City Confidential

- Season 1

(1998)

Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret are gunned down in their Biloxi home in 1987. The investigation leads police to a prison scam, an inmate named Kirksey Nix, and Sherry's best friend Pete Halat.

Helen Vorhees Brach mysteriously disappears in 1977. During the investigation, the police discover Brach's con-man lover, RIchard Bailey, and a horse fraud ring unlike any seen before.

Steven Christensen and Gary Sheets are sent mail bombs which kill Christensen and Sheets' wife in 1985. A third bomb wounds Mark Hoffman, who turns out to be a top document forger who owed Christensen and Sheets money for forged Mormon church documents and tried to get rid of his debts by killing them.

In 1990, George Walterfield Russell, a charming regular on the club scene, is revealed to be a psychopath after Mary Ann Pohlreich, Andrea Levine, and another woman are found dead and their bodies posed in similar positions.

Martha Brailsford was a well-liked woman who struck up a friendship with Tom Maimoni in 1991. During a boat outing, Maimoni killed Martha and threw her overboard from his boat.

In 1986, Stan Cohen is shot three ties in the head with his own gun. His wife, Joyce, pleaded her innocence, bu the investigation led the police to an unhappy marriage, Joyce's cocaine problem, and the thugs Joyce hired to kill Stan.

In 1994, Kim Groves was gunned down in her front yard after Len Davis, a police officer who did side-work in dealing cocaine, ordered her death because she knew too much. A sting operation caught Davis ordering Groves' death, but it was too late.

David "Stringbean" Akeman, a Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star, and his wife, Estelle, are found murdered in 1973. The investigation led police to two cousins, John and Doug Brown, who had heard about Akeman's secret stash of money, and killed the Akemans in a robbery gone wrong.

In 1982, Alice McArthur, the wife of Bill, a prominent criminal defense attorney, is killed by two men delivering flowers. The investigation led to may Lee Orsini, a woman who wanted Bill as more than a lawyer, and the two men delivering the "flowers".

In 1989, Larry Volk was shot in the head by David Lemons, a man hired by Soni Beckham and John Sipes. Beckham and Sipes plotted to kill Volk because of his cooperation with the Gaming Control Board in which he agreed to confess that he "fixed" machines so they wouldn't pay jackpots.

Nancy Lyon was rushed to the hospital in 1991 by her husband after she is experiencing symptoms of a severe stomach flu and dies that night. Her true cause of death, arsenic, is discovered, and an investigation reveals an unhappy marriage with one of the premier couples of the wealthy Dallas suburb of Park Cities.

Jeff and Kathy Willets ran a brothel out of their own home, which attracted some of the best of Ft.Lauderdale. One of her clients, Doug Danziger, was a local man that crusaded for morality in Ft. Lauderdale. After the cops raided the Willets' business in 1991, they found out that one of her clients was Danziger which led to a media frenzy.