Series from 2004
Manhunt is a 13-part series that traces the chase for missing murderers, suspected criminals and those who have mysteriously disappeared. With dogged …
On March 4, 1952, three men robbed the Bank of Montreal in Toronto. A caretaker mistakenly turned off the alarm so clerks upstairs could not signal police. The increasingly notorious Boyd Gang escaped with almost $25,000, raising their haul over the past three months to an astonishing $72,000. The mayor declared a "reign of terror" and the manhunt for Edwin Alonzo Boyd began.
On July 13, 1910, at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, a suburb of London, tenacious Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter C. Dew and a team of investigators uncovered what proved to be filleted human remains without bones, limbs or heads. Three days later, "Doctor" Hawley Harvey Crippen and Miss Ethel Le Neve became the subjects of an international manhunt.
In 1945, Allied forces occupied Germany after five years of war, and German war criminals including Adolf Eichmann went into hiding. Eichmann visited his family in Austria and gave poison to his wife in case the Russians captured them. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide. Germany surrendered, launching a massive global manhunt for the criminals of war - especially Karl Adolf Otto Eichmann.
On August 28, 1973, high temperatures shut down elevators in Manhattan's Diplomat Hotel. Two drug buyers walked up ten floors for cocaine that was only 17% pure. Real dealers might have killed the seller for the low quality, but these were narcotics officers arresting 60s political folk hero Abbie Hoffman. Two weeks later, Hoffman skipped bail and became the subject of a seven-year manhunt.
In 1931, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Alfred "Buns" King cautiously knocked at a log cabin situated eight miles up Canada's Rat River. King was shot by the man inside, a trapper whose name may have been Albert Johnson. A manhunt ensued led by dogsled, foot and plane across the northern tundra region.
On October 23, 1998, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Bernard Slepian returned home from a visit to his synagogue and was making soup in the kitchen when he was killed by a bullet from a high-powered assault rifle. It was not the first murder of an abortionist, but it launched an international manhunt for a man who thought killing was a way to save lives.