72 Hours: True Crime

In 2001, there are a series of murders of homeless people in Toronto. The latest killing is of a gentle man, well known in the area by residents who nicknamed him Santa Claus.

An angel of mercy turns out to be an angel of death when the number of deaths in an Indiana Intensive Care Unit skyrockets. One astute nurse believes there must be more to this than just natural causes.

A cunning arsonist stays one step ahead of the police and terrifies a small farming community until behavioural profiling help detectives zero in on a very unlikely suspect.

In 1998, in a normally peaceful suburb, a pervert on a bicycle appears, performing sexual acts on himself and then attacking teenage girls. For reasons apparent to the residents, they nickname him after the Scottish Loch Ness monster.

In 1996 a serial bomber begins planting bombs in public places and terrorizes the Prince Edward Island community. The mystery person leaves a strange swastika as a calling card, eluding capture for eight years.

The investigation of the murder of a shady Montreal businessman takes detectives into the lurid underworld of drug dealers, con men, and crooked lawyers.

In 1971, before the era of airport security, a Black Panther hijacks a plane to Havana, Cuba. A thirty-year old cold case is finally solved in 2002 by a fluke of modern technology.

In a Toronto suburb during the summer of 1996, a man leaves home for a business trip. He doesn't return. Fearing foul play, his desperate wife finally reports her husband's disappearance to the police.

Every woman's worst nightmare comes to life when a bearded sexual predator starts attacking women in the safety of their own apartments while they are sleeping.

A frat boy lures a girl to his house with the promise of a party, but once there it turns out he has ulterior motives. When the girl says no, he violently attacks her. A string of violence is finally uncovered, revealing a sinister trail of crime and violence.

Three teenagers accompany a deliveryman to a densely wooded area for a drinking party that, before long, becomes a nightmare. Things take a terrifying turn when one of teens attacks the others. While examining the scene, police are surprised to stumble upon a previous crime.

A young Orthodox Jewish man is in Pittsburgh to celebrate Passover with family when he is gunned down simply because of the way he is dressed.

A man robs an armoured car at gunpoint and holds a massage parlor worker hostage. As police investigate, they find startling links to a series of robberies, all taking place during the Christmas season.

In Calgary, Alberta, a beautiful Ethiopian woman is found brutally strangled. The victim's husband seems genuinely distraught over his wife's death, but there is something strangely suspicious about him.

In 1986, an American becomes one of Canada's most prolific bank and jewellery bandits after he pulls off one of the biggest heists in Canadian history. As more robberies occur, the police become ever more determined to catch the mastermind behind them all.

In 1994, a troubled single mother is found raped and murdered in her apartment. Was it one of the volatile men in her life? All possible suspects are eliminated and the case goes cold for three years, until a nine-year old girl is brutally raped and the DNA data bank offers a match.

A wealthy Asian girl is kidnapped in Vancouver. When the kidnappers make the fateful error of using the young girl's cell phone, police are able to track their movements and capture the assailants.

Two murders of mothers in their own homes send shock-waves through a normally quiet and friendly town where everybody leaves their doors unlocked. The crimes go unsolved until twenty-eight years later when an astute veteran detective stumbles across some damning evidence that leads to an arrest.

1995 - Houston, Texas. A lonely man calls a dating service and gets more than he bargained for when he is met at gunpoint and robbed by his "dates". The women, dubbed "Thelma & Louise", lure men with the promise of sex but then drug and rob them. Who are they, and who is the mysterious puppet-master behind their actions?