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Columbo

Dead Weight

Synopsis:   In his waterfront home, a retired major general kills a military colonel, and the only witness is a young, easily-manipulated divorcée.


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Honey West

A Neat Little Package

Synopsis:   Suffering from amnesia - an increasingly worried newspaper seller hires Honey and Sam to investigate how $150,000 found its way into the trunk of his car.


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MIT - Murder Investigation Team

Charity & Vice
Synopsis:  Homicide detectives are called in when construction workers discover the body of a woman, buried up to her neck in the concrete foundation of a two-story building.



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LA Dragnet

Redemption

Synopsis: Beautiful, wealthy, loved by her family & engaged to be married, 26-year-old business consultant Lisa Paris is found dead - alone in her two story house. 

Add to that - the blunt force trauma to her head, and the front door to her house left wide open - detectives Friday and Beltran cannot write this off as mere "suicide". 


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Robbery Homicide Division 

City of Strivers

Synopsis:   A security guard calls police to report a burglary has occurred at an airport warehouse.

Subsequent investigation leads cops to suspect to an LA street gang...


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The Streets of San Francisco

Inferno

Synopsis:   Detectives Mike Stone and Steve Keller team up with Fire Inspector Jack "Jacko" O'Malley to track down a cold-hearted contract arsonist. 


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Columbo

Candidate for Crime

Synopsis:  After faking a series of death threats against himself - senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward (Jackie Cooper) murders his own campaign manager. 

To throw off the investigation - the candidate stages it to look like the gunman intended to kill the candidate himself, but mistakenly killed his campaign manager instead.




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EDITOR'S CHOICE!

Law & Order

Big Bang

Synopsis:  When a letter bomb kills a woman in her Greenwich Village apartment - detectives turn their attention to a mad scientist seeking revenge! 


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Docudrama

Shattered Glass

Based On A True Story: Researching an article about computer hackers, a young journalist gets more than he bargained for...

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Columbo

Prescription Murder

Synopsis:  After murdering his wife, a wealthy psychiatrist evades authorities, seeking help from his mistress, and an old college friend now working for the DA's Office.    

 



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LA Dragnet

The Artful Dodger

Synopsis:  During a successful multi-million dollar jewel heist, one customer is singled out and executed for no apparent reason, and detectives Friday and Smith are determined to find out why. 

While investigating the case - detectives meet a British insurance company investigator who attempts to manipulate the investigation to help her recover the stolen jewels. Friday also knocks heads with the arrogant owner of a private security company.


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Columbo

Murder By The Book

Original TV movie written by Steve Bochco, directed by Steven Spielberg.


Synopsis:  

Murder-mystery novelists Ken Franklin and James Ferris have become successful as the writing partnership of the popular Mrs. Melville crime fiction novels

Not exactly "classic literature", but from checkout stands to yard sales - Mrs. Melville has always provided comfortable income for the two authors.

In reality however, the actual "writer" is the shy, artistic James Ferris - while the wildly extravagant Ken Franklin is more their "pitch-man". 

  

But when Ferris wants to depart to try serious writing on his own, Franklin knows their mutual life insurance policy is a treasure just waiting to be tapped!

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After killing his partner, one thing Ken Franklin doesn't count on is a blackmailing witness and a police detective who won't be led astray...

Law & Order

Apocrypha

Synopsis:  When a car bomb is detonated inside the underground parking garage of a Wall St. Financial Building – the investigation leads detectives through a cacophony of drugs, banks, cathedrals, and a wild array of flavourful characters who leave lasting impressions…!




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LA Dragnet

The Big Ruckus

Synopsis:  Police investigate the midnight murder of a wealthy video producer in a seedy downtown park frequented by homeless and drug traffic. 

 

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Law & Order UK

Defence

Synopsis:  After Lunch when an employee returns to his work place at a vintage clothing store, he sees a gory blood bath - his co-workers & one customer have all been slaughtered by someone wielding a sword!!

The investigation leads detectives through a maze of health clinics, libraries, and cosmetic shops.

When they make the arrest - the perpetrator is full of surprises...


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Columbo

Death Lends A Hand

Synopsis:  When a private investigator threatens to tell a woman’s husband about her extramarital affair – she counters saying she’s going to tell him first, and she’s also going to expose the private investigator’s blackmail scheme.

The following morning LAPD Detective Columbo is called to investigate a dead body found in a Sylmar wrecking yard.


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Law & Order

Renunciation

Synopsis:  Walking his dog late at night – a tall 30-something white guy is hit by a car killing him instantly.  

But eyewitness testimony and absence of skid marks suggest this was no accident...


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Law & Order UK

Mortal

Synopsis:   Following a break-in, a frail, elderly woman is found dead in her flat.  DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Sam Casey suspect a robbery gone wrong and treat it as murder.


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NON-FICTION

The Jodi Arias Timeline

Written & narrated by Brian Newberry, this audible programme chronicles the years leading up to the violent murder of Travis V. Alexander by his girlfriend Jodi Arias, in his house in Mesa, Arizona.


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LIMITED TWO-WEEK SERIESMay 26 - June 7, 2020

Project Wasabi's audible recap of important events from around the world...





Non-Fiction

Grand Jury Indictment, February 2018

The complete 37-page indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Washington amounts to a detailed rebuttal of Donald Trump, who has sowed doubts that Russia interfered in the election and dismissed questions about its meddling as “fake news.”

LEGACY OF GREED

The true crime story of Larry Phillips Jr & Emil Matasareanu - the violent bandits responsible for a spate of armed robberies culminating in 1997's Bank of America Robbery, North Hollywood. 

For a bibliography of source articles, maps, research and videos, check out Legacy of Greed; SPECIAL FEATURES


Non-Fiction

HUGH THOMPSON 

My Lai Massacre Whistle-Blower



available only on YouTube.

From the Wikipedia article, helicopter, pilot Hugh Thompson was the whistle-blower who exposed the atrocities in the My Lai Massacre in which a group of US soldiers maliciously slaughtered more than 70 unarmed Vietnamese civilian non-combatants as they were fleeing