Famous FBI Cases: Texas | TRIPLE EPISODE | The FBI Files

Held for Ransom (S04E18): In rural Texas, 13-year-old is kidnapped on her way to school. Frantic to find her safely, her millionaire father calls local authorities and the FBI. As police officers and agents conduct aerial surveillance, the father drives hundreds of miles through the night to deliver the ransom cash to a drop that the kidnappers keep changing. In a final effort to save the young girl, investigators must engage in a dangerous firefight with five desperate criminals.

Railroad Killer (S05E06): In the summer of 1999, Texas was terrorized by a brutal serial killer who traveled by train. The FBI assembled a task force to gather information about the dangerous drifter and create a profile that would help locate him. As they learned that the killer had traveled extensively through the United States and Mexico, the murders became more frequent, and authorities had to cast a dragnet over an entire continent in an effort to catch him.

Fateful Crossing (S05E17): In January 1984, a U.S. Customs official disappears from his post near the Del Rio, Texas border crossing, prompting local police to search for four Latin American suspects driving a Pontiac Grand Prix. The following day, the Customs official was found dead. Two state troopers recovered the missing officer’s service revolver after a fatal altercation with two men. Local police and the FBI continued searching for the suspect vehicle, prepared for a confrontation with desperate criminals.

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