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The FBI Files: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Oct 20, 1998 Updated Oct 1, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Polly Klaas: Kidnapped

Oct 20, 1998 · 46 min

Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her own slumber party and murdered, lasers helped the FBI identify and find the perpetrator. It took 200 FBI agents two months to find Richard Allen

S1·E2 Core

Above the Law

Nov 3, 1998 · 46 min

The body of 23 year old Robin Bishop was discovered near her car on a remote highway. After acquitted in two state trials, Gwaltney was convicted of the murder in the federal trial

S1·E3 Core

Human Prey

Nov 10, 1998 · 46 min

Thomas Dillon killed five outdoorsmen over a period of three years in rural Ohio. A mother's letter published in the newspaper addressing the murderer of her son prompted the kille

S1·E4 Mytharc

Death in Alaska

Nov 14, 1998 · 46 min

A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage, Alaska. With only one piece of forensic evidence, a wash rag carrying pubic lice wi

S1·E5 Core

Deadly Paradise

Dec 1, 1998 · 46 min

Two couples found themselves on the same deserted island paradise, but only one couple left alive. Buck Walker and Stephanie Sterns arrived in Hawaii on the Sea Wind, which belonge

S1·E6 Mytharc

The Crazy Don

Dec 8, 1998 · 46 min

The reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, Vince Gigante wandered the streets of New York wearing only pajamas and a bathrobe, but the FBI was convinced he was anything but cra

S1·E7 Core

Killing Spree

Dec 29, 1998 · 46 min

No suspect had emerged after the rapes and murders of ten women near Tampa, Florida in 1984. When one of the killer's victims survived, the FBI was able to identify 31-year-old Bob

S1·E8 Core

Melissa Brannen: Missing

Jan 19, 1999 · 46 min

5-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared from a Christmas party on Dec. 3, 1989, leaving behind a family wracked with anguish.

S1·E9 Core

The Unabomber

Jan 26, 1999 · 46 min

He was a recluse who spread terror through the mail for 18 years. Two men died and more than a dozen were injured , but Ted Kaczynski wasn't known as the Unabomber until his brothe

S1·E10 Core

Murdering Cowboy

Feb 2, 1999 · 46 min

Claude Dallas lived the life of a cowboy -- a loner and distrustful of authority. When two game wardens confronted Dallas about his deeds, they were shot and killed. After a massiv

S1·E11 Core

The World Trade Center Bombing

Feb 9, 1999 · 46 min

On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade Center parking garage. Six people died and more than a thousand were injured in the bomb blast which tore a 5-story crater

S1·E12 Mytharc

John Gotti: Convicted

Feb 23, 1999 · 46 min

By December 1985, John Gotti had assumed his place as the new Don of the Gambino crime family in New York with the assassination of his boss, Paul Castellano. When the FBI convince

S1·E13 Mytharc

The True Story of Mississippi Burning

Feb 23, 1999 · 46 min

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers, who set out to educate southern blacks about receiving the right to vote, disappeared in Mississippi. The FBI gained the trust of an i

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