Secrets of the Dead

- Season 6

(2005)

World War 2 offered few spoils for the victors. But the Nazi nuclear and aeronautical scientists were a well recognized prize that could have geopolitical implications in the post war world. The desperate efforts of Russians and Allies to capture the scientists, their equipment and creations are described.

On October 6, 2004, FBI agents began digging up a Queens swamp in the hopes of finding the remains of the man who killed John Gotti's son. Instead, they unearthed a severed foot and other pieces of human skeleton, along with personal effects. Forensic tests tied the remains to Mob family captains who had been killed by mob boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino. This program documents the search which opens a window into the grisly world of the mob.

The story of Australia's founding mothers and their bawdy journey to a new land as convicts on a floating brothel. Female convicts set up a brothel for sailors on a ship sailing from London to Australia in 1789.

The sinking of the Italian luxurious cruiser Andrea Doria after a collision with a Swedish ship in 1956 is covered. The official cause of the accident was never disclosed. The wreck is so deep, some divers died trying to reach it.

The mysteries behind the apparent Cold War murder of political dissident and author, Georgi Markov, a vocal anti-communist Bulgarian defector assassinated in London in 1979, are revealed.