2024-10-04
Bernie Pyne returned home one day in May 2011 with his young daughter to find his wife Ruth in the garage, brutally beaten and stabbed to death. To outsiders, the Pyne's appeared to be an all-American family. After Ruth was murdered, police learned the Pyne's were not as perfect as portrayed.
A report on the murder of Nicole Pietz, and how Gael Schneider, the victim's mother, waged a one-woman campaign of psychological warfare on her daughter's alleged killer. In January 2006, Nicole Pietz disappeared from her suburban Seattle, Washington home. Nine days later her body was discovered in a wooded field near the airport. The investigation into the murder revealed that Nicole's life was n
On the morning of May 5, 2009, Christopher Coleman called his neighbor, police detective Justin Barlow, and asked him to check on his wife, Sheri, and their two young sons, Gavin and Garett, after his own calls had gone unanswered. For months, Coleman, head of security for well-known televangelist Joyce Meyer, had been receiving explicit death threats regarding his involvement in Meyer's ministry.
An investigation into the deaths of South Carolina sports bookie Brett Parker's wife, Tammy Parker, and his associate, Bryan Capnerhurst, who Parker claims he shot while Capnerhurst was attempting to rob Parker's safe. Though sports betting in South Carolina is illegal, Brett Parker and his father ran an honest family bookmaking operation that was generally left alone by police. At first police to
Felicia Tang was an actress and model in Hollywood, CA. Her boyfriend, Brian Randone, was an inspirational preacher and one-time reality show contestant. Two months after they met in Las Vegas, Tang moved in to his LA home. After a night of passion, Tang was dead. On the morning of September 11, 2009, Randone summoned police because Tang wasn't breathing. He maintained she overdosed on the drug GH
When the downtown church of Nate's former priest - and childhood best friend - is about to be razed by a profiteering real estate developer, the Leverage team must steal a miracle in order to save it. But as the story progresses, the question becomes: "who exactly is saving whom?".
While working a con on a corrupt County judge in an outlying desert town, the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery... and Nate and Sophie are taken as hostages, along with their mark. Now, they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered, but must figure out how to help two very desperate - and very amateur - armed robbers.
The Leverage crew goes after a Serbian adoption agency that's scamming money from desperate American couples looking to adopt needy war orphans. To entrap the ringleader and rescue the children, the team must hijack the local production of an independent horror movie.
To retrieve the money promised to the family of an innocent man who took the fall for a Mafia boss, the Leverage team poses as the wedding planners for the don's only daughter on her big day. Somehow, the team must manage to pull off a wedding while pulling off the heist... all while avoiding a dangerous Russian mobster known as The Butcher.
The Leverage team attempts to expose a conglomerate's cover-up of their toxic fertilizer which has resulted in the death of a young girl. But the CEO has put all of the damning evidence on a plane to the Cayman Islands. The team races to catch the flight but, once airborne, they discover that the CEO's intentions are far more sinister...and that to avenge one life they'll have to save their own.
The Leverage team helps a beleaguered National Guardsman to find justice against the unscrupulous construction firm who foreclosed on his home. Knowing all too well what it feels like to fail as a father, Nate seeks solace in the bottle, putting the team - and the con - in serious jeopardy.
The team targets an investment broker who swindled a charity. To discover where the money is hidden, the team tricks the alcoholic financier into entering a rehab facility. There, they learn their mark is not the terrible person he at first appeared - and that rehab may be exactly the place one of them needs to be.
Nate Ford reluctantly reassembles the team to pit the local Irish mob against a banker who is gaming a government bailout. If they survive, Nate has to deal with four thieves who've decided he needs them in his life, whether he likes it or not.
At Halloween, the team takes on a case to prove the existence of ghosts on the Queen Mary but find a ship on a deadly collision course; Walter considers taking note of Paige's interests to benefit their relationship.
A device that can prevent a nuclear meltdown is tracked through the Los Angeles sewers; Walter learns to listen and not offer advice to Paige; the team meets their new neighbor.
As part of the witness-protection program, a special agent gains a new identity as truck driver Chance Bowman.
An encounter at a truck stop embroils Chance Bowman in a widow's problems and an altercation with the local police.
A minor accident delays Chance Bowman from moving on and introduces him to a talented mechanic with a tainted past.
After a near-miss encounter with a hit man, Chance decides to stand and fight Calder.