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Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer--Richard Cottingham, nicknamed the Torso Killer.

Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti continues his mission to tie Cottingham to additional murders and to get him to confess to more cold-case homicides.

A 16-year-old is walking home from a party when she becomes lost. A passing driver pulls over and offers his assistance. Little does she realize, that her would-be savior is actually a serial killer.

In November of 1986, Josephina Rivera's life comes to a devastating halt when she's kidnapped by Gary Heidnik. Over the next four months, Josephina lives shackled in a basement while her captor abducts four more women. Josephina recounts her tale.

In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted and held captive for 3 horrific days but managed to escape. Once her kidnapper is taken to jail, an intense FBI investigation revealed that he has an entire torture chamber unlike anything investigators have ever seen.

In September of 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend's house in Garden Grove, CA. David recounts in his own words his persistence and unfailing bravery in the mission to lock up the Freeway Killer.

Following a deadly brawl between the Hells Angels and Mongols Motorcycle Clubs in 2002, Cavazos came to national prominence. During his reign as the Mongols' president, he expanded the club's membership by recruiting local street thugs.

This episode explores the gangland matriarch Maria "Chata" Leon and the criminal underworld created by her murderous brood of gangbanger children.

Christopher Coke was the notorious leader of the international gang, the Shower Posse. His operation transported drugs to major US cities, sold them for massive profits, and purchased weapons on the black market to export back to his native country.

This episode features the rise and fall of Johnny Eng, one of the most notorious drug traffickers in the history of Manhattan's Chinatown.

In Tampa, Florida, Santo Trafficante Sr. and his son lived as two of America's most powerful and feared mob bosses.

For over thirty years, Richard Kuklinski lived a shocking double life: suburban husband and father at home, and brutal contract killer on the streets--a job that give him the nickname "The Ice Man."

Fashioning himself a modern-day Celtic warrior, 1970's Irish mobster Danny Greene clashed with the Cleveland mafia, resulting in a bombing war that would eventually destroy them both.

The Chicago underworld was thrown into chaos when Frank Calabrese Jr., son of mobster Frank Calabrese, flipped against his father, and started a chain reaction that nearly brought down the vaunted Chicago Outfit.

With over 30 years as the head of the Colombo crime family, Carmine Persico stands as one of most enduring Godfathers in mafia history--but his time at the top came from a ruthless drive for power, a drive that earned him the nickname, "The Snake."

He was one of the most successful and notorious members of the Italian-American Mafia. During Tommy's tenure as underboss and boss of what would come to be known as the Lucchese crime family.

The fifth child of 13 children, John Joseph Gotti, Jr. was born October 27, 1940 in the South Bronx. From a very young age, John Gotti made a name for himself in the neighborhood as the leader of the Fulton-Rockaway Boys, a group of young thugs.

For over thirty years, Gregory Scarpa lived a charmed triple life: mafia hit man, loving father and husband, and secret FBI informant--until a fatal disease weakened the man that had become known as "The Grim Reaper."

Part 1 tells of the childhood and youth of John Gotti Junior and his father's rise to power in the world of organized crime. We also follow the years leading to John Junior becoming a made member of the Gambino Crime Family.

In Part 2, the FBI is focused on taking down Gotti and the Gambino Crime family, as well as the bosses of all five New York mafia clans. When Gotti's underboss, Sammy Gravano agrees to testify for the government, Gotti Senior is convicted and sentenced