter, Nina ‚Äì both brutally murdered late in the night.

The Homocidal Drifter

An international student is found raped and murdered in the bathroom of her high-rise apartment.

The Casebook Rapist

On a single rain-soaked night during the Victoria Day weekend, police are called to the scene of three very similar crimes.

The Victoria Day Shooter

Women are being attacked in their beds at night.  Police are baffled as to how this intruder is gaining access to apartments sometimes more than 15 stories up.

The Bedroom Strangler

A hunter on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan stumbles across human remains.

The Lady-Killer

In the winter of 1968, the prairie city of Saskatoon is ravaged by a string of savage rapes.

The Elusive Rapist

Near Montreal, a husband comes home from work and finds his wife bound, gagged and shot in the head.

The Butcher of St. Ustache

On a rainy night in Edmonton, Alberta police are called to a remote trucking yard.

The Boogeyman

In downtown Edmonton, a prominent business owner is found shot to death in his business.

The Murderous Mastermind

For three weeks in May of 1994, a brutal killer had a nation on edge.  A bloody spree of rapes, kidnappings, and murders resulted in the deaths of six Oklahoma residents.

The Roaming Rapist

Ray and Faye Copeland would become America‚Äôs oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

The Elderly Executioners

In Sacramento in the mid 1980‚Äôs, a ruthless killer was making his way through the fringe community of Oak Park.

The Homicidal Handyman

Dorothea Puente provided shelter for the infirm in her boardinghouse.  It wasn‚Äôt until a body was found in her yard that authorities realized she was not who she appeared to be.

The Boardinghouse Killer

Robert C. Hansen was known for his hunting abilities.  In the early 1980‚Äôs, however, his taste for hunting took a sinister turn.

The Human Hunter

One of the most intensive manhunts in the history of Texas took place over the summer of 1999 when a brutal serial killer was on the loose.

The Railcar Killer

In the early 1990s, the tourist hotspot of New South Wales, Australia became a place of fear when backpackers started going missing.

The Backpacker Killer

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.

The Laser Man

In 1985, a brutal killer had Southern Californians fearing for their lives.

The Night Stalker

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.

The Killing Cousins

On August 8, 1973, police in Pasadena, Texas received a phone call from a young man who had just committed murder.

The Candy Man

In the late 1990s, a string of disappearances in Rockhampton, Queensland left police searching for a killer they couldn‚Äôt identify.

The Rockhampton Rapist

The body of a local beauty queen is found in a farmer‚Äôs field near Sydney, Australia, and the entire country is riveted.

The Blacktown Boys

Gerald Gallego, son of a convicted killer, and Charlene Gallego, honour student and musical prodigy, were a match made in hell.

The Love Slave Murders

In 1974, a man identifying himself as the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Strangler started a killing spree in Kansas spanning the next two decades.

The BTK Strangler

Six days into 2004, an unidentified man is found stabbed to death just outside of the booming oil city of Calgary, Alberta. Just when the police appear to have no leads, a witness comes forward.

The Teenage Terrors

A week-long search for a missing 10-yr-old Indiana girl ends sadly with her body being discovered in a nearby stream.

The Menthol Murderer

In November 1986, a snowstorm rips through Connecticut, leaving wife and mother Helle Crafts missing.

The Woodchipper Wife-Killer

Ricky Dale Hemphill and companion Charla Toma set out for a picnic along a river near Brookings, Oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later Ricky is found murdered and Charla is missing.

The Wilderness Murders

Several women went missing from the Kansas City area in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Slave Master

A common-law couple was found guilty of the 1990 rape and murder of Taunja Bennett near Portland, Oregon.

The Happy Face Killer

Stephen Grant reported his wife, Tara Lynn Grant, missing five days after he said she left their house in an unidentified black car.

The Missing Mom

American Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family vanished in August 1995, leaving behind an ominous note.

The Abducted Atheists

On Valentine's Day weekend 1999, three tourists from Yosemite National Park disappeared and were found murdered a month later.

The Yosemite Park Murderer

In March 1992 Claude Hawkins was shot dead while he was fishing in Ohio. Hawkins' murder mirrored multiple deaths in other nearby counties.

The Silent Sniper

When emergency services arrived at the office of respected neurologist Richard Boggs following the report of a patient's death, they had their suspicions regarding the circumstances...

The Doctor of Death

On a wintry morning in Sweden, Alexandra Fossmo, wife of pastor Helge Fossmo, was found shot to death in her bed.

Terror by Text

In November 1996, Raymond Collin went missing in his hometown of Timmins, Ontario. The discovery of his body days later in a snow-covered truck led police to an assortment of possible suspects.

The Arbitrary Assassins

When Erika DeNardo‚Äôs mother and brother were murdered, she told police and neighbours it had been the work of thieves.

The Slaying Sweethearts

Cindy Zarzycki is 13 years old when she goes missing on her way to a Detroit ice cream store.

Girls Just Wanna Get Found

Just hours before her divorce hearing, Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton opens her front door for a flower delivery.  The deliveryman hands her a box of roses and then shoots her dead.

The Long Stemmed Killer

It‚Äôs just another meeting for Los Angeles real estate developer Meyer Muscatel.  Unfortunately Muscatel meets with a Russian immigrant with murderous intent.

The Russians Are Killing

Nancy, David and Susan Spangler are found shot to death in their home - the brutal slaughter is deemed a murder suicide.

A Way with Murder

The brutally beaten body of First Nations sex trade worker Pamela George is discovered on a cold spring morning just outside Regina, Saskatchewan.

The Killer Schoolboys

After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang.

The Kid with the Hollywood Haircut

In 1996, nurses and patients at the Veteran‚Äôs Affairs Medical Center in Northampton are concerned.  It seems that wherever nurse Kristen Gilbert goes, death follows.

The Lethal Injector

14-year-old Reena Virk goes to a party at the Craigflower Bridge, near Victoria, Canada. It is there where her ‚Äòfriends‚Äô swarm, burn and beat her down.

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