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Vanity Fair Confidential

Writers give exclusive insights into extraordinary mysteries ripped from the pages of Vanity Fair. Interlaced with first-person accounts from those involved in the case and dynamic visual elements, each story plays a role in our cultural landscape.
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  1. S3 E1 - Down By the River
    January 22, 2017
    43min
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    A star athlete from a wealthy family brutally rapes several teenage girls and threatens to kill them if they tell anyone. An international manhunt ensues, and he eludes capture by the FBI and Interpol. Will he honor his death threats?
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  2. S3 E2 - Murder on the Sunset Strip
    January 29, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    In 1980, a brutal serial killer abducts women from downtown Los Angeles and dumps their bodies in bizarre places. When an unidentified caller telephones police, they must decipher fact from fiction as the woman confesses to a bizarre series of events.
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  3. S3 E3 - Murder at the Drama Club
    January 29, 2017
    43min
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    Deep in Louisiana bayou country, a man is found brutally murdered in a nightclub. A handwritten note soaked in the victim's blood reads: "You gave me AIDS." Police have more questions than answers. Was it a hate crime? Will the killer strike again?
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  4. S3 E4 - Seeds of Doubt
    February 12, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    The Stocking Strangler, a serial killer who brutally rapes and murders his victims, is caught and sentenced to death in Georgia. Vanity Fair writer David Rose uncovers shocking facts about the case, and soon he is in a race to stop an execution.
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  5. S3 E5 - Grounds for Murder
    January 29, 2017
    43min
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    Two women disappear from an elite college town. Panic pervades the community when their bodies are found. What sinister secrets will police uncover as two families galvanize the public to help put a killer behind bars?
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  6. S3 E6 - Nightmares on Main Street
    February 26, 2017
    43min
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    Detectives uncover a daycare abuse scandal in Austin, Texas, that horrifies a community, while women across the nation come forward with chilling tales of ritual abuse. Is it possible that there's a network of Satanists behind it all?
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  7. S3 E7 - Henry Lee Lucas: Dead Reckoning
    March 5, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    A Texas drifter claims to have committed hundreds of brutal murders. Case after case is closed. He is sentenced to death. But some investigators wonder if they have the real killer behind bars. Could a vicious murderer still be on the loose?
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  8. S3 E8 - Bikram Feels the Heat
    March 12, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    Bikram Yoga is considered the world's most popular yoga, yet several women claim its founder, Bikram Choudhury, sexually harassed and even assaulted them. How did this man allegedly go from healer to sexual predator?
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  9. S3 E9 - Locked Up Next Door
    March 19, 2017
    44min
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    Behind closed doors, untold numbers of young women across America are being held captive. They are pawns in the sex trafficking industry. Once drafted into this modern day slave trade, are these women lost forever, or can justice set them free?
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  10. S3 E10 - St. George's Hidden Dragons
    March 26, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    An elite New England prep school is under fire for decades-old allegations of sexual abuse of students by staff members. How high will the number of victims -- and perpetrators -- climb? And how deep did the cover-up go?
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  11. S3 E11 - Dylann Roof's Radical White Rage
    April 2, 2017
    43min
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    White rage drives a young man to murder nine black churchgoers in Charleston, SC, in 2015 and fuels a vicious bomb plot to kill Muslim refugees in Kansas. Authorities want to know where it will end.
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  12. S3 E12 - Natalee Holloway: Lost in Paradise
    April 9, 2017
    43min
    TV-14
    The daughter of a Peruvian political candidate disappears after a night out in Lima, Peru. The man she was last seen alive with is linked to the disappearance of young American woman 3,000 miles away. What nefarious scheme is the man a part of?
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Directors
Terrence HayesEddie RosensteinPiers BathRicardo SarmientoAlan SmithJosh Tallo
Producers
Kait GallagherDana BrownEvan Dinger
Cast
Leslie Bennetts
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Investigation Discovery
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