"Junk Food Professor," Howard Appledorf is murdered, and puzzling clues are left at the crime scene. Place settings on the floor and Red-rum written on his wall in ketchup. What salacious secrets was the professor hiding?

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Colton Harris-Moore is only a teenager when he embarks on his unbelievable string of capers. From breaking into vacation homes to stealing airplanes, this Barefoot Bandit is on the up and up, before going down in headline history.

Los Angeles strip-club owner Horace "Big Mac" McKenna dies in a hail of Uzi bullets in the back of his limo. Who hired the hit man?

Charles Dingle walked into a bar with malice in his heart, murder on his mind, and set in motion a night of hell on earth for everyone involved.

A famed drag queen is literally attacked by a masked man, a sword-wielding ninja with murder in his heart.

80-year-old Willy Cisneros finds love with a much younger Clara, even welcoming her cousin Julio Bonilla into the business. But happy marriages never end up in the tabloids, do they?

Esmie Tseng is a teenaged paragon of perfection in Overland Park, Kansas. But top marks, piano prodigy and perfect personality aren't enough for her Tiger mom.

B-movie actress Bonita Money marries a two-timing male model named Zjelko Misik, and apparently doesn't know she's bankrolling his many, many vices.

In the puzzling attack on Mississippi teenager Charles Hardemann; He is found near death in a car accident, beaten and nearly drowned.

Amara Wells settles down in the peaceful suburb of Castle Rock, Colorado with her husband Christopher and daughter, only to have her idyllic life shattered by a ninja assassin who creeps into the family's home with deadly intentions.

Los Angeles teens Nick Prugo and Rachel Lee take on a reality star lifestyle by robbing the rich and infamous, making them tabloid stars of their own known as 'The Bling Ring.'

Florida biker babe Jackie Dancy takes to the stage and bears all, before falling head over heals for straight shooter named Charles Hackett.

Narcissistic New York nightclub owner Burt Pugach deceives his mistress Linda Riss, and she is maimed for life.

80-year-old Willy Cisneros finds love with a much younger Clara, even welcoming her cousin Julio Bonilla into the business. But happy marriages never end up in the tabloids, do they?

Lisl Auman's life is turned upside down when her so-called 'friends' reveal their dark and dangerous sides.

Twenty-one-year-old Lisl Auman is a self-proclaimed hippie with a knack for mixing with the wrong people at the wrong place and time.

Mark Seal, Contributing Editor for 'Vanity Fair' talks about working with Hunter S. Thompson as well as why he thinks the Lisl Auman case was such an important story to tell.

In the summer of 1997, Lisl Auman is charged with the felony murder of Denver police officer Bruce VanderJagt, despite being locked in the back of a police patroller when the deadly shots were fired.

Journalist Barbara Nevins Taylor explains how she went undercover with a hidden camera.

Two young women are raped in Darien, Connecticut. The attacker threatens to kill them if they tell anyone. When police announce that the serial rapist is a popular high school athlete from a prominent family, the story makes front-page news.

When political activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair mysteriously disappears, she'll touch off one of the most baffling missing persons cases in American history-a case full of strange clues, false leads, and lethal suspects.

Deep in Louisiana bayou country, a man is found murdered in a nightclub. Detectives discover a handwritten note soaked in the victim’s blood, which reads “You gave me AIDS.”

When Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family disappear, some suspect that she fled to New Zealand to live a lavish lifestyle, while others have a much more grim theory.

To some, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is the most hated woman in America, and when she and her family mysteriously disappears, police immediately suspect foul play.

To avoid a maximum sentence, David Waters tells police the dark story of what really happened to the O'Hair family.

Mimi Swartz, Writer for 'Vanity Fair' and Executive Editor for 'Texas Monthly Magazine,' talks about how the Madalyn Murray O'Hair story came about as well as what her most memorable moment was while writing.

In 1980, a pair of serial killers nicknamed the “Hillside Strangler” and “Freeway Killer” torment citizens of Los Angeles.

Buzz Bissinger, Contributing Editor for 'Vanity Fair' talks about how the idea came about for the Runaway Doctor story as well as if he keeps in touch with any of the people featured in the story.

These American soldiers are determined to take public one of the country’s best-kept military secrets, no matter the consequences.