Gardner Art Heist: Stealing Beauty
How It Really Happened - S8 - E5
Saint Patrick's Day 1990, robbers stormed Boston's Gardner Museum, making off with 13 priceless artworks, never to be recovered. Valued at half a billion dollars, the whereabouts of the missing pieces remain a mystery.
How It Really Happened: Season 8 - 7 Episode s
8x1 - Titanic (1): A Clear and Starry Night
April 28, 2024
The fateful Titanic shipwreck of 1912 intertwines with a recent underwater OceanGate voyage that cost more human lives. Interviews with historians, wreck analysts, and descendants of Titanic passengers shed light on both tragedies.
8x2 - Titanic (2): The Last Moments
April 28, 2024
Recent scientific advances have uncovered new secrets around the Titanic sinking, challenging previous notions about the ship's fate. This chapter continues to analyze the wreck and a recent underwater expedition that claimed more lives.
8x3 - Anthrax: Terror by Mail
May 5, 2024
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the nation faced a new threat: anthrax, dubbed "the poor man's nuclear bomb." This easily weaponized bacteria sparked widespread fear, leading to one of the FBI's largest investigations.
8x4 - Oscar Pistorius: The Bladerunner
May 12, 2024
The shocking killing of Reeva Steenkamp by Olympic superstar Oscar Pistorius on Valentine's Day 2013 shattered the illusion of a storybook romance between a celebrated Hollywood couple. Was it a terrible accident or a callous murder?
8x5 - Gardner Art Heist: Stealing Beauty
May 19, 2024
Saint Patrick's Day 1990, robbers stormed Boston's Gardner Museum, making off with 13 priceless artworks, never to be recovered. Valued at half a billion dollars, the whereabouts of the missing pieces remain a mystery.
8x6 - The Atlanta Olympic Bombing Part 1: "You Have 30 Minutes"
July 28, 2024
In the summer of 1996, a bombing at the Atlanta Olympics killed two and injured over 100; an intense manhunt ensued, with the media and law enforcement falsely accusing security guard Richard Jewell as a suspect.
8x7 - The Atlanta Olympic Bombing Part 2: The Bomber Is Watching
July 28, 2024
Interviews with former special agents, journalists, and Richard Jewell's associates provide insight into the case and its aftermath; subsequent bombings over the next eighteen months led investigators to suspect a serial bomber in Atlanta.