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The Sean Ellis Case — Wrongful Conviction and Full Exoneration
The Sean Ellis case is a landmark wrongful-conviction case in which a 19-year-old Black man spent over 20 years in prison for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan before being fully exonerated.
The Whitey Bulger Case — Boston Mob Boss and FBI Informant
James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston mob boss and FBI informant convicted of racketeering and 19 murders in 2013, later killed in prison in 2018.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist — Unsolved Art Theft
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is an unsolved 1990 art robbery in Boston, where two men posing as police officers stole 13 artworks worth an estimated $500 million.
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The episode covers Rick Singer's expanding college admissions scheme, using corrupt insiders to manipulate standardized test scores in the Operation Varsity Blues case.
The Sean Ellis Case — Wrongful Conviction and Full Exoneration
The Sean Ellis case is a landmark wrongful-conviction case in which a 19-year-old Black man spent over 20 years in prison for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan before being fully exonerated.
Trial 4
Trial 4 is a Netflix documentary series about Sean K. Ellis, a Boston teenager convicted of murdering Det. John Mulligan in 1993 and jailed for 22 years before exoneration.
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
Netflix documentary series about the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in Boston — 13 masterworks stolen, none recovered, no convictions to date.
The Whitey Bulger Case — Boston Mob Boss and FBI Informant
James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston mob boss and FBI informant convicted of racketeering and 19 murders in 2013, later killed in prison in 2018.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist — Unsolved Art Theft
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is an unsolved 1990 art robbery in Boston, where two men posing as police officers stole 13 artworks worth an estimated $500 million.
The Charles Stuart Case — Boston's Racist Murder Hoax
The Charles Stuart case is a 1989 Boston murder in which Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife Carol and falsely blamed a Black gunman, triggering a citywide racial panic.
The Boston Marathon Bombing — 2013 Terror Attack
The Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack on April 15, 2013, when brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line, killing three and injuring hundreds.
Boston Strangler Tours — Walking the Sites of America's Most Chilling Case
Boston's true crime walking tours bring the city's darkest chapter to life — tracing the 1960s killing spree attributed to Albert DeSalvo through the streets of one of America's oldest cities.