The Shocking Truth

Overview

This compelling documentary series digs deep into notorious real-life murders and paranormal events and explores how Hollywood turned them into its most memorable thrillers.

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S01E01 The Shocking Truth: The Silence of the Lambs

February 6, 2017 22 min
Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history when author Thomas Harris used him as his inspiration for the murderous "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs. With stars Jodie...

S01E02 The Shocking Truth: The Amityville Horror

February 6, 2017 22 min
It's a home right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. But behind the walls of the picturesque three-story house on 112 Ocean Avenue, in lay a deep dark secret. It was the site of brutal...

S01E03 The Shocking Truth: The Exorcist

February 20, 2017 22 min
It's 1949 and a strange series of inexplicable events have turned a small brick home in St. Louis into a scene straight from hell. A 13-year-old boy is at the center of a series of...

S01E04 The Shocking Truth: Goodfellas

February 20, 2017 22 min
Henry Hill knew he wanted to be a gangster by the time he was 13 years old. But after 20 years of gambling, arson and drug dealing and the infamous Luftansa Heist, he was running...

S01E05 The Shocking Truth: Zodiac

March 6, 2017 22 min
A cold-blooded killer begins his reign of terror in 1969. A panicked San Francisco lies in the grip of fear. Nobody knows where - or when - he will strike next. In his taunts to...

S01E06 The Shocking Truth: The Conjuring

March 6, 2017 22 min
The Conjuring is one of the scariest movies of all time, but the shocking truth is that the horrifying events that happened in the movie really happened to the Perron Family in their Harrisville farmhouse...

S01E07 The Shocking Truth: Psycho

March 13, 2017 22 min
On the surface, he looks perfectly harmless. But behind those innocent looking eyes is the soul of a killer. Norman Bates from Psycho is one of the most memorable psychopaths in movie history. But the...

S01E08 The Shocking Truth: Foxcatcher

March 13, 2017 22 min
As the heir to a billion dollar fortune, John Eleuthere du Pont, could buy whatever or whoever he wanted. When the avid wrestling fan persuades gold-medal winner Dave Schultz to join his team, he thinks...

S01E09 The Shocking Truth: Natural Born Killers

March 20, 2017 22 min
In 1957, Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree that shocks people to this day. With his girlfriend Caril Anne Fugate in tow, the two cut a swath across the peaceful Nebraska countryside leaving bodies...

S01E10 The Shocking Truth: Fargo

March 20, 2017 22 min
Danish flight attendant Helle Crafts goes mysteriously missing after starting divorce proceedings against her philandering husband. Her body is never found but police discover enough evidence on a wood chipper to arrest and convict her...

S01E11 The Shocking Truth: Monster

March 27, 2017 22 min
Richard Mallory was an electronics-store owner in Florida who went missing November 30, 1989. When county police discovered his car the next day, they suspected foul play, but no one could have imagined that this...

S01E12 The Shocking Truth: Jaws

March 27, 2017 22 min
During the summer of 1916, the resort beaches of the Jersey Shore ran red with blood. For 12 days the Jersey man-eater terrorized the Eastern Seaboard. Five people were attacked and only one survived, leaving...

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