In 1998, John Ruffo, a charismatic New York businessman, was due to begin a 17-year sentence for a staggering $350 million bank fraud. He drove to an ATM, withdrew a few hundred dollars, abandoned his car at JFK airport, and simply vanished.

This episode dives into the story of one of America's most audacious scams and one of its most elusive fugitives. We uncover how Ruffo and his partner, Edward Reiners, conned international banks with a fictitious tech project, and then explore the decades-long manhunt that followed Ruffo's disappearance. For over 25 years, the U.S. Marshals have chased his shadow across the globe.

How does a man carrying a 210-month prison sentence manage to disappear without a trace? This is the story of the con man who pulled off one final, unbelievable vanishing act.

In the summer of 1975, a wave of unexplained medical crises swept through the Ann Arbor Veterans Association Hospital. Dozens of patients suddenly stopped breathing - fully conscious and terrified, but completely paralyzed.

When a sharp-witted anesthesiologist recognizes the horrifying symptoms as poisoning by a powerful surgical paralytic, the hospital becomes the center of a massive FBI investigation. Decades later, the mystery of who stalked the halls of the Ann Arbor VA hospital - and why - remains one of America's most disturbing cases.

In May 1979, the American justice system was shaken to its core. Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr. - known by criminals as "Maximum John" for the harsh sentences he handed down - was shot and killed by a sniper outside his San Antonio home. It was the first murder of a federal judge in the 20th century, and it triggered one of the largest FBI investigations in history.

This episode unravels the story of a crime that was a direct assault on the rule of law. We explore the powerful drug trafficking empire of Jamiel "Jimmy" Chagra, the man who ordered the hit, and the notorious contract killer he hired to carry it out, Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelson.