A Crime to Remember

Synopsis

Showcasing the most compelling crimes of yesteryear, when secrets festered, passions ran wild and cops had nothing but shoe-leather and gut instinct to catch a killer. Fashions may change but murder never goes out of style.

First Air Date: 2013-11-12

Last Air Date: 2018-04-07

Number of Seasons: 5

Number of Episodes: 38

Networks: Investigation Discovery

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Top Cast

Betsey Brown as Gretchen Fritz (1 episode)
Michelle McNamara as Herself
Norman Aaronson as Mary's Dad
Chase Anderson as Chip Sheppard
Sashia Dumont as Housekeeper
Erica Genereux Smith as Margaret
Henry Gagliardi as Neighbor kid
Katrine Hoyt as Mack's Mom
Nyahale Allie as Narrator (voice)
Alyssa Marvin as Amelia Snyder (12)

Seasons

Season 1 (2013) - (6 Episodes)

Season 2 (2014) - (8 Episodes)

Season 3 (2015) - (8 Episodes)

Season 4 (2016) - (8 Episodes)

Season 5 (2018) - (8 Episodes)

Season 1 (2013)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Go Ask Alice (2013-11-12)

Queens, NY, 1965. Two children disappear in the night, taken from their bedroom. Hours later they turn up dead, strangled. The police have no clues but an instant dislike for the parents: Eddie (20's) and Alice Crimmins (26). They are separated and fighting over custody of the kids. She seems more concerned about her make-up and appearance than her dead kids; he seems to be obsessed with her many love affairs. Cops think one of them did it, but it will take twelve years to unravel the truth.
Ep. 2: The Career Girl Murders (2013-11-19)

New York, NY, 1963. When two young women - just out of college, starting their first jobs in The Big City - wind up dead in their Upper East Side apartment, raped, mutilated, the victims of a terrible, heinous attack, the City is thrown into chaos. If these girls aren't safe, who is? The NYPD is under such pressure to solve the high-profile case it makes a tragic mis-step in the investigation of the case the newspapers dub "The Career Girls Murders."
Ep. 3: Judge, Jury, Executioner (2013-11-26)

West Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Judge Curtis Chillingworth (58) and his wife (50's) say their goodbyes to friends at swank dinner party, step into their car and drive away. They are never seen again. When police start investigating they unravel a tale of corruption, moonshine and numbers-running that leaves Florida in shock.
Ep. 4: Time Bomb (2013-12-03)

Denver, CO, 1955. When United Airlines Flight 629 bound for Seattle explodes in mid-air, killing everyone aboard, the new-to-air travel nation grieves over the terrible tragedy. But when crash investigators find a few strange inconsistencies in the wreckage they start to wonder if it was an accident at all. What follows is the discovery of the first-ever act of commercial airline sabotage in the United States...the motive? Money.
Ep. 5: A New Kind of Monster (2013-12-10)

Michigan, 1967. A young co-ed from Eastern Michigan State University goes missing. Her body is found months later, rotting in a field. A year later, another co-ed, disappears and is found stabbed to death. A few months after that, a young law student is found shot and strangled in an Ypsilanti cemetery. The young women of Southeastern Michigan are terrified and the police commence a massive hunt for the monster they call The Co-Ed Killer.
Ep. 6: Who Killed Mr. Woodward? (2013-12-17)

A 1955 shooting involving a pair of New York socialites is recalled.