The FBI Files

Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her own slumber party and murdered, lasers helped the FBI identify and find the perpetrator. It took 200 FBI agents two months to find Richard Allen Davis, who was convicted and sentenced to death.

Thomas Dillon killed five outdoorsmen over a period of three years in rural Ohio. A mothers letter published in the newspaper addressing the murderer of her son prompted the killer to respond. Thomas Dillon was arrested and ultimately convicted.

Two couples found themselves on the same deserted island paradise, but only one couple left alive. Buck Walker and Stephanie Sterns arrived in Hawaii on the Sea Wind, which belonged to the missing couple, Mac and Muff Graham. Years later, Buck Walker was convicted of murder.

No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. When one of the killers victims survived, the FBI was able to identify 31-year-old Bobby Joe Long as the suspect. Long was later convicted on eight of the murders and rape.

He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years. Two men died and more than a dozen were injured , but Ted Kaczynski wasnt known as the Unabomber until his brother tipped off the FBI. Kaczynskis Manifesto, published in major newspapers, set off a flurry of activity for the FBI: writing analysis and comparisons, DNA gleaned from a single postage stamp and finally, Kaczynskis arrest at his tiny cabin. The agents collected enough evidence, including the Manifesto itself, to convict Kaczynski. He is serving four life sentences plus 30 years with no chance of parole.

On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage. Six people died and more than a thousand were injured in the bomb blast which tore a 5-story crater in the building. Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima, Ahmad Ajaj, Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil were convicted and will spend the rest of their lives in prison.

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers, who set out to educate southern blacks about receiving the right to vote, disappeared in Mississippi. The FBI gained the trust of an informant, whose information led to the conviction of seven local Ku Klux Klan members.

A multiple murder-for-hire plot that was meticulously planned and executed. A mother, her 8-year-old son, and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. the FBI was able to zero in on Larry Horn, the father of the 8-year-old.

A young boy and his mother are kidnapped and murdered by a drug cartel.

The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. FBI profilers mapped the criminals mind.

Lured by the easy wealth of the narcotics industry, crooked cops in the New Orleans Police Department began breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold in the early 1990s.

A couple engaged in a gruesome crime spree that spanned six states and left eight people dead-including children.

The FBI began a massive undercover operation designed to expose the Chicago Mafias infiltration into the citys surrounding suburbs.

The bodies of several women began turning up in and around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help.

Two brothers gained national attention after a videotaped shoot-out with state and local officers in Wilmington, Ohio. The brothers escaped and fled the state.

Six black males had been brutally murdered--two had their hearts cut out. The only thing connecting the victims was their ethnicity and the fact that each had been shot with .22 caliber bullets.

A woman vanishes, and police suspect that her powerful ex-lover, a married man, was responsible. When investigators cant find the womans body or the murder weapon, the FBIs only hope was to go undercover and turn brother against brother.

Masked bandits pulled off a daring mid-day bank robbery. With no evidence leaving behind, the FBI forced their own luck.

A stranger snatched an eight-year-old girl as she played in her Tucson, Arizona neighborhood. Within hours, a drifter who was out on parole for abducting and molesting children, but he was nowhere to be found and time had run out.

New Jersey millionaire Frank Black flew to Florida to close a major business deal and never came home. FBI Agents learned of a mystery woman in Florida who was meet Black. Eventually they untangled a web of deceit that led to a vengeance killing.

The decapitation of a young African-American male led the Miami-Dade PD and the FBI along a trail of murder. Investigators quickly discovered that the victim was a dissident member of a religious sect headed by a man calling himself Yahweh ben Yahweh, or God, Son of God.

Police and FBI agents track a serial killer in a cross-country manhunt.

A armored car robbery near New York City left one guard dead and another critically wounded. The FBI suspected a large group of domestic terrorists with a history of violent crime.

David Wilkey was shot to death on a hunting ground in rural Virginia. When this seemed to be an accident, investigators suspected foul play. Two years later, a man contacted North Carolina FBI agents with a complex story of conspiracy and murder-for-hire.

In the season 3 finale, Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods. After a 10-year-old boy became a victim, the FBI formed a task force called C-11, designed to dismantle the gangs.

Bank robbers raided cities across seven states. The stakes were raised when the FBI discovered the robbers had an agenda beyond their personal wealth. The FBI needed to capture the leaders before their organization grew.

A class field trip ended with an 11-year-old girl missing. The FBI joined the investigation in an urgent search for the missing girl.

A radio dispatcher notifies agents of a missing armored van and guards.

A young mother was gunned down in front of her children. Family members offered a startling clue of the secrets of the woman. Investigations revealed a web of money, drugs and murder.

Two young men went on a crime spree of robbery, kidnapping and murder, and then disappeared. The pursuit would take FBI agents across six states.

