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Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953: An impoverished Cherokee named Buster Youngwolfe confesses to brutally raping and murdering his eleven-year-old female relative. When Youngwolfe recants his confession, saying he was forced to confess by the authorities, his city condemns him, except for one man-public defender and Creek Indian Elliott Howe. Recognizing in Youngwolfe the life that could have been his if not for a few lucky breaks, Howe risks his career to defend Youngwolfe against the powerful county attorney's office.

The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun.

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar. However, the woman wasn't killed by the car, she was seen getting into a green van...with a shoe painted on the side.

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed.

A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe!

One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the government called in Detective John Wilson Murray, the true-life model for Detective William Murdoch of the popular TV series Murdoch Mysteries. His prime clue was a black valise. The Man with the Black Valise traces the killer's trajectory through three counties-a route that today connects travelers to poignant reminders of nineteenth-century life.