The Prosecutors: In Pursuit Of Justice
The Prosecutors: In Pursuit Of Justice
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The Prosecutors: In Pursuit Of Justice

2000
2 seasons
31 episodes
CrimeDocumentary

THE PROSECUTORS, a serious/in depth series from New Dominion Pictures, explores the complexities of the American judicial system through the eyes of the dedicated men and women who work in it. This series is set amidst the grim reality of backlogged courts, the overworked police stations and on the hardening streets of America. It profiles leading prosecutors, as well as young attorneys just discovering the laws of the legal jungle.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Release Me

    25-09-2000

    Release Me chronicles the story of Texas killer Kenneth Allen McDuff who received the death sentence in 1966 for a murderous rampage that left three teen-agers dead. He was paroled...

  • Ep 2

    2.Pride and Joy

    02-10-2000

    Pride and Joy focuses on Eric Napoletano who brutally murdered his victims, including his wife Myra. Protected by a mother, who worked for the New York City Police Department, Napo...

  • Ep 3

    3.Young Love

    09-10-2000

    Young Love tells the story of a high school student whose overpowering obsession for his girlfriend led him to murder a rival for her affections in the parking lot of their high sc...

  • Ep 4

    4.Like Father, Like Son

    16-10-2000

    This is the story of two young men whose paths tragically crossed on September 29, 1998 in Houston, Texas. One was a sheriff’s deputy while the other, like his father, stayed on th...

  • Ep 5

    5.Every Parent’s Nightmare

    23-10-2000

    This episode recounts a heinous crime that is every parent’s nightmare, the death of a child. On an autumn evening in November 1998, a man randomly killed a 9-year-old boy in a pub...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Green Widow

    30-10-2000

    The Green Widow focuses on Mary Ellen Samuels, a woman whose lust for money and drugs led her to arrange for the 1988 murder of her husband, a successful Hollywood cameraman. Worri...

  • Ep 7

    7.Lone Witness

    09-11-2000

    Lone Witness is the story of Buffalo, New York gang leader Donald “Sly” Green and a lone witness to a gangland slaying which helped bring Green to justice. By the fall of 1988, the...

  • Ep 8

    8.Deadly Revenge

    20-11-2000

    In the early ‘80s in southern Florida, a major war was declared on illegal drugs. One of the champions of that war was Assistant State Attorney Gene Berry, whose tough and unbendin...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Missing Heiress

    27-11-2000

    In February of 1977, Helen Vorhees Brach walked out of the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and into the pages of Chicago folklore. The wealthy widowed heiress of the Brach Candy fo...

  • Ep 10

    10.Fatal Error

    04-12-2000

    When a family outing in the mountains of picturesque Oregon ended with Joyce Boyd’s fatal fall off a 75-foot cliff, authorities called it an accident; that is, until they delved de...

  • Ep 11

    11.Short Fuse

    21-12-2000

    Robert Peernock was an expert in pyrotechnics who knew how to blow things up. But when he tried to kill his wife and daughter by rigging their car to explode, something backfired,...

  • Ep 12

    12.Deadly Commission

    22-12-2000

    Salvatore Thomas Ruscitti, a former policeman, was a well-liked and respected southern California car dealer. When he was shot and killed on his doorstep one September evening in 1...

  • Ep 13

    13.Silent Partner

    07-03-2001

    Roy Radin was a successful New York theatrical producer with a knack for making money and a taste for the high life. His hopes for making it as a Hollywood producer ended abruptly...

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