The Perfect Heist: A California bank manager panics and calls in the FBI after the door to his vault refuses to open. Upon inspection, the vault has been blasted into from the ceiling, and over $2 million in valuables is gone. When agents find no clues as to the robbers or their whereabouts in California, they send details of the crime to other FBI field offices. It is not long before agents in Ohio are investigating a bank vault robbery that is strikingly similar to the California heist. Agents determine that several men are responsible for the vault break-ins, and are able to locate one of the men’s friends, and attempt to use him as bait to reel in the crooks. The man leads investigators to the criminal’s vehicle, where they find equipment and weapons used in the vault break-ins. The man also leads them to the former home of one of the criminals, where agents uncover fingerprints, and can link the man to the bank robberies. Agents would eventually track down and arrest all four of the elusive bank robbers, and even uncover large sums of money hidden by the crooks.
Brotherhood of Hate: An Arkansas State Trooper is shot and killed after pulling over a van for a traffic violation. Officers apprehend the shooter, after a car chase and shootout. ATF is alerted when officers find weapons and explosives in the man’s vehicle. Further testing of the weapons reveals one was used in a murder several months earlier. ATF traces some of the firearms to purchases made by another man from and arms dealer. They also match silencer marks from the weapons to a third man previously arrested for stealing a flatbed truck. Agents learn that all the men are members of The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), a 100-plus member racist, anti-Semitic paramilitary group residing in a fortified compound with stockpiles of weapons. Agents uncover a series of robberies and killings that can be linked to the dangerous organization. The FBI and ATF surround the compound, but the members resist them for several days. Finally, the standoff is ended and agents get their men.
Killer Instinct: A Washington DC professor is shot and killed as she tries to get into her car. The killer leaves the body in the parking lot and drives away in her vehicle. A week later, a man robs a bank, and security cameras capture the same vehicle as the getaway car. The FBI believes they are dealing with the same man. Days later, the same vehicle is involved in a shootout with police, but eventually would elude them. Eventually, the vehicle is found, the interior covered with red dye from the stolen bank packs. A year later, a man is shot and his car is stolen. The next day, the car is used in another bank robbery. Investigators would conclude that the man follows the same pattern; he steals a vehicle and uses it for his crimes. Eventually, authorities would catch up the murderous thief and chase him into a dead-end, where the man would be apprehended. The crook is now serving five life terms, plus an additional 100 years for weapons violations.
The FBI Files is an American docudrama that takes a look behind the scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime laboratory.
Real FBI cases are recounted through reenactments and interviews, due to the sensitive nature of the show, viewer discretion is advised.
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