
The Crimes that Changed Us
162020•43m•8.3/10
DocumentaryCrime
Ratings
🎬TMDb
8.3/10(6)
The stories of murder investigations and their extraordinary consequences, which overturned laws, transformed police interrogation and revolutionised forensic detection.
Production
October Films
Language
EN
Status
Returning Series
First Aired
November 12, 2020
Last Aired
December 31, 2020
Networks
Investigation Discovery
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season

E1
Andrea Yates
Air date: 2020-11-12
Andrea Yates appears to have the perfect family. However, her fascination with extreme religious ideas and hidden postpartum psychosis leads her to believe Satan is sending messages to drown all of her children. What follows is a media firestorm.

E2
Atlanta Olympic Bombing
Air date: 2020-11-19
At the 1996 Olympics, a security guard discovers pipe bombs and clears the area to minimise the fatalities. Praised as a hero, the FBI then decides he fits the domestic terrorist profile, while the real villain continues his terror campaign.
E3
McMartin Preschool Trial
Air date: 2020-11-26
When the parents of children in a California preschool are informed that their kids may have been the victims of sexual abuse, it sets off a chain of panic and catastrophic events that will put an innocent man on trial for the heinous crimes.

E4
The Menendez Brothers
Air date: 2020-12-03
When a Hollywood executive and his wife are brutally killed in a wealthy neighborhood, suspicion falls on their two sons. Charged with the murders, the brothers reveal disturbing family secrets, and the scene is set for one of the most shocking trials.

E5
Selena
Air date: 2020-12-10
A Mexican-American singer is on the cusp of international superstardom when one fateful visit to a Texas motel cuts her young life tragically short. Fans clamor for justice as police negotiators stand-off with an unlikely killer.

E6
The Nanny Trial
Air date: 2020-12-17
Louise Woodward, an 18-year-old au pair from Britain, is accused of murdering eight-month-old Matthew Eappen by violently shaking him. Her trial creates a media firestorm, searing the term "shaken baby syndrome" into America's consciousness.

E7
Patty Hearst
Air date: 2020-12-24
In the seventies' chaos, left wing radicals take heiress Patty Hearst hostage and the media, too. While the FBI focuses their efforts on bank robbery charges, a murder goes unsolved. But the son of the slain Myrna Opsahl holds out for justice.

E8
Rodney King
Air date: 2020-12-31
In 1992 Los Angeles, the brutal police beating of Rodney King is caught on video, igniting outrage. When the officers are let off, fury is unleashed. With testimony from LA residents, this is an intimate account of those dark days.











