Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice | |
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Genre | True crime |
Directed by | Patrick Taulère David Cargill |
Presented by | Dominick Dunne |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 62 |
Production | |
Producers | David Cargill David Connelly Joseph Peicott Patrick Shea Patrick Taulère |
Running time | 48 mins. |
Original release | |
Network | truTV |
Release | June 19, 2002 September 25, 2009 | –
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice is an American
Justice Network
currently shows reruns of the program.
List of episodes
Season 1
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Death Do Us Part" | June 19, 2002 | |
2 | 2 | "Billionaire Boys Club" | June 26, 2002 | |
The Billionaire Boys Club, a social club and Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Joe Hunt, is profiled. | ||||
3 | 3 | "A Scandal in Hunt County" | June 26, 2002 | |
Heiress Susan Cummings is charged in the shooting death of her polo player boyfriend, Roberto Villegas. | ||||
4 | 4 | "Miami Vices" | July 3, 2002 | |
Young Miami socialite Joyce Cohen plots to have her husband, Stanley Cohen, murdered. | ||||
5 | 5 | "Unbridled Greed" | July 17, 2002 | |
The suspicious death of racehorse Alydar reveals the financial troubles at Calumet Farm. | ||||
6 | 6 | "Mystery in the Hamptons" | July 24, 2002 | |
The secrets of Wall Street securities analyst are exposed when he is charged with killing his wife. |
Season 2
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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7 | 1 | "Brothers in Arms" | December 30, 2002 | |
Brothers Lyle and Erik Menéndez are accused of shotgun murders of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills. | ||||
8 | 2 | "Maternal Instincts" | January 15, 2003 | |
The drug-addicted girlfriend of a DuPont heiress's son is found murdered in a seedy Las Vegas motel room. | ||||
9 | 3 | "Gentleman's Agreement" | January 22, 2003 | |
The owner of Sotheby's auction house, A. Alfred Taubman, is implicated in a price fixing scheme. | ||||
10 | 4 | "What the Butler Saw" | March 12, 2003 | |
Paul Burrell, the former butler for Princess Diana is accused of stealing from the royal family. | ||||
11 | 5 | "Run from Justice" | March 19, 2003 | |
Alex Kelly of Darien, Connecticut flees to Europe for seven years to avoid prosecution for two rapes. | ||||
12 | 6 | "Sweet Seduction" | March 26, 2003 | |
Helen Brach, an heiress of Brach's Candy Company, disappears and the investigation reveals more horrible crimes. |
Season 3
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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13 | 1 | "The Waitress and the Millionaire" | July 30, 2003 | |
Country club waitress Celeste Beard marries a rich, older man who is shot dead by her lesbian lover. | ||||
14 | 2 | "Mystery in the Caribbean" | August 6, 2003 | |
The body of former model and aspiring artist Lois McMillen washes up on the shores on Tortola . | ||||
15 | 3 | "Oil, Money and Mystery" | August 13, 2003 | |
Oil heir T. Cullen Davis fatally shoots his estranged wife's twelve year-old daughter and her boyfriend. | ||||
16 | 4 | "Evil Deeds" | August 27, 2003 | |
Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, is on the run and captured by Duane Chapman. | ||||
17 | 5 | "Tailspin" | September 3, 2003 | |
College student Dana Ewell orchestrates the triple murder of his parents and sister so he can inherit the family fortune. | ||||
18 | 6 | "Blood Money" | September 10, 2003 | |
Steven Benson uses a car bomb to kill his mother, a tobacco heiress, and his brother, a tennis player. |
Season 4
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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19 | 1 | "Island Obsession" | January 7, 2004 | |
Ex-windsurfing champion Enrico "Chico" Forti is accused of fraud at the Pikes Hotel and the murder of Dale Pike. | ||||
20 | 2 | "Martha Stewart on Trial" | January 14, 2004 | |
Martha Stewart's highly-publicized trial for her involvement in the ImClone stock trading case is profiled. | ||||
21 | 3 | "A Deadly Campaign" | January 21, 2004 | |
Up-and-coming politician murder-for-hire plot involving her husband and an attorney. | ||||
