American Crimes

Middle-aged real estate investor finds young love and steals client money to impress his new bride.

A clever con man scams millions using a wet and wild fraud in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Nevin Shapiro, a football booster and a fixture on the Miami social scene, orchestrates a Ponzi scheme.

A Minneapolis businessman buys big companies and makes himself rich in the process.

Young girls line the streets of Mexico; sex houses litter Midwest neighborhoods; U.S. immigrants are exploited.

The multibillion-dollar business of illegal gambling; online wagering; the debate over legalizing gambling.

Authorities say synthetic drugs are an industry earning as much as $5 billion a year; critics assert the deadly but legal product is being sold directly to kids.

Going undercover from China to Chinatown to reveal the latest trends in fakes which have gone far beyond designer bags.

Inside the high-tech underworld of media piracy: individuals accused of ripping off music, movies and games.

Criminals look to make big money in the art world through home invasions, museum thefts and forgeries.

The body of a Chicago woman is found stuffed in a suitcase at a luxury resort in Bali; the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack is a tragedy years in the making, featuring a wild-child daughter, a history of violence, and a shocking motive.

Toni Henthorn, M.D. is a brilliant surgeon and mother with a seemingly perfect home life; when a romantic getaway weekend turns tragic, is she the victim of an unfortunate accident or the target of a black-hearted master plan worth millions?

When a Manhattan heiress vanishes from her mansion, friends, staff and investigators are mystified; the investigation leads to a mysterious tenant who moved into the mansion weeks earlier and a transcontinental story of deceit, arson and murder.

Horror strikes the wealthy enclave of Aspen, Colo. when heiress Nancy Pfister is found brutally murdered in her mountain home; as police work to untangle a twisted web of suspects, a shocking confession puts a sudden end to the investigation.

Young girls line the streets of Mexico; sex houses litter Midwest neighborhoods; U.S. immigrants are exploited.

The multibillion-dollar business of illegal gambling; online wagering; the debate over legalizing gambling.

Authorities say synthetic drugs are an industry earning as much as $5 billion a year; critics assert the deadly but legal product is being sold directly to kids.

Going undercover from China to Chinatown to reveal the latest trends in fakes which have gone far beyond designer bags.

Inside the high-tech underworld of media piracy: individuals accused of ripping off music, movies and games.

Criminals look to make big money in the art world through home invasions, museum thefts and forgeries.

The body of a Chicago woman is found stuffed in a suitcase at a luxury resort in Bali; the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack is a tragedy years in the making, featuring a wild-child daughter, a history of violence, and a shocking motive.

Toni Henthorn, M.D. is a brilliant surgeon and mother with a seemingly perfect home life; when a romantic getaway weekend turns tragic, is she the victim of an unfortunate accident or the target of a black-hearted master plan worth millions?

When a Manhattan heiress vanishes from her mansion, friends, staff and investigators are mystified; the investigation leads to a mysterious tenant who moved into the mansion weeks earlier and a transcontinental story of deceit, arson and murder.

Horror strikes the wealthy enclave of Aspen, Colo. when heiress Nancy Pfister is found brutally murdered in her mountain home; as police work to untangle a twisted web of suspects, a shocking confession puts a sudden end to the investigation.

Young girls line the streets of Mexico; sex houses litter Midwest neighborhoods; U.S. immigrants are exploited.

The multibillion-dollar business of illegal gambling; online wagering; the debate over legalizing gambling.

Authorities say synthetic drugs are an industry earning as much as $5 billion a year; critics assert the deadly but legal product is being sold directly to kids.

Going undercover from China to Chinatown to reveal the latest trends in fakes which have gone far beyond designer bags.

Inside the high-tech underworld of media piracy: individuals accused of ripping off music, movies and games.

Criminals look to make big money in the art world through home invasions, museum thefts and forgeries.

The body of a Chicago woman is found stuffed in a suitcase at a luxury resort in Bali; the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack is a tragedy years in the making, featuring a wild-child daughter, a history of violence, and a shocking motive.

