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  • 2011-09-04T02:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 2h 15m (3 episodes)
  • United States
  • Documentary
Sex, drugs, money: one or more of these motivations are at the heart of the unbelievable first-person testimonies featured in Discovery Channel's newest three-part series. Their elaborate hoaxes garnered news headlines. Executing their evil plans required going to extremes: murdering a hitchhiker, digging up a corpse, parachuting out of a crashing plane. Go inside the minds of six convicts to find out what pushed them to the brink and then finally made them take that fatal, extreme step over the edge. Through first-person, on-camera accounts (some from prison) and cinematic reenactments, discover how the fakers planned and pulled off their elaborate "deaths." Candid interviews with police detectives will also reveal how authorities pieced the convincing evidence to ultimately crack each case and realize some of the biggest lies to ever come through our country's legal system.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-09-04T02:00:00Z

1x01 Framed and Fraud

Series Premiere

1x01 Framed and Fraud

  • 2011-09-04T02:00:00Z45m

A plane crash is staged and an innocent man goes into hiding after refusing to commit a crime in the opener of the series examining cases in which people have faked their deaths.

2011-09-11T02:00:00Z

1x02 For Love and Money

1x02 For Love and Money

  • 2011-09-11T02:00:00Z45m

A husband and wife go to great lengths to hide from drug dealers, the law, and a suspicious mother in law. Meanwhile, a man hatches a cold-blooded plan for his wife to cash in his life insurance policy.

2011-09-18T02:00:00Z

1x03 Alligators and Autopsy

1x03 Alligators and Autopsy

  • 2011-09-18T02:00:00Z45m

A flashy Florida drug dealer stages an alligator attack to begin a new life, but it's a tiny detail that finally causes his lie to unravel. Meanwhile, a Texas man's plan to disappear turns to ghastly desperation when he digs up a body to stand in for him.

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