List of episodes of the series «The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade»

The Yuppie Murder

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  The Stuarts, are robbed and shot in Boston. Carol and her unborn child are killed. Charles survives to describe their black assailant, inflaming racial tensions, until a surprise witness comes forward with a story that blows open the case.

The Preppy Murder

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  Jennifer Levin is found strangled to death in Central Park. A prep school heartthrob, Robert Chambers, is arrested for the crime. The press seizes on his provocative claim that Jennifer’s death happened accidentally during “rough sex."

The Cheerleader Murder

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  In a wealthy California suburb, 15-year-old cheerleader Kirsten Costas is stabbed to death. A teenage girl is seen fleeing the scene. As months pass without an arrest, the police are stumped. But some in the community… think they know the murderer.

The Heartland Massacre

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  In the heart of America’s devastating Farm Crisis, the largest mass murder in recent Missouri history stuns a small town. An entire family is wiped out. The unlikely suspect is a 14-year-old boy… but the real extent of the horror is even more shock

The Black Monday Murder

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  Stockbroker Joe Pikul and his wife Diane are living the New York high life. When she discovers Joe’s been leading a double life, a conflict ensues. And within days of the stock market crash of Black Monday, their marriage comes to a violent end.

The Real Fatal Attraction

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 44 min.
• Episode description:
  Single mother of three Linda Culbertson lands a dream job as a legal secretary in a Kansas City law firm. She falls hard for her married boss, Donald Pierce. Their twisted passions draw bystanders into a shocking and vicious crime?