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About Murder Is Forever

The pages of best-selling author James Patterson's books come alive in this true-crime series, a suspenseful foray into a world of twisted tales that once again proves truth is stranger than fiction.The hourlong episodes feature stylized re-enactments of unique murder mysteries that have enough twists and turns to fill a rollercoaster. But, says Investigation Discovery, what's most shocking is that the mind-bending crimes are 100 percent real. Each self-contained story has an episode title that corresponds with that of a Patterson true-crime paperback.

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Harold Heaven, mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. Local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, but Harold was never found. The case was unceremoniously closed as a likely suicide. 85 years later, his great-great-nephew, Mike, attempts to solve this coldest of cold cases, with the help of his extended family and true-crime-obsessed best friend, Jackson.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is one of the largest police forces in the world, but when the elected sheriff dies, an arcane rule in the county charter, forged back in the Wild West, suddenly thrusts the most unlikely man into the job. Bill Hollister is a fifth-generation lawman who is only interested in justice. The bad guys don't stand a chance but neither do the politicos in the Hall of Justice. The dangers associated with the job often lead the police to LA County General Hospital, where Bill butts heads with the hospital's chief trauma surgeon -- who is also his wife. Given a job he never wanted, in an unfamiliar sea of politics, Bill quickly learns that doing what is expected and doing what is right are two different things, and that his innate, dogged pursuit of justice is the only skill the job truly requires.

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings. While looking into the disappearance of a young woman, investigator Jan Michelsen discovers a 10-year-old case from the same neighbourhood where a 17-year-old girl vanished on her way home from a party. Jan and Louise try to identify the person behind the kidnappings.

In one of America's most iconic cities, a shocking pattern of murder has been unfolding for more than two decades. Since 1999, 51 women - predominantly Black - have been found strangled across Chicago, their bodies dumped in garbage bins, alleyways, and abandoned buildings. To this day all but one of the cases remain unsolved, leading many to believe there is a serial killer - or killers - targeting women in Chicago. Through intimate interviews with families, activists, experts, police and even survivors, The Hunt For The Chicago Strangler remembers the women whose lives were taken and explores the close-knit communities that have been victimized by fear and loss, showcasing the devastating emotional toll that these unsolved crimes have taken as they continue to demand answers.

In the first season, the former cop Miguel Palacios (Juan Minujín) is jailed at San Onofre, under a fake name and a fake judicial case. His mission is to infiltrate a criminal gang of prisoners and prison guards, and gather information about the daughter of a judge kidnapped by said gang.

When Milwaukee police enter the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer, 31, in July 1991, they uncover the grisly personal gallery of a serial killer, which includes a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains.

Ray Donovan is a "fixer" for Hollywood's elite. He is the go-to guy that the city's celebrities, athletes and business moguls call to make their problems disappear. It's a much more lucrative job than his previous work as a ruthless South Boston thug, vaulting him within reach of the truly wealthy and powerful. But no amount of money or the expensive things it can buy can completely mask Ray's past, a past that continues to haunt him with troubled brothers always calling and his father's recent release from 20 years spent in prison. Now a free man, Ray's father, Mickey, arrives in Los Angeles to get what he feels is rightfully his. Mickey's desire to reconnect and settle old scores with his family -- including Ray's wife and kids, who have never met the family's patriarch and are anxious to get to know him -- threatens to destroy everything Ray has built for himself.

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When a grim incident occurs at their prestigious school, justice through law is put to a test by a tough law professor and his ambitious students.