FBI Files

50:03

The Baker Everyone Trusted Was Hunting Women With an...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/08

Cindy Paulson’s Escape Exposes Robert Hansen in Anchorage She was seventeen years old, handcuffed, barefoot, and running for her life. She had been kidnapped, tortured, and raped inside a quiet Anchorage home by a man she believed was just another client. Now, he was trying to load her onto a small bush plane, and she knew exactly what that meant: she would never be seen again. But Cindy Paulson had no intention of becoming another name on a list of missing women that no one was even investigating

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50:04

He Was One of Delaware's Most Powerful Lawyers. A...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/07

He was one of Delaware's most powerful lawyers, with ties to the governor's own office. When his secret relationship with the governor's young secretary turned deadly, he was confident he could make the evidence disappear — permanently, sixty miles out in the Atlantic Ocean.The cooler had other plans.This episode traces the disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey, the year-long investigation that stalled without a body or a weapon, and the single piece of physical evidence — an ordinary plastic cooler

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50:04

Liberty Park Sniper The Hunt for Joseph Paul Franklin

FBI Files ·

2026/10/06

Liberty Park Sniper: The Hunt for Joseph Paul Franklin | The FBI FilesIt was a warm summer evening in Salt Lake City. Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18, were jogging through Liberty Park with two white girlfriends. They were young. They were happy. They had no idea that a man with a high-powered rifle was watching them from a vacant lot across the street, hidden behind a hill, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.The shots rang out at 10:30 PM on August 20, 1980. Seven rounds from a .30-06

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50:04

Jack Unterweger Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/06

Jack Unterweger: Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI | The FBI FilesHe was celebrated as a literary genius, a reformed man who had turned his life around behind bars. He walked red carpets, gave interviews, and rubbed shoulders with Vienna's elite. But while the world applauded his redemption story, Jack Unterweger was doing what he had always done: hunting women. And this time, he was reporting on his own crimes.In this episode of The FBI Files, we reopen one of the most twisted cases in

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51:04

CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/05

It was a crisp winter morning in Langley, Virginia. Cars were lined up at a stoplight, waiting to turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters. Inside those vehicles were ordinary people—analysts, engineers, covert operatives—going about their daily commute. None of them knew that a man with an AK-47 was watching them from a brown Datsun station wagon, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.At approximately 8:00 AM on January 25, 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi stepped out of his vehicle and walked

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50:04

Glenn Rogers From Van Nuys Truck Fire to Room 119

FBI Files ·

2026/10/04

A burned pickup truck in a Van Nuys hospital parking lot. A woman’s body inside, strangled before the flames ever touched her. A single earring. A lottery win. And a name that kept surfacing: Glenn Rogers.It began on the night of September 29, 1995, when Sandra Gallagher—a 33-year-old mother of three—won $1,200 on a scratch-off at McRed’s Cocktail Lounge in Van Nuys. She was celebrating. She was happy. And when a charming stranger with long blond hair needed a ride home, she volunteered. Hours

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50:04

Joseph Paul Franklin Liberty Park Sniper Manhunt

FBI Files ·

2026/10/03

He was a ghost. A drifter. A man with no fixed address and no fingerprints on file. He moved across the country like a shadow, robbing banks to fund his travels and using a high-powered rifle to kill from a distance. He was not motivated by money. He was not motivated by passion. He was motivated by hate—a consuming, irrational, all-encompassing hatred that he believed was a divine mission. His name was Joseph Paul Franklin. And on August 20, 1980, his cross-country killing spree brought him to Salt

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52:27

John Gotti’s Biggest Mistake Gave the FBI Exactly...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/03

He was the most powerful mob boss in America. The head of the Gambino crime family. A man who walked the streets of New York like a king, wearing $2,000 suits and flashing a smile that dared the government to take him down. The press called him "The Dapper Don." The FBI called him something else: "The Teflon Don." Because no matter how many times they arrested him, no matter how many charges they brought, nothing ever stuck. Three trials. Three acquittals. Witnesses disappeared. Jurors were bribed

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50:08

The Cowboy Fantasy That Turned Into a Killing Spree

FBI Files ·

2026/10/02

He wore cowboy boots and carried a hunting knife on his belt, calling himself by names lifted straight from western paperback novels. Behind the costume, FBI profilers concluded, was a man acting out a violent outlaw fantasy — one that cost 22-year-old Robin Smith her life.After Smith's remains were discovered weeks later in a rural stretch of Washington state, the case grew into a multi-state manhunt spanning the Pacific Northwest, landing Darren Dee O'Neall on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for

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49:54

Five Minutes That Became the Bloodiest Day in FBI...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/02

Eight FBI agents went out that morning expecting a routine arrest. Five minutes later, two were dead, five more were wounded, and one agent — already shot himself — fired the final rounds that ended it.After an eight-month investigation into a wave of brutal bank robberies in south Miami, agents finally located their suspects on April 11th, 1986. What followed became known simply as the Firefight — one of the bloodiest and most studied shootouts in FBI history, a five-minute battle that permanently

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198:54

The Shootout That Changed How Every FBI Agent Carries...

