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After a “family friend” murders a California mother and her 8-year-old son, the woman’s 16-year-old daughter is nowhere to be found. Authorities learn the killer has kidnapped Hannah Anderson and taken her to the remote wilderness of Idaho. The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team receives a tip and tries to track down the pair before it’s too late.

Masked shooters attack an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, killing and wounding dozens of people. FBI investigators descend on the scene, looking for clues about the identity of the killers. But as they try to find out who the active shooters are, they’re faced with a more urgent question…where are they and do they plan to strike again?

In 1999, three women went missing in Yosemite National Park, launching the largest search and rescue operation in US history. The bodies of two of the women are found in a burned car, and the third is only found when the killer sends a taunting note to the FBI. Five months later, when a fourth woman is found beheaded near the park, the Bureau believes a serial killer may be on the loose.

In one of the most infamous serial killer cases in American history, the FBI works with local law enforcement in California to try and apprehend the so-called “Golden State Killer.” It’s a case that spans four decades, as the killer and rapist continually manages to elude law enforcement. Authorities resort to an unprecedented use of DNA data in an attempt to finally track down the man responsible for 13 murders and 51 sexual assaults.

On Sept 17th, 2016 a bomb detonates on 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring over 30 people and causing mayhem. In the following hours and days, multiple bombs are discovered across Manhattan and New Jersey, all homemade devices designed to kill or maim as many people as possible. The FBI works with local law enforcement to track down a suspect who comes to be known as “The Chelsea Bomber,” culminating in a nail-biting standoff.

Eric O'Neill, an FBI investigative specialist with no undercover training, manages to win the trust of suspected spy, Robert Hanssen — or so he thinks.

In 2013, Jimmy Lee Dykes shoots and kills a rural Alabama school bus driver and takes a five-year-old boy hostage in a carefully constructed bunker. The FBI discovers that the bunker is lined with explosives and Dykes is heavily armed. After a six day standoff, Dykes sets a deadline for the following day to broadcast his grievances on TV news, or he will kill the boy and himself.

FBI agents uncover new evidence from the Birmingham Church Bombing that could finally bring justice to the young girls killed in this act of racial hatred.

In 2014, a suburban police detective learns of a Seattle filmmaker who convinces teenage girls to engage in prostitution with fraudulent promises that they'll cash in when he makes a movie on the subject.

After a family doctor well-known for performing abortions is gunned down in his suburban Buffalo home in 1998, all clues point to an anti-abortion extremist as the sniper.

A pipe bomb at a concert is the first of a string of explosions during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; the FBI have a serial bomber on their hands.

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, armed men storm the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. The attack kills US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The FBI launches an international investigation to track down the perpetrators, but in the chaos of post-Gaddafi Libya, arresting a suspect is no easy feat.

The FBI Hostage Rescue Team works with brilliant FBI profiler Molly Amman to extract a five-year-old boy from a bunker built by a heavily armed captor named Jimmy Lee Dykes. The profiler must convince FBI director Robert Muller that negotiations with the erratic Dykes are doomed to fail.

Rumors swirled for years that two former NYPD detectives, Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito were working for the Mafia, committing crimes that included murder, kidnapping and money laundering for their mob bosses. Both men retire from the police department and move to Las Vegas, but when a former Mafia underboss admits that Caracappa and Eppolitto carried out a number of murders on his orders, the FBI formulates a plan to bring the “Mob Cops” to justice.

The FBI doggedly wade through their prime suspect's emotional outbursts, half-truths and outright lies to find out what happened to Chyenne Kircher.

After one lethal pipe bomb is found inside a Long Island Home Depot, the FBI mobilizes to prevent a potential second bomb from being detonated on Black Friday.

An unknown sniper terrorizes the citizens of Washington, D.C. over three weeks in October, 2002. FBI investigators hunt for the murderer as the killings continue. With limited evidence and a series of false leads, the investigation stalls. Will a series of cryptic clues left by the shooter help the authorities end the killing spree?

The FBI uncovers a state-sanctioned plot to steal technology that makes U.S. submarines nearly undetectable to enemy sonar - and deploy it in Chinese subs.

A small-time crook hoping for a break alerts the FBI to a cadre of corrupt cops within the Boston Police. But taking down three SWAT-trained members of a police force comes with unavoidable risks.

The FBI has one shot to catch the McDonald's Monopoly scammers in the act. Agents deploy some very creative undercover techniques to gather evidence. Days away from the takedown, a fax sent to the wrong organization could derail the entire case.

After Bernie Madoff confesses to the FBI that he's responsible for a $64 billion Ponzi scheme he is quickly arrested, but the FBI's job is just beginning. They have the long task of recovering stolen assets to help those whose lives he had shattered.

Agents uncover the largest oxycodone trafficking operation in American history. But building a case is easier said than done, when the drugs are legal. The FBI zeroes in on twin brother pain clinic owners, suspecting they're running a pill mill.

The FBI gets a tip that the McDonald's Monopoly promo games are rigged, and a mysterious figure dubbed "Uncle Jerry" is behind this scam. There's a race against the clock, as McDonald's agrees to run one more game, hoping to catch him in the act.

Days before Christmas, a Pan Am plane crashes in the remote Scottish village of Lockerbie. 290 people are killed, including 190 Americans. The investigation leads the FBI across the world in a quest to find out what caused the unspeakable tragedy.

When federal authorities seize a renegade rancher's family cattle in 2014, heavily armed anti-government militias come to his aid and a dangerous showdown ensues.

The FBI faces down a group of anti-government ranchers and heavily-armed militias who've taken over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. A car chase through the mountains ensues, and when one rancher refuses to surrender, the showdown turns deadly.

Senator Dianne Wilkerson is beloved by her constituents in Massachusetts, but when the FBI receives a tip that she is accepting bribes, agents from the Public Corruption squad open an investigation.

In the aftermath of the bombings of two US embassies in Africa, three FBI agents suspect an injured bystander may well be one of the lead terrorists.

Once the FBI discovers a bomb factory connected to the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, it exposes the vast reach of a little-known terrorist group called Al Qaeda.

Twelve minutes after its departure from JFK airport, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes. FBI investigators must determine if it's a tragic accident or the result of sabotage.

Pirates murder four Americans off the coast of Somalia and the FBI chases the criminal mastermind across Africa.

The stabbing death of a wealthy young husband of a beauty queen in Old San Juan leads to a full blown murder-for-fire conspiracy investigation and an international manhunt by the FBI.

The FBI investigates the discovery of a dismembered body in Albania and learns a nearly identical crime in Brooklyn 16 years earlier could point them to the killer.

In 2011, 14-year old Chyenne Kircher disappears from her dysfunctional small-town Illinois home, leaving a convincing runaway note.