Real Crime: The REELZ Files

Sheila Bellush is estranged from her millionaire ex-husband,Allen Blackthorne who is the father of her first two daughters. She is lucky enough to find love again, and becomes a local celebrity after the birth of quadruplets. But life quickly takes a turn for the worse when Sheila’s daughter arrives home from school to find her mother brutally murdered.  New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday.  Like what you hear and want more real crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Martin Scorsese’s film, Casino, takes us back to a time when Las Vegas was still the “wild west” and the mob ran gambling and damn near everything else in sin city. Vegas-teen Matt Baker watched Casino over and over again, trying to mimic the dapper gangsters portrayed by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Inspired by what he saw, Matt forms a clique of other high school students who start their own drug enterprise and call themselves “The Crew.” But when one member, Jared Whaley, decides wants out, Matt feels betrayed. That’s when this copycat is inspired by Pesci’s line as gangster “Nicky Santoro.” “Got a lot of holes in the desert and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. Except you gotta do it right.” Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On May 17th 2012, the Queen of Disco and First Lady of Love, Donna Summer died at her home in Naples, Florida. While Donna grew up in a strict religious home she would go on to be defined by the raunchy Disco music she made with hit music producer Giorgio Moroder. Donna shrouded her final months in secrecy, with her death coming as a shock to extended family members. What really happened to Donna Summer? Dr Michael Hunter pieces together what was really going on in the Disco Diva’s body to find the answers. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The horrific murder of 24 year-old Gregg Smart becomes a national media event when his attractive young wife is found to be having an affair with the 15 year-old killer, a case that inspired the Nicole Kidman movie "To Die For." Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Erika Friman and Pedro Bravo were high school sweethearts until their senior year when she called things off. After beginning college, Erika begins a new relationship with Christian Aguilar who ends up missing. The case comes down to an iPhone - sometimes technology can work in your favor and sometimes it doesn’t.  New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday.  Like what you hear and want more real crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Quentin Tarantino is affectionately known as “The Master of Suspense” for his movie scenes that depict excessive violence and cutthroat retaliations. One English fan, 16-year-old Allan Bentley from the Liverpool, drew inspiration from Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and, along with two friends, reenacted a brutal murder scene from the film. The boys got it right --including mutilation and an attempt to cut off their victim’s ear. The copycats even hummed a familiar tune that played under the grisly scene in the movie.  Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Provocative and iconic rock star Lou Reed star transformed the face of modern music. From his teens, the founder of the seminal Velvet Underground lived a life of outrageous excess, pushing everything beyond the limit. His fascination with subculture and the underdogs of society inspired his work, most famously with songs such as Heroin and Walk on The Wild Side. Though he practiced what he preached, Lou lived to the age of 71. Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Hunter has found evidence of events in Lou’s early life that ultimately caused his death. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sex, jealously and obsession fuel a national media fixation on Jodi Arias, who in 2008 savagely murders her ex-boyfriend, 30 year-old motivational speaker Travis Alexander. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Heather Strong and Joshua Fulgham’s relationship was rocky to say the least, and they ultimately end up separating. They hire a babysitter to help with their children as they begin adjusting to life apart. But babysitter Emilia Carr does more than just earn Heather and Josh’s trust. New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday.  Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tony Soprano, the fictional New Jersey mob boss in HBO’s The Sopranos, could seemingly get away with anything, even the eight murders his character committed in the series. But for Riverside, CA residents, Jason Bautista and his half-brother Michael Montejo, one particular Sopranos episode inspired them to murder their mentally ill mother and dismember her in an attempt to conceal the identity of her body. It was a familiar mob tactic that the boys learned from watching an episode of The Sopranos.But unlike the fiction, these copycat killers turned what they saw on TV into tragedy.  New Copycat Killerspodcasts drop each Thursday. Next week, Forensic Psychologist Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner and the experts dive into the murder inspired by Reservoir Dogs. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.