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Killer Mom Thinks She Got Away With It, Until Her Twin Daughters Secretly Outsmart Her | The Case of Jennifer & Kristina Beard | UNSEEN Nov 03, 2023

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“Am I going in this casket soon?” --

It’s April 2000, Kristina Beard is desperately trying to get ahold of her twin sister Jennifer. They only have 6 hours to disappear and get to safety before it’s too late, after giving police the key piece of evidence they need that will finally put an end to the escalating plot of a psychotic killer: their own mother.

External footage from: "Deadly Women: Blood for Money" (S3 E2, Discovery+), "Power, Privilege & Justice: Gold Digger" (S3 E1, True Crime Central), "Who do you believe: What the sisters saw" (Part 1-2, ABC), "Tainted Love" (ABC), "Black Widow: Celeste Beard-Johnson - Women Who Kill" (Channel 4), "Millionaire Murder" (S1 E8, On the Case with Paula Zhan), "Women Behind Bars" (S1 E9, FilmRise True Crime), "Rude Awakening: Someone They Knew" (Tamron Hall, Court TV).

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The 2000 San Diego Bank Heist | The Disturbing Case of Michelle Renee | UNSEEN Oct 26, 2023

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“Rob the bank, or she blows up”

November 20th 2000, 7 year old Breea Renee notices something strange: “mom, there’s someone outside the window”. A day later, 3 masked men break into her house and hold them at gunpoint before strapping Breea with dynamite. Michelle is given an unimaginable mission: rob the bank, or your daughter will be blown up - she sets off to Bank of America for the dangerous heist.

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The Family Court Murders: The Terrifying Case of Andrea Blanchard & Trudi | UNSEEN Oct 20, 2023

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“We were next on his hit list” -- On July 21st 1985 , single mom Andrea Blanchard lives in fear, hiding with her daughter Trudi. Whenever the phone rings, she knows bad news will follow: another bomb exploded, and this time, hundreds of people are severely injured. For years, cops are afraid of him and can’t stop him, but Andrea knows she’s the only one who can put an end to all the killings, because she knows what the Family Court Bomber wants: 7 year old Trudi.

External footage from: "The Family Court Murders" TV Series (ABC TV Australia), "Leonard Warwick's Timeline of Crimes" (ABC TV Australia), "Catching a Mad Man: Tracking Down Sydney's Family Court Bomber" (7 News), "Family Court Bomber Leonard Warwick Sentenced to Life in Prison" (ABC News Australia), "Ex-wife Leaves Sydney Court After Testifying at Bombings Trial" (The Courier Mail).

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The Bluebeard Killer | The Disturbing Case of Mary Rose & Annette Craver | UNSEEN Oct 12, 2023

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"Something is wrong with my daughter" --

After years of searching for her daughter Annette, Mary discovers a disturbing secret in the husband’s past – Annette isn’t the only one gone. One wife drowned, two others missing: what is this man hiding? What happened to the girls? Mary decides to lead her investigation, and find out the truth about Felix Vail.

External footage from: "The Real Story with Maria Elena Selinas: A Mother's Quest" (ID - Lucky 8), "People Magazine Investigates: Gone Girls" (Discovery - Radley Studios), "20/20: The Last One to See Them" (ABC News), "Tim Howey's Podcast: Bill Vail Interview" (Grace Church), "Mississippi Burning" (1988, Orion Pictures), "Gone: Rose's Letters" (Jerry Mitchell, Clarion-Ledger), "Houston Aerial 4K - Drone Footage" (Barf Media).

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The People's Temple Cult: The Disturbing Case of the Parks Family | UNSEEN Oct 05, 2023

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“He’s going to kill us all” -- On November 18th 1978, Gerald Park tells his 12 year old daughter Tracy to escape in the jungle, and stay hidden until it’s safe. As gunmen and helicopters close in on her, Tracy knows she needs to survive to avenge her mother’s death, and make sure Jim Jones would pay for what he did to her family, and 918 other victims. You might have heard about Jonestown, but this is the story of the little girl who lived.

External footage from: "Return to Jonestown" (CNN), "Jonestown: The life and death of people's temple" (FireLight Media Inc.), "People Magazines Investigate: Cults", "Sunday Night: Return to Jonestown" (7News Spotlight), "Escaped" (Investigation Discovery).

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The Hertfordshire Strangler: The Case of Amanda Wright, the 4 YO Murder Witness | UNSEEN Sep 28, 2023

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“I’ll stop if you stop crying” On the morning of March 4th 1980, in Stevenage England, a milkman is heading to work when he sees smoke coming out of someone’s window, and hears a child screaming. He rushes and breaks the door down, finding a crying little girl, badly burned, and waiting in the stairs: after being rescued, 4 YO Amanda Wright is now the only witness of what really set off the fire in the home that night, unveiling a murder so disturbing that the truth of the events would only come out 36 years later, and bring to justice her mom’s killer for a second time.

