Ted Kaczynski sent the FBI on a $50 million manhunt. We investigate how his childhood as a prodigy led him to academic glory at Harvard.
Overview
Mysterious events, compelling figures and great unanswered questions from the past are explored, with a focus on the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes; the CIA's top-secret experiments; the Unabomber and; little known stories from NASA's Apollo missions.
Episodes
S01E01 The Hunt for Hitler
45 min
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin concealed Hitler’s body from the West for decades. The FBI spent years tracking false leads and sightings of Hitler. Only in the 1990s did Russians open archives to reveal a handful...
Police closed the case of the infamous Boston Strangler when Albert De Salvo confessed to the grisly murder of 13 women. But recent forensic evidence reveals the Strangler could still be at large.
In 1918 Russia's last imperial dynasty, the Romanovs, were assassinated. But doubts remain as to whether all members of the royal family were put to death. Did the Tsar's daughter, Anastasia, escape?
On July 8, 1947, the U.S. Army issued a press statement claiming to have recovered a flying saucer on a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico. But within hours they retracted the statement saying they had...
For 20 years, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of the mafia. Was it because he was being blackmailed by them, with the threat of being exposed as a gambler and cross-dresser?
As world famous aviator Amelia Earhart closed in on her record-setting attempt to fly around the world in July 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - vanishing without a trace. Did she run...
How and why did a man so rich, so accomplished and so visible become so reclusive, phobic and fragile? How much truth is there in the popular image of Hughes' descent into madness? What can...
NGC delves into the tumultuous history of the atom bomb - filled with deception, twists and danger that even Hollywood couldn't make up. Culling from rarely seen archival footage and interviews with leading experts, we'll...
Documentary exploring the remarkable escape of three prisoners from the fortress-like penitentiary in 1962, and the still-ongoing US Marshals investigation to track them down.
Charles Lindbergh becomes the world’s most famous man in 1927 when he flies non-stop from New York to Paris. But behind the legend was a man who juggled multiple secret lovers and took on a...
Seven years after a deadly anthrax attack in the US, the FBI announces a suspect. But the man committed suicide just days before being accused. Is he a scapegoat in a case that will never...
There's more to Abraham Lincoln than meets the eye. Far from a simple lawyer who freed the slaves, Lincoln is actually a shrewd manipulator. Explore his hidden political and strategic genius.