
True-crime series are a staple of the TV landscape. "Corrupt Crimes" analyzes recent criminal cases through a combination of expert testimony and dramatic storytelling. From crimes like doping in sports to more serious offenses like murder, the series exposes what is really going on in each case. Exposing corruption across the United States is the goal of the series. Cases featured in the half-hour episodes include an ATM heist that resulted in nearly $45 million being stolen worldwide and the former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

After a 25-year-old landscape architect is murdered along a roadside, police receive an anonymous tip that leads them to the killer.

A strangler has killed several elderly women in Mexico City; there is no connection between the victims and no discernible motive; after the police investigation comes to nothing, the killer is suddenly caught red-handed.

When elderly women are murdered in an upscale gated community, detectives uncover a trail of credit card fraud that leads them to the killer.

When a young woman disappears from the streets of Southampton, England, police launch a massive manhunt; the killer is one step ahead and flees to India, with the victim's parents hot on his heels.