How It Really Happened

Actor Jesse L. Martin delves deeply into some of the most notorious crimes, mysteries, trials and celebrity tragedies of all time.
Madeline McCann: The Night She Disappeared
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Kate and Gerry McCann vacation in 2007 at a Portuguese resort where their 3-year-old daughter, Madeleine, vanishes; heavy media reporting creates backlash, but there is now a new suspect.

Madeline McCann: Who Took Madeline?
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Fifteen years after Madeleine McCann vanishes, a new suspect is considered in her disappearance at a resort in Portugal.

Kobe Bryant Fateful Flight: Red Flags
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Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020, kills all nine people on board, including his daughter Gigi, and leaves the world searching for answers.

Kobe Bryant Fateful Flight: What Went Wrong?
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Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020, kills all nine people on board, including his daughter Gigi, and leaves the world searching for answers.

The Hollywood Ripper: He Was Watching Them
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A woman is murdered inside her Hollywood home just before her date with actor Ashton Kutcher; as detectives search for answers, her friends relay stories about a strange air conditioning repairman who would show up uninvited at her home.

Adrienne Shelly: Nothing's As It Seems
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41-year-old Adrienne Shelly was a filmmaker and mother who had just finished her film "Waitress" when she was found hanging from a shower curtain rod; initially, authorities believe her death to be a suicide, but soon learn nothing is what it seems.

Lorena Bobbitt: Tick Tick Boom
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In the late hours of night, a man lies fast asleep in his bed while a woman looms over his prone body with a kitchen knife and slices off his manhood; this marks the end of the broken marriage between Lorena and John Bobbitt.