External footage from: The Day I Should've Died: Amanda Wright (CBS Reality, ITV), Forensics: Catching the Killer: Killed for Being Kind (Sky TV), London Live: Amanda Wright Interview (Evening Standard), The Mirror, BBC, The Daily Mail, The Comet, the Sun, ITV News, The British Newspaper Archives,

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The Thanksgiving Family Murder | The Case of Ricky Tokars | UNSEEN Sep 21, 2023

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“If anything happens to me, take this to the police” On the late evening of November 29, 1992, a man opens his front door to discover two little boys shivering and covered in blood in an Atlanta suburb. 3 and a half years earlier, Sara Tokars hires a private investigator to follow her husband who she thinks is dangerous and unfaithful. The young mom discovers many dark secrets, including his criminal lifestyle, which would lead her to do anything she can to protect her sons, even if it meant dying while doing so.

External footage from: Homicide for the Holidays: Thanksgiving Terror (Oxygen), Mother's Brutal Thanksgiving Murder Witnessed by her 2 Boys (Oxygen), The Murder of Sara Tokars: Abuse of Power (Oxygen), Deadly Secrets (The FBI Files), The Wife Who Knew Too Much (A&E), Atlanta: Devil Down in Georgia (A&E), Scandal Down South: My Dirty Little Secret (Investigation Discovery), "Fred Tokars, Lawyer & Convicted Wife Killer, Dies in Prison" (Court TV), "GA V. TOKARS" (Court TV).

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The Birnie House of Horrors: The Case of Kate Moir, "Dead Girl Walking" | UNSEEN Sep 14, 2023

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“I had a 200% chance of dying, and 5% chance of getting away” On November 9th, 1986, 17 year old model Kate Moir accepts a ride from a seemingly nice couple, not knowing they’re actually the country’s most dangerous serial killers. Having murdered 4 girls already, Kate knows her time is running out, but she has a plan to escape captivity, that would result in her even being arrested herself by Australian officers.

More about Kate here: https://www.change.org/p/the-attorney-general-s-reformation-of-parole-laws-in-australia

Read her book: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Dead_Girl_Walking.html?id=LZtEvgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

External footage from: Murder Uncovered: David & Catherine Birnie (7News Seven Network), Catherine Birnie: Freedom Bid (9News Nine Network), Crime Investigation Australia: Moorhouse Horrors (GMN Productions, FOXTEL), Most Infamous: The Birnies (GMN Productions, CIN), Perth & Fremantle 1986 (Robert Peter, Peter Hale), Rocky 1976 (Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists), First Blood 1982 (Cinema 84, Orion Pictures).

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The Antifreeze Murders | The Case of Ashley Wallace and the Black Widow | UNSEEN Sep 06, 2023

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“You’re not just a danger to the public, you’re a danger to those who love you” On September 14, 2007, 19yo Ashley Wallace wakes up in a hospital bed, surrounded by police officers accusing her of being a serial killer, after her sister, Bree, found a note in which Ashley confesses to the murders of her father and stepfather; the problem is, Ashley did not write this letter. What happened to her that night would uncover one of the most disturbing serial killers the state of New York has ever seen, the last person Ashley would ever think would want to harm her, or her family.

External footage from: The Devil You Know: Poisonous Love (Make Believe Media), Forensic Files: Freeze Framed (Medstar Television), 20/20 Black Widow (ABC), Solved: Poisoned by Love (Discovery+), Archive Footage

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The Wolf Lodge Family Murders | The Case of Shasta Groene | UNSEEN Aug 23, 2023

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“I can be your daughter” When cops break into the Groene home on May 16th 2005 after receiving a call from a concerned neighbor, no one is prepared to find the family murdered, and as they identify everyone, they notice that the younger children, Dylan, 9, and Shasta, 8, are missing. As the authorities race against time to find the missing kids, Shasta is trapped in the woods with her family’s killer, nearly 100 miles away, and starts to plan her own escape.

External footage from: The Brave Survival of Little Shasta Groene (True Crime Daily), The Most Twisted Case You've Ever Heard (EWU Crime Storytime), "Shasta McClain/Groene" from the Criminal Perspective Podcast, "Shasta Groene Shares Her Journey as a Survivor" (KTVB Extended Interview), "Shasta Groene: Survivor" (KTVB), The Groene Family Massacre (Investigation Discovery), "Joseph Duncan Sentenced for Murder of Anthony Martinez" (The Press - Enterprise), The Idaho Spokesman, 4 News Now, KREM-KXLY.

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