22 | 4 | "Freefall" | February 18, 2004 | |
drug smuggling ring. | ||||
23 | 5 | "Family Secrets" | February 25, 2004 | |
The Franklin Bradshaw murder case reveals a mother's deadly manipulation of her teenage son. | ||||
24 | 6 | "Murder, He Wrote" | March 3, 2004 | |
Author Michael Peterson claims his wife Kathleen's suspicious death was the result of falling down the stairs. |
Season 5
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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25 | 1 | "A Marriage of Inconvenience" | January 1, 2005 | |
Socialite Lita McClinton is gunned down the day before her divorce, and the case takes nearly twenty years to solve. | ||||
26 | 2 | "The Two Mrs. Woodwards" | January 12, 2005 | |
Ann Woodward shoots her husband, William Woodward, Jr. , to death, claiming that she thought he was a prowler. | ||||
27 | 3 | "Death of a Beauty King" | January 26, 2005 | |
Cosmetics magnate Dean Milo is killed in his Ohio home, and the investigation points police to his brother Fred. | ||||
28 | 4 | "What Price Murder?" | February 2, 2005 | |
Pennsylvania multimillionaire Joel Sandler hires a hit man to kill his estranged wife Linda after she files for divorce. | ||||
29 | 5 | "Mystery in the Mansion" | February 9, 2005 | |
Elisabeth Congdon, the wealthiest woman in Minnesota , is found dead and her daughter Marjorie is a prime suspect. | ||||
30 | 6 | "Crime of Fashion" | February 9, 2005 | |
Maurizio Gucci, the former head of Gucci, is gunned down, and his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani is convicted in the crime. | ||||
31 | 7 | "Rich Man, Poor Man" | February 16, 2005 | |
Generosa Ammon . | ||||
32 | 8 | "Doctor of Deceit" | February 23, 2005 | |
Plastic surgeon Robert Bierenbaum is convicted of strangling his wife and dumping her body in the Atlantic Ocean . |
Season 6
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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33 | 1 | "Deadly Designs" | January 9, 2006 | |
fashion designer Gianni Versace . | ||||
34 | 2 | "Mystery in the Mountains" | January 16, 2006 | |
The wife of a millionaire Sierra Nevada lodge. | ||||
35 | 3 | "Shootout in Bel-Air" | January 23, 2006 | |
Henry Harrison Kyle, the CEO of Four Star Television is gunned down in his Bel Air mansion by his son Ricky. | ||||
36 | 4 | "The Trophy Wife and the Tennis Pro" | January 30, 2006 | |
Debra Hartmann is accused of soliciting the murder of her older husband, a multimillionaire car stereo salesman. | ||||
37 | 5 | "The Starlet and the Skier" | February 6, 2006 | |
Singer-actress Claudine Longet goes on trial in the shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich. | ||||
38 | 6 | "Deception in Dallas" | February 20, 2006 | |
Joy Aylor, the daughter of a wellbred developer, orchestrates the murder of her husband's lover Rozanne Gailiunas. |
Season 7
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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39 | 1 | "The Heiress and the Hit Man" | January 24, 2007 | |
The widow of a successful businessman, Phoenix, Arizona socialite Jeanne Tovrea is found shot dead in her bed. | ||||
40 | 2 | "Biloxi Confidential" | January 31, 2007 | |
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a local judge and his wife are murdered, and it takes investigators years to solve the case. | ||||
41 | 3 | "The Candy Scandal" | February 7, 2007 | |
Candy Mossler's relationship with her nephew Melvin Lane Powers is at the center of her wealthy husband's murder. | ||||
42 | 4 | "Over The Edge" | February 14, 2007 | |
Peter Bergna, a wealthy art appraiser from Lake Tahoe, kills his wife and stages her death as a car crash off a cliff. | ||||
43 | 5 | "Family Betrayal" | February 21, 2007 | |
Ten years after Janet March mysteriously vanishes, her husband Perry, a successful lawyer, is charged with her murder. | ||||
44 | 6 | "Family Plot" | February 28, 2007 | |
Texas teen Kristi Koslow orchestrates a deadly attack on her father, millionaire Jack Koslow, and his wife, Caren Koslow. | ||||
45 | 7 | "Cape Fear" | March 7, 2007 | |
Fashion writer Christa Worthington is killed by garbage collector Christopher McCowen in her home on Cape Cod. |
Season 8
