The Curious Life and Death of...

The legend of Lizzie Borden has gripped the nation for nearly 130 years, prompting books, films, and one of history’s most grisly skipping-rope rhymes. Her arrest for the murders of her father and stepmother led to the trial of the century, but, curiously, after all this time, the Borden murders remain unsolved. Join medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and her team as they recreate the crime and examine old evidence using modern-day forensics, in order to deliver, once and for all, a final verdict.

In 1969, at the height of the Rolling Stones’ fame, guitarist and band founder Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool. From that night on, rumors circulated that his death was wildly curious. Now, medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and her team of forensic and crime-solving experts are re-opening the case, cutting through the conspiracies and poring over video footage never before seen on television. What they discover is a mystery so dark, it paints everything black, from the police to the British government... and the band itself.

In a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over a hundred victims of the RMS Titanic disaster are buried, including a simple grave dedicated to an “Unknown Child.” Who was this unfortunate youth who perished in the freezing North Atlantic on April 15, 1912? Where was he on the ship when tragedy struck? Who was his family? And does he have any living descendants? Follow this twisting and turning scientific search as medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and her team of experts bring this Titanic victim back to life after over a century.

The death of actress Brittany Murphy in 2009 was immediately considered suspicious. People said it was unnatural, no accident, even murder. Stories in the press became increasingly sensational, and only heightened when her husband died in the same Hollywood mansion just five months later. So what really happened? Were drugs involved? Toxic mold? Could her mother have poisoned them both? Medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris separates the truth from the tabloid news, delivering her own verdict on this tragic death.

For three decades, Harry Houdini enjoyed international fame as the world’s greatest escape artist. But in October 1926, a bizarre succession of broken bones, physical attacks, and appendicitis brought his astounding career and life to a sudden end. Nearly 100 years later, the fate of the master illusionist is still shrouded in mystery. So, what is the truth behind Harry Houdini’s death? To answer that question, Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and her team of medical and investigative specialists will need to work up a little forensic magic of their own.

In the 1980s and ‘90s there was no drug lord more famous than the “King of Cocaine,” Pablo Escobar. In his heyday he was believed to be the seventh richest man in the world. When he died in a hail of bullets on a rooftop in 1993, many claimed to have fired the fatal shot, but who was truly responsible? The Colombian police? A vigilante mob? America’s Delta Force? Or was it Escobar himself? Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and her team run ballistic tests, study new evidence, and interview family and government officials to finally identify the killer.