FBI Files ·

2026/10/01

Eight FBI agents. Two armed men. Less than five minutes. On a quiet residential street in Miami in April 1986, a routine vehicle stop turned into one of the deadliest days in FBI history.Michael Platt and William Matix, two former US Army servicemen suspected of a violent robbery spree across South Florida, were carrying firepower the Bureau never anticipated. By the time the gunfire ended, two agents were dead and five more were wounded — a tragedy that would permanently change how every FBI agent

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50:04

Hunting Darren D. ONeill_ Robin Smith Mount Rainier...

FBI Files ·

2026/09/30

A vanished bride-to-be. A red Torino. A drifter with a teardrop tattoo. This is the manhunt that gripped the Pacific Northwest—and the FBI agent who refused to let it go cold.On the night of March 28, 1987, 22-year-old Robin Smith left a bar in Puyallup, Washington, with a man she had just met. Her fiancé had left the party early. Robin stayed behind. She was supposed to be home hours ago. She never came back.The man she left with called himself Herb Johnson. His real name was Darren Dee O'Neall—a

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147:34

He Thought They Were Coming for Him — They Weren't

FBI Files ·

2026/09/30

Two Boston police officers walked into an alley to check on a domestic dispute that had nothing to do with the man they encountered there. Ted Otsuki, a parolee with a violent past, assumed they were coming for him — and in a single, catastrophic misjudgment, opened fire.What followed was an eleven-month international manhunt that placed Otsuki on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and eventually led investigators from Boston to San Francisco, through Texas, and into a high-rise apartment in

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49:24

The Bookstore Owner Who Robbed Banks in a Fake Beard

FBI Files ·

2026/09/29

By day, he ran a used bookstore and impressed customers with his knowledge of the classics. By night, he put on a fake beard, picked up an assault rifle, and robbed banks across suburban Chicago while his wife waited in the getaway car.Between 1990 and 1991, Jeffrey and Jill Erickson, the "Bearded Bandit" and his partner, pulled off eight violent bank robberies, shot at a police officer, and stockpiled 38 guns in their suburban townhouse. When the FBI and Chicago police finally closed in, they

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49:38

The Bearded Bandit and His Bank Heists

FBI Files ·

2026/09/28

A fake beard. A baseball cap. A police scanner in his hand. Between 1990 and 1991, one man walked into bank after bank across suburban Chicago, announced a hold-up with military precision, and vanished before anyone could stop him. Outside, his wife waited with a stolen getaway car.The FBI and Chicago police knew only his disguise, and bank employees gave him a name: the Bearded Bandit. But as the heists grew more violent, and a routine traffic stop ended in gunfire against a police officer, the

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150:27

Crimes That Pushed The FBI To Their Limit

FBI Files ·

2026/09/27

An elderly woman battling cancer, vanished without a trace. An 86-year-old man and his wife, killed in their own home. A security guard, shot without warning while simply doing her job. In just one week, two killers — a 23-year-old ex-convict and his 16-year-old accomplice — crossed seven states, stealing a new car with every victim they left behind.This episode traces the 1994 killing spree of Lewis Eugene Gilbert II and Eric Elliott, the nationwide manhunt it triggered, and the single overlooked

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50:04

Miami River Cops: Inside the Largest Police...

FBI Files ·

2026/09/26

July 28, 1985. The Miami River. A marine salvager pulls three bodies from the murky water—men dressed in designer clothes, guns still tucked into their waistbands, large bills stuffed in their pockets. They were Colombian drug smugglers. And they hadn't drowned by accident.Witnesses said men in police uniforms had rushed them at the Jones Boat Yard. The smugglers panicked, jumped into the river, and disappeared beneath the surface. But these weren't real cops making a bust. They were cops making a

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50:04

Brother Against Brother in the Thomas Capano Case

FBI Files ·

2026/09/25

Thomas Capano had everything. Wealth. Power. A prestigious law career. A beautiful family. He was a former prosecutor, a political insider, a man who moved through Delaware's elite circles with effortless charm. But behind the polished facade lurked a controlling, obsessive man who could not accept rejection. And when Anne Marie Fahey—the governor's scheduling secretary, his secret lover—tried to end their affair, he made sure she would never leave him again.On the night of June 27, 1996, Thomas

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50:04

The Most Violent Bank Robbery Of The Century The FBI...

FBI Files ·

2026/09/24

It was 3:40 p.m. on May 9, 1980, when five heavily armed men stormed into a Security Pacific Bank branch in Norco, California. But this was not a typical bank robbery. The men were not drug addicts desperate for a fix, nor professional thieves looking for a quick score. They were survivalists, led by a born-again Christian who believed the apocalypse was coming—and that they needed money to prepare for it.Within minutes, the robbery spiraled into something the Riverside County Sheriff's Department

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49:24

Dangerous Takedown FULL EPISODE The FBI Files

FBI Files ·

2026/09/23

A sledgehammer smashing through a front door in the dead of night. A Camden, New Jersey home invaded by two violent men. A shootout in a park that left a police officer nearly dead. And two suspects who vanished without a trace.For one year, they were ghosts. Witnesses refused to talk—they knew the consequences of cooperation could be deadly. The community lived in fear. And the men who had shot at a cop were still out there, somewhere, planning their next move. But criminals make mistakes. And when

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