The Annihilator: The Reckoning — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
The Annihilator: The Reckoning — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
MK Confidential finds a fugitive at work, balancing books at an accounting firm in Richmond, Virginia. It’s Thursday, June 9, 1989, around midday. Three federal men in suits approach the receptionist’s desk and ask to speak with Bob Clark. They search the compliant accountant and ask plainly, “Are you John List?” The man denies it, …
The Annihilator: Bob Clark Is John List — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
The Annihilator: Bob Clark Is John List — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
MK Confidential begins with a man who is actively getting away with murder. John List arrives in Denver and politely applies for a new Social Security card, under a new name. Robert P. Clark. The people of Denver will never suspect that the quiet, fastidious man who drifted into town aboard a train is a …
The Annihilator: One At A Time — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
The Annihilator: One At A Time — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
MK Confidential opens with the words of a killer. John List narrates the morning of Tuesday, November 9, 1971, the day his carefully laid plans to kill each member of his family will become reality. By the end of it, his mother, wife, and three children will all lie dead on the floor of Breeze …
The Annihilator: The Man At The Train Station — Ep. 2 | MK Confidential on The List Family Murders
The Annihilator: The Man At The Train Station — Ep. 2 | MK Confidential on The List Family Murders
MK Confidential begins at the police station in Westfield, New Jersey, in the wee hours of the morning. It is the summer of 1971, and officers have brought in two teenage girls for smoking cigarettes. Both girls’ fathers arrive to claim them; one looks like he came straight from bed, and the other sports a …
The Annihilator: A Most Forgettable Man — Ep. 1 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
The Annihilator: A Most Forgettable Man — Ep. 1 | MK Confidential on the John List Family Murders
MK Confidential opens on December 7, 1971, as a car turns up a dark driveway in Westfield, New Jersey. A drama teacher named Ed Illiano leaves his headlights pointed at a nineteen-room Victorian mansion called Breeze Knoll. One of his students has shared a secret he cannot shake. Days before she vanished, 16-year-old Patricia List …
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Life Sentence — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Life Sentence — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential opens in a hotel lobby in Annapolis, Maryland, in July of 2016. A sliding glass door closes on a golden retriever named Buddy, and a stranger gathers the animal up and carries him inside. He tells the dog’s owner his name is Phoenix. Over the next few days he tells her the rest …
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Man in the Park — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Man in the Park — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential opens on the evening of May 14, 2001. Thirty-year-old lawyer Halle Shilling ties back her hair, grabs her yellow Walkman, and drives down to Rock Creek Park for a run. In the parking lot near the old Peirce Mill, a young man sits on a curb, watching her start her jog. Minutes later …
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Buried in the Park — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Buried in the Park — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential opens on the morning of July 25th, 2001. Twenty-eight police recruits stand shoulder to shoulder along Glover Road in Rock Creek Park, beating the brush, calling Chandra Levy’s name. The order from headquarters was to search a hundred yards from the roads and the trails…but most of the team hears roads. By one …
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: ‘Did You Kill Chandra Levy?’ — Ep. 2 | MK Confidential
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: ‘Did You Kill Chandra Levy?’ — Ep. 2 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential opens on a phone call. In the early summer of 2001, a reporter at NBC’s Washington station picks up, and a police source gives her one sentence: a missing intern, a congressman, and an affair. Within days, nearly every camera in America has swung off the search for Chandra Levy and onto Gary …
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Vanishing — Ep. 1 | MK Confidential
The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Vanishing — Ep. 1 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential opens on the morning the biggest missing-persons story in America is set to have its biggest day. It is September 11, 2001. Bob and Susan Levy are flying to Chicago to tell their daughter’s story on Oprah; the congressman’s son is booked on The View. For four months the country has asked two …
The Trials of Claus von Bülow: Was There Ever a Crime? — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential
The Trials of Claus von Bülow: Was There Ever a Crime? — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential follows the aftermath of Claus von Bülow’s stunning acquittal. The criminal case is over, but Sunny’s children are not finished. Unable to put their stepfather on trial again, they sue him for fifty-six million dollars, forcing Claus into one final legal reckoning over Sunny’s fortune. Megyn examines the settlement that reshapes the family’s …
The Trials of Claus von Bülow: Science on Trial — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential
The Trials of Claus von Bülow: Science on Trial — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential
MK Confidential returns to the courtroom as Claus von Bülow stands trial for a second time. Three years after a jury convicted him of trying to murder his wife, and one year after Alan Dershowitz helped overturn that verdict, Claus wants to be publicly exonerated. It is the spring of 1985. Sunny von Bülow has …