Sins and Secrets
{{Short description|Television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television
| image =
| genre = Documentary
| narrated = Bill Graves
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 45
| executive_producer = Stephen Land
Thomas Cutler
| producer = Greg Francis
| editor = Shane Day
| runtime = 40 to 44 minutes
| company = Jupiter Entertainment
| channel = Investigation Discovery
| first_aired = {{Start date|2011|2|17}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2013|6|17}}
}}
Sins and Secrets (also styled Sins & Secrets) is an American television documentary series on Investigation Discovery that debuted February 17, 2011.{{cite web|last=Gorman|first=Bill|title=Investigation Discovery New Series Slated: 'Sins And Secrets,' 'The Injustice Files,' 'Cuff Me If You Can,' 'Nothing Personal,' 'FBI: Criminal Pursuit'|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/02/01/investigation-discovery-new-series-slated-sins-and-secrets-the-injustice-files-cuff-me-if-you-can-nothing-personal-fbi-criminal-pursuit/80984/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204195329/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/02/01/investigation-discovery-new-series-slated-sins-and-secrets-the-injustice-files-cuff-me-if-you-can-nothing-personal-fbi-criminal-pursuit/80984 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |work=TV by the Numbers |date=February 1, 2011 |access-date=June 15, 2013}} Each program profiles a notorious crime by detailing the city or community where the crime took place, often focusing on details from the personal lives of individual investigators.{{cite web|title='Sins and Secrets': The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show|url=http://www.salon.com/2011/02/17/sins_and_secrets_premiere/|work=Salon |access-date=June 15, 2013|author=Matt Zoller Seitz|date=February 17, 2011}} The series ended in 2013, after its fourth season.{{Cite web |title=Show Watch: SINS & SECRETS (ID) |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/sins-and-secrets/listings/ |publisher=The Futon Critic |access-date=July 23, 2018}}
Sins and Secrets has been compared to the A&E series City Confidential.
Episodes
=Season 1 (2011)=
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Knoxville |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|2|17}} |ShortSummary = The 2007 murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom during a carjacking ignite racial tensions in Knoxville, Tennessee. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = New Orleans |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|2|24}} |ShortSummary = Vince Marinello was a sportscaster in New Orleans, Louisiana who got caught for the 2006 shooting death of his third wife, Mary Elizabeth. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Nantucket |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|3|3}} |ShortSummary = Beth Lochtefeld is found murdered in 2004 in her Nantucket, Massachusetts home, and police tie the crime to her ex-boyfriend, Tom Toolan. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Shreveport |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|3|10}} |ShortSummary = The 2001 disappearance of Vol "Bubba" Dooley, III, of Shreveport, the son of former Bossier Parish Sheriff Vol Dooley, is linked to his estranged wife Jocelyn. Former Sheriff Dooley, District Attorney Schuyler Marvin, and Marvin's cousin, Judge John Cecil Campbell, appear as themselves. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Albuquerque |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|3|17}} |ShortSummary = While investigating the murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft in 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico police make shocking discoveries. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 6 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Aspen |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|3|24}} |ShortSummary = Kathy Denson was a prominent furrier in Aspen, Colorado who was accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend, Cody Boyd, to death in 2002. }} |
=Season 2 (2012)=
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|EpisodeNumber = 7 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Lexington |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|1|12}} |ShortSummary = University of Kentucky football player Trent DiGiuro is gunned down at a party in Lexington, Kentucky in 1994 by his rival, Shane Ragland. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 8 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Anchorage |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|1|19}} |ShortSummary = An unexpected confession nine years after the 1996 murder of Kent Leppink in Anchorage, Alaska points to the dead man's then-fiancee. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 9 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Fayetteville |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|1|26}} |ShortSummary = United States Air Force captain Marty Theer is gunned down by his wife's lover outside of his wife's Fayetteville, North Carolina office in 2000. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 10 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Tampa |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|2|2}} |ShortSummary = When Tampa, Florida bartender Sandra Rozzo is murdered in her garage in 2003, police suspect her ex-boyfriend, but he points to his wife. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 11 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Cleveland |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|2|9}} |ShortSummary = Cleveland, Ohio doctor Yazeed Essa poisons his wife Rose Marie with cyanide in 2005 and then tries to pass her death off as a car crash. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 12 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Key West |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|2|16}} |ShortSummary = A botanist in Key West, Florida is found murdered in his home in 2006, and police uncover evidence of an alternative lifestyle in their investigation. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber= 13 |EpisodeNumber2= 7 |Title= Newry |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|2|23}} |ShortSummary= Julie Bullard's Newry, Maine bed and breakfast becomes the target of Christian Charles Nielsen when the bodies of four people are found behind the inn in 2006. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 14 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8 |Title = Ocean City |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|3|1}} |ShortSummary = A Memorial Day vacation in Ocean City, Maryland turns deadly for Geney Crutchley and Josh Ford when they meet Erika and Benjamin Sifrit in 2002. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 15 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9 |Title = Chicago |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|3|8}} |ShortSummary = Chicago, Illinois resident Becky Klein suddenly disappears in 2007, and police investigate the woman's lesbian lover, Nicole Abusharif. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 16 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10 |Title = Rome |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|3|15}} |ShortSummary = A church deacon in Rome, Georgia is stabbed to death at his workplace in 2004, and the community is shocked to learn the motive behind the murder. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 17 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11 |Title = Missoula |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|3|22}} |ShortSummary = When a Missoula, Montana husband is shot dead in 2007, his wife claims that his mistress had been stalking their family, but police uncover the truth. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 18 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12 |Title = Mio |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|3|29}} |ShortSummary = Two decades after the disappearances of two hunters from Mio, Michigan in 1985, an informant comes forward to police and identifies the killers. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 19 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13 |Title = Charleston |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|4|5}} |ShortSummary = Charleston, South Carolina resident Kate Waring goes missing in 2009, and when her remains are found, the town is stunned by her killers' identities. }} |
