FBI Takedowns Of America's Most Evil Serial Killers

In the summer of 1999, Texas was terrorized by a brutal serial killer who traveled by train. The FBI assembled a task force to gather information about the dangerous drifter and create a profile that would help locate him. Unravel the mystery alongside the FBI's greatest law enforcers and forensic scientists. Season 5 Episode 6: An FBI task force conducts an international manhunt to find a Mexican serial killer.

In May 2001, 11-year-old Leah Henry vanished just a block from her home in Houston, Texas. What started as an ordinary school day turned into a nightmare for her family and the beginning of one of the FBI’s most desperate hunts for a dangerous predator. With only a neighbor’s eyewitness account of a white hatchback, investigators feared the worst as Leah’s abductor carried her miles away.

On August 4th, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in broad daylight inside their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Though their daughter Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted, the case remains officially unsolved 130 years later. This documentary re-examines the timeline, motives, and physical evidence as a modern cold case. Was Lizzie a lone killer, or have historians been asking the wrong question all along? Discover the hidden family tensions, flawed forensic investigations, and the possibility of a deadly shared conspiracy. You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

In 1988, new light was shed on the mysterious death of a South Carolina farmer when a criminal confessed that two prominent community members hired him to commit murder.

An Arkansas State Trooper is shot and killed officers catch the shooter, after a car chase and shootout. ATF is alerted when officers find weapons and explosives in the man's vehicle. Testing of the weapons leads them to three men who are all members of The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), a racist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group residing in a fortified compound with stockpiles of weapons in Arkansas. The FBI and ATF surround the compound, but the members resist them for several days. Finally, the standoff is ended and agents get their men.

A mother and her 7-year-old daughter are kidnapped in their own home by masked gunmen. The men strap what they claim are bombs to their backs and order the mother, a bank manager, to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from her own bank. This documentary tells the true story of how a seemingly random attack unraveled into a complex tale of survival, betrayal, and a courtroom battle that questioned everything you thought you knew about the crime. This is the story of Michelle Renee and a crime that captivated a nation.