Toni Henthorn, M.D. is a brilliant surgeon and mother with a seemingly perfect home life; when a romantic getaway weekend turns tragic, is she the victim of an unfortunate accident or the target of a black-hearted master plan worth millions?

When a Manhattan heiress vanishes from her mansion, friends, staff and investigators are mystified; the investigation leads to a mysterious tenant who moved into the mansion weeks earlier and a transcontinental story of deceit, arson and murder.

The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections Jail has a daily population of about 2,000 men and women charged with anything from minor crimes to capital murder; both buildings are overcrowded, and their layouts are outdated.

A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.

In San Antonio, Texas, rival gangs shed blood in a power struggle to control a wide range of criminal activity including drugs, prostitution and human trafficking; this turf war has expanded from the streets to inside the walls of Bexar County Jail.

Gang members disrupt a housing unit, and when inmates flood their cells, the Special Emergency Response Team, or SERT, takes action, placing one inmate in special restraints; a female inmate poses a dangerous threat to staff.

Police take a young man into custody following the murder of a 15-year-old boy in his Louisville, Ky., home; the jail finds itself with a multitude of related high-profile cases.

For inmates that reach their boiling point, the jail has a special place: The Box; as one inmate says, "separated from everything so you learn to deal with it. It's called 'The Box Life.'".

Four clean-cut college students risk it all to become super-thieves by targeting $12 million in rare books in a brash daylight heist that baffles the cops hunting them.

When a violent gang of bank robbers executes a perfect heist, cops don't realize that one of the terrified bank tellers is actually the mastermind behind it all.

TV cameras are there when armed bank robbers take hostages at a large, international bank; police don't realize the robbery only masks a more spectacular heist taking place right under their feet.

An inmate with an influential family in one gang, joins its arch rival; a female inmate who has ties to both gangs finds her mail has jail officials concerned.

The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections Jail has a daily population of about 2,000 men and women charged with anything from minor crimes to capital murder; both buildings are overcrowded, and their layouts are outdated.

A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.

In San Antonio, Texas, rival gangs shed blood in a power struggle to control a wide range of criminal activity including drugs, prostitution and human trafficking; this turf war has expanded from the streets to inside the walls of Bexar County Jail.

Gang members disrupt a housing unit, and when inmates flood their cells, the Special Emergency Response Team, or SERT, takes action, placing one inmate in special restraints; a female inmate poses a dangerous threat to staff.

Police take a young man into custody following the murder of a 15-year-old boy in his Louisville, Ky., home; the jail finds itself with a multitude of related high-profile cases.

For inmates that reach their boiling point, the jail has a special place: The Box; as one inmate says, "separated from everything so you learn to deal with it. It's called 'The Box Life.'".

Four clean-cut college students risk it all to become super-thieves by targeting $12 million in rare books in a brash daylight heist that baffles the cops hunting them.

When a violent gang of bank robbers executes a perfect heist, cops don't realize that one of the terrified bank tellers is actually the mastermind behind it all.

TV cameras are there when armed bank robbers take hostages at a large, international bank; police don't realize the robbery only masks a more spectacular heist taking place right under their feet.

An inmate with an influential family in one gang, joins its arch rival; a female inmate who has ties to both gangs finds her mail has jail officials concerned.

The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections Jail has a daily population of about 2,000 men and women charged with anything from minor crimes to capital murder; both buildings are overcrowded, and their layouts are outdated.

A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.

In San Antonio, Texas, rival gangs shed blood in a power struggle to control a wide range of criminal activity including drugs, prostitution and human trafficking; this turf war has expanded from the streets to inside the walls of Bexar County Jail.

Gang members disrupt a housing unit, and when inmates flood their cells, the Special Emergency Response Team, or SERT, takes action, placing one inmate in special restraints; a female inmate poses a dangerous threat to staff.