The F.B.I. Files

- Season 5

(2002)

In September 1997, a team of masked gunmen robbed an armored car facility in Los Angeles and made off with nearly $19 million, the largest cash heist in U.S. history. FBI agents began conducting surveillance on a former employee of the facility. With only one piece of physical evidence - a fragment of a vehicle taillight - they hoped to connect him to the crime and find his collaborators.

In July 1996, two men entered a pawnshop in Birmingham, Alabama, and callously murdered the employees. Unbeknownst to the killers, a video surveillance camera recorded the incident. The FBI released images of the crime to the media and agents were quickly able to identify the perpetrators. Now authorities had to find two cold-blooded killers who knew that they were being pursued.

A fugitive drug dealer engaged in a shootout with Nebraska state troopers and evaded capture after a high-speed chase. Authorities immediately set up a statewide manhunt, connecting the fugitive to a murder in the western part of the state. A chance sighting led FBI agents to another confrontation with the killer, who was now more determined than ever to escape the law.

After abducting and assaulting a girl at a bus stop, Maghfoor Mansoor was on the run from police and the FBI. From Vegas to Atlantic City, Mansoor left a trail of theft and violence until he was cornered in a hotel lobby.

On June 19, 1985, convicted bank robber Terry Conner and his partner-in-crime, Joseph Dougherty, escaped on their way to Dougherty's trial. In September, the fugitives used Conner's old m.o. to make the biggest bank robbery in Wisconsin history.

An FBI task force conducts an international manhunt to find a Mexican serial killer.

Massachusetts, 1987: Boston Police Department officer Roy Joseph Sergei is murdered by professional bank robber Ted Otsuki. The result is a joint FBI-BPD -Mexican Federal Police manhunt.

In August 1984, the son of a successful real estate developer was kidnapped in Miami. After the father received a $3 million ransom demand from a self-proclaimed terrorist, the FBI became involved and agents began to suspect a pair of Colombian nationals with a known grudge against the businessman's family.

Three Black men take Amy Shaw's family hostage at her parents SC home. Jeburk forces Amy to return to the bank were she worked in GA and break into the vault.

Three men murder a innocent man as part of an initiation into a Cleveland Ohio biker gang.

A kidnapper calls the victim's family.

Domestic terrorism is an especially vivid threat to Americans; the FBI has created specialized teams to root out and dismantle terrorist operations, and put away those criminals whose secretive, leaderless cells are well armed and very dangerous.

In August 1992, a man returned to his Memphis home and discovered that his wife was missing. The husband, his friends, family and neighbors began to receive ransom calls. Authorities noticed that one neighbor seemed to have a rapport with the kidnapper and began to question his level of involvement, knowing that he could be their only link to the missing woman.

A trail of violent bank robberies lead the FBI to suspect involvement from an unlikely source.

Brothers' greed causes them to abandon all respect for human life.

An anonymous tip links the kidnapping of a jeweler with a bank robbery two months earlier.

In January 1984, a U.S. Customs officer disappeared from his post near the Del Rio, Texas border crossing, prompting local police to search for four Latin American suspects. The following day, the official was found dead. Local police and the FBI continued searching for the suspects, prepared for a confrontation with desperate criminals.

A marine salvager found the bodies of three drug dealers floating in a river. FBI agents suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts.