Power, Privilege & Justice

- Season 8

(2008)

A compelling tale of family secrets, greed and murder when Donald and Marsha Levine are found dead in their mansion in affluent Munster, Illinois. Investigation is brought to bear on their only heir, Mark, home at the time and left alive, and Donald's businessman brother Robert Levine. What could have just been a simple robbery turned murder in 1989 looked more to be a case of the son, Mark, and, or his uncle Donald to have motives behind the double murder.

Two sons and a daughter, the sole heirs of Bruce and Darlene Rouse, are the prime suspects of the police in the murder of their parents in their sprawling Lake County, Illinois home. Police are baffled as to which of them is the true culprit or culprits, especially with them pointing the finger at each other until years later when one of them confesses.

Richard, the husband of Nancy Dillard Lyon, is accused of poisoning resulting in her death.

Sam Shoen's wife Eve is shot dead inside their pricey chalet home. Sam's father is the founder of U-Haul. Soon father, Sam, and his two sons are battling over control of the company and who murdered Eve. In addition a drifter with murky ties to this crime turns up to baffle the police further.

There's plenty of suspects for the police to investigate when one of Phoenix's richest men Rick Chance is missing. And, is it over his personal or business life?

Ted Maher goes on trial for the double arson murder of billionaire financier Edmond Safra and Safra's nurse, Vivian Torrente, in Safra's Monaco penthouse.

This notorious case of pretty, vivacious Martha "Sunny" von Bulow pits husband Claus von Bulow against their children who are still convinced he attempted to murder his wife for her wealth. Sunny slips into an irreversible coma in their Rhode Island home and survives almost 28 years in this vegetative state before finally passing away in December 2008 in a New York nursing home. Claus von Bulow was convicted of administering an insulin overdose to his American heiress and popular socialite wife. It was overturned on a second trial when the second trial citing her ...