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No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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46 | 1 | "Deadly Delivery" | January 4, 2008 | |
Phoenix businessman Robert Levine orchestrates the murders of his brother and sister-in-law in Munster, Indiana. | ||||
47 | 2 | "House of Secrets" | January 11, 2008 | |
The suspicious deaths of Bruce and Darlene Rouse leave their three children as the prime suspects in their murders. | ||||
48 | 3 | "Traces of Evil" | January 18, 2008 | |
The daughter of a Dallas real estate tycoon, Nancy Dillard Lyon dies with a fatal amount of arsenic in her system. | ||||
49 | 4 | "Tragedy in Telluride" | January 25, 2008 | |
Members of the Shoen family, heirs of U-Haul, blame each other when Eva Shoen is killed in her Telluride, Colorado chalet. | ||||
50 | 5 | "Death of a Salesman" | February 1, 2008 | |
Wealthy businessman Rick Chance is found slain in a hotel room, and two strippers become the prime suspects in his murder. | ||||
51 | 6 | "Mystery in Monaco" | February 8, 2008 | |
Ted Maher is a registered nurse on trial for a deadly fire that killed Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrente in Safra's penthouse. | ||||
52 | 7 | "The Von Bulow Affair" | February 15, 2008 | |
Socialite Claus von Bülow is suspected of inducing his wife Sunny's coma by administering an overdose of insulin. |
Season 9
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | |
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53 | 1 | "Heart of Stone" | July 24, 2009 | |
A Manhattan diamond dealer's fraud scheme leads to the deaths of two company employees and three CBS technicians. | ||||
54 | 2 | "Burning Obsession" | July 31, 2009 | |
When David Coffin is found shot dead in his burning home, the investigation centers around his girlfriend's ex, Scott Davis. | ||||
55 | 3 | "Sinister Harvest" | August 7, 2009 | |
Hanford, California teen Kevin Yocum conspires with friends to kill his parents so he can collect on his inheritance. | ||||
56 | 4 | "Billionaire on the Run" | August 14, 2009 | |
Robert Durst becomes the prime suspect in the murders of Kathleen McCormack, Susan Berman, and Morris Black. | ||||
57 | 5 | "A Deadly Parlay" | August 21, 2009 | |
The murder of Doris Angleton exposes her husband's bookmaking business, and implicates her brother-in-law as a killer. | ||||
58 | 6 | "Programmed for Murder" | August 28, 2009 | |
computer programmer , becomes a suspect in the disappearance and murder of his wife Nina. | ||||
59 | 7 | "Robert Blake" | September 4, 2009 | |
Actor Bonnie Lee Bakley , his second wife of only six months. | ||||
60 | 8 | "Strange Bedfellows" | August 14, 2009 | |
succinylcholine is found in her autopsy results. | ||||
61 | 9 | "Dirty Secrets Down Under" | September 18, 2009 | |
Shirley Withers is responsible for plotting the murder of her boyfriend, Melbourne, Australia millionaire Peter Shellard. | ||||
62 | 10 | "Phil Spector" | September 25, 2009 | |
Music producer Phil Spector ends up on trial when actress Lana Clarkson is found dead in his Alhambra, California mansion. |
Comments
The show started in 2002 and ended with Dunne's death in 2009. Several of the episodes had intersected with his career.[1] The show had "one of the best true-crime writers" of its time, Dominick Dunne.[2] Linda Stasi comments that Dunne reports on the rich and powerful when they kill, and analyses how they are more likely to get away with it, indicating "Dunne nails them - no holds barred."[2] Listed in the Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925-2010, the series is described to present "a look at the dark side of the law" where the rich and famous try to beat the legal system.[3]
References
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Hogan, Mike (2016). Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers (Grayton Carter, Editor). New York, New York: Penguin Books. p. 266. ISBN 9780143111764.
- ^ a b Linda Stasi (June 19, 2002). "Dominick Dunne's Court TV Gig Digs ...Rich Pickin's". New York Post. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
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Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, 2nd edition. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 275. ISBN 978-0786464777.