A young woman was snatched from her home on a bright spring morning. After several days of searching, a former FBI profiler narrowed the suspect list to one.

An Indiana town was turned inside out when an officer was gunned down at point-blank range. A psychotic killer led investigators across the Midwest.

A mother discovered her 10 year-old son was missing from his school. The search would cover a thousand miles. Agents were raced to find the kidnapper and the missing child.

A 13-year-old was kidnapped on her way to school. The father drove hundreds of miles through the night to deliver the ransom cash to rescue his young daughter.

Chronicling an investigation that took authorities across Alabama to Virginia in search of cousins suspected in seven deaths, robbery and possession of multiple firearms.

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.

The hunt for serial killer Angel Resendiz, also known as the "Railroad Killer."

The son of a successful real estate developer was kidnapped. After the father received a $3 million ransom demand, the FBI became involved. Criminal profiling helped track down the kidnapper.

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

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.

After a string of bank robberies in Illinois, Chicago, the FBI began to suspect that a police officer was responsible for the crimes. With the holdups becoming increasingly violent, authorities set out to capture the dangerous killer.

In 1993, a robber surprised unsuspecting customers by dropping through the roof of a California bank. A local resident led police and FBI agents to the perpetrator. However, they learned that he had also masterminded a kidnapping – and had a hostage.

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.

In 1993, a 74-year-old man is found suffocated in his home with his credit cards stolen. Investigators were alerted that the killers had used the man’s credit cards and with this information, the FBI was able to link the crime to an escaped prisoner.

In December 1981, a New Jersey State Trooper was shot to death on the side of Interstate 80. Fingerprints on the suspect’s vehicle pointed to a fugitive wanted on bank robbery charges.

In 2000, the FBI was overwhelmed with investigations in Seattle, which had the third-highest number of bank robberies in the nation. Agents focused on a series of heists in which two armed men seemed to know where the banks stored their money.

After an Arkansas State Trooper is shot and killed, officers catch the murderer and find weapons and explosives in the man’s vehicle. Testing of the weapons leads them to a stand-off with a racist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group.

In 1987, Cuban prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Prison used homemade weapons to overthrow the staff. Soon, the inmates controlled most of the buildings, taking over 100 hostages. The FBI was forced to negotiate with the hostiles to end the standoff.

In 1996, a series of bank robberies in Texas and California were linked by FBI who then established a modus operandi. A year later, the robbers took hostages during a heist in Las Vegas and the FBI was tasked with ending their spree.

In 1997, two men used a sledgehammer to break into a Camden, NJ, home. Police tracked the suspects to a nearby park but the criminals were able to escape after a shootout. When new clues emerged, the FBI was called in to locate the suspects.

In the 1970s, a Croatian terrorist group linked to the National Resistance party committed acts against non-supportive Croatians living in the US. With the help of an informant, the FBI convicted members of crimes ranging from conspiracy to murder.

In 1985, a Lebanese terrorist and his accomplices hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 405 in Beirut. Several Americans were on board. The FBI worked with other agencies to form Operation Goldenrod, a task force to bring the mastermind to justice.

In the 1970s and 80s, a Puerto Rican separatist group, FALN, set off bombs in major U.S. cities. Advocating complete independence for Puerto Rico, the group went on a major bombing spree and FBI agents found themselves racing against time to put a stop to their violent activities.

In the 1980s, the FBI targeted a sharp bank robber known as the Shootist. He had performed more than 50 robberies across California, Texas and Washington with military precision, claiming the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in history.

In the 1980s, gangs ruled the streets of Chicago. Led by Jeff Fort, the dangerous, power-hungry El Rukn gang attempted to conspire with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism for money.

In 1980, a maid discovered that a copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, was actually a bomb. Agents and bomb experts were called in to disarm the deadly device and stop the dangerous extortionist who built it.

After a parole officer was found shot dead in his car, the FBI, DEA and NYPD struggled to contain gang-related drug violence. Authorities sought to put two drug kingpins, Howard “Pappy” Mason and Lorezno “Fat Cat” Nichols, behind bars for the crime.

When an 80-year-old woman is found barely conscious next to the body of her murdered son in an abandoned van, the FBI was brought in and linked the crime to a teenager and middle-aged man.

On July 4, 1987, seven inmates broke out of a high-security prison in New Mexico. Murderer William Wayne Gilbert orchestrated the escape. In a manhunt, authorities and scientists used the Bureau’s crime laboratory to catch these dangerous criminals.

A series of bizarre shootings terrorized the small town of East Point, GA, and left two people dead and two others critically wounded. As the body count climbed, the killer taunted law enforcement with mysterious notes.

In the 1990s, a gang based in the U.S. Virgin Islands smuggled large amounts of cocaine into mainland America. In an investigation spanning from Georgia to South America, the FBI and DEA were able to identify the leader and bring down the drug ring.