=Season 3 (2012)=
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|EpisodeNumber = 20 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Palm Beach |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|4|12}} |ShortSummary = Dalia Dippolito was a Palm Beach, Florida woman who, after failing to get her husband's probation revoked, attempted to hire a hit man in 2009. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 21 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Somerset |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|4|19}} |ShortSummary = Sam Catron was a sheriff from Somerset, Kentucky who was murdered in 2002 as a result of a plot by two drug dealers and a former deputy. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 22 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Farmington Hills |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|4|26}} |ShortSummary = Nancy Seaman was an elementary schoolteacher from Farmington Hills, Michigan who attacked her husband with a hatchet in 2004. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 23 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Auburn |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|8|26}} |ShortSummary = The community and university of Auburn, Alabama is stunned and horrified when Lauren Burk, a college freshman, is found murdered in 2009. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 24 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Kansas City |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|9|2}} |ShortSummary = John Edward Robinson was a serial killer who murdered several women on his property in Kansas City, Missouri until he was apprehended in 2000. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 25 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Charlotte |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|9|9}} |ShortSummary = Rae Carruth was a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers when he was charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1999. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 26 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = Fresno |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|9|16}} |ShortSummary = Larissa Schuster was a Fresno, California biochemist who killed her estranged husband, Tim, in 2003 by dissolving his body in hydrochloric acid. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 27 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8 |Title = Nashville |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|9|23}} |ShortSummary = Jim Cannon was a successful attorney living in Nashville, Tennessee, until he was found strangled to death in 2008 and his estranged wife is suspected. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 28 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9 |Title = Catalina Island |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|9|30}} |ShortSummary = After Stephen Williams' body is discovered off the coast of Catalina Island, California in 2006, police tie his savage murder to a greedy stockbroker. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 29 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10 |Title = Hilo |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|10|14}} |ShortSummary = The peaceful town of Hilo, Hawaii is shocked when 23-year-old Dana Ireland is brutally kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered on Christmas Eve 1991. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 30 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11 |Title = Iaeger |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|10|21}} |ShortSummary = A local physician and politician, Doc Whitley, ends up the victim of a robbery and a deadly arson fire in the small town of Iaeger, West Virginia in 2005. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 31 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12 |Title = Plattsburgh |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|10|28}} |ShortSummary = When furniture store owners are found stabbed to death in Plattsburgh, New York in 2005, police wonder who had a motive to kill the couple. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 32 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13 |Title = Boone |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|11|4}} |ShortSummary = When an Appalachian State University grad student vanishes in 1989, police in Boone, North Carolina have few leads until another co-ed disappears. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 33 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14 |Title = Omaha |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|11|11}} |ShortSummary = A twisted love triangle and murder conspiracy are revealed after an Omaha, Nebraska father is murdered in 2009 after what initially appears to be a burglary. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 34 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15 |Title = Palo Alto |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|11|18}} |ShortSummary = A Palo Alto, California real estate broker's roller-coaster relationship with her boyfriend, a hookah lounge owner, goes up in flames in 2009. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 35 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16 |Title = Carthage |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2012|11|25}} |ShortSummary = A wealthy Carthage, Texas widow goes missing in 1997, and when her body is discovered, police investigate Bernie Tiede, who was stealing from her. }} |
=Season 4 (2013)=
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|EpisodeNumber = 36 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Bloodshed on the Bayou |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|4|15}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 37 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Happy Valentine's Slay |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|4|22}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 38 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Sweet Talker, Midnight Stalker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|4|29}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 39 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Bible Belt Bloodshed |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|5|6}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 40 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Bleed All About It |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|5|13}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 41 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = With this Ring, I Thee Kill |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|5|20}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 42 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = The Murder Inn |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|5|27}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 43 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8 |Title = To Have and to Kill |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|6|3}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 44 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9 |Title = Dressed to Kill |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|6|10}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 45 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10 |Title = Murder, Lies & Bondage Ties |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|6|17}} |ShortSummary = }} |
References
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Category:2010s American documentary television series
Category:2011 American television series debuts
Category:2010s American crime television series
Category:American non-fiction television series
Category:True crime television series