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The Best Episodes of The FBI Files

Witness the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling cases. From crime scene analysis to the most...

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  1. Background image for Killer Abroad
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #1 - Killer Abroad

    S2:E14

    The bodies of several women began turning up in and around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Crazy Don
    7.6/10(61 votes)

    #2 - The Crazy Don

    S1:E6

    The reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, Vince Gigante wandered the streets of New York wearing only pajamas and a bathrobe, but the FBI was convinced he was anything but crazy. The FBI helped convict Gigante of murder and murder conspiracy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for A Stranger in Town
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #3 - A Stranger in Town

    S2:E5

    The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted to identity the body and to find the killer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Predator
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #4 - The Predator

    S3:E6

    A stranger snatched an eight-year-old girl as she played in her Tucson, Arizona neighborhood. Within hours, a drifter who was out on parole for abducting and molesting children, but he was nowhere to be found and time had run out.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for A Model Killer
    7.5/10(62 votes)

    #5 - A Model Killer

    S2:E1

    Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead. national publicity that the FBI created led to the capture of the suspect.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Cat and Mouse
    7.5/10(52 votes)

    #6 - Cat and Mouse

    S2:E3

    Young women were being abducted from their own front yards in broad daylight. The FBI was determined to put an end to the serial killer's deadly game of cat and mouse.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Crime Spree
    7.5/10(43 votes)

    #7 - Crime Spree

    S2:E10

    A couple engaged in a gruesome crime spree that spanned six states and left eight people dead-including children.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Cop Killer
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #8 - Cop Killer

    S2:E17

    Two officers had been shot and one had been murdered in Washington, D.C.. Each had been sitting in their patrol cars when a man sneaked up and opened fire. The FBI was brought in to help catch the cop killer, and this led to a violent gun battle.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for First and Kennedy Street Crew
    7.5/10(36 votes)

    #9 - First and Kennedy Street Crew

    S3:E3

    Street gangs in Washington D.C. enforced their territories with lethal violence. Authorities vowed to bring the entire gang to justice while the gang leader had fled to Africa.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Deadly Stranger
    7.5/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Deadly Stranger

    S3:E12

    Police and FBI agents track a serial killer in a cross-country manhunt.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Hunter's Game
    7.4/10(53 votes)

    #11 - Hunter's Game

    S2:E6

    The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Shattered Shield
    7.4/10(46 votes)

    #12 - Shattered Shield

    S2:E8

    Lured by the easy wealth of the narcotics industry, crooked cops in the New Orleans Police Department began breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold in the early 1990s.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Firefight
    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #13 - Firefight

    S2:E13

    A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI. What followed was the bloodiest firefight in FBI history.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Deadly Obsession
    7.4/10(44 votes)

    #14 - Deadly Obsession

    S3:E2

    A woman vanishes, and police suspect that her powerful ex-lover, a married man, was responsible. When investigators can't find the woman's body or the murder weapon, the FBI's only hope was to go undercover and turn brother against brother.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Terror In Disguise
    7.4/10(36 votes)

    #15 - Terror In Disguise

    S3:E4

    Masked bandits pulled off a daring mid-day bank robbery. With no evidence leaving behind, the FBI forced their own luck.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Silent Strike
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    #16 - Silent Strike

    S3:E11

    Glendale, Arizona mall, local authorities and the FBI scrambled to recover its cargo of nearly a million dollars.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Manhunt
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #17 - Manhunt

    S3:E15

    A California man was found dismembered. The murder suspect was found six months later when he was caught robbing an Arizona bank and sentenced to life. When he escaped from prison, the FBI led a manhunt for the killer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The C-11 Squad
    7.4/10(33 votes)

    #18 - The C-11 Squad

    S3:E18

    In the season 3 finale, Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods. After a 10-year-old boy became a victim, the FBI formed a task force called C-11, designed to dismantle the gangs.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Death in Alaska
    7.3/10(65 votes)

    #19 - Death in Alaska

    S1:E4

    A young mother and her two daughters were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Anchorage, Alaska. With only one piece of forensic evidence, a wash rag carrying pubic lice with which the killer used to clean himself, the FBI helped convicted the woman's nephew, Kirby Anthoney on all three counts of murders.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Murdering Cowboy
    7.3/10(69 votes)

    #20 - Murdering Cowboy

    S1:E10

    Claude Dallas lived the life of a cowboy -- a loner and distrustful of authority. When two game wardens confronted Dallas about his deeds, they were shot and killed. After a massive manhunt , Dallas was captured and convicted, but he escaped prison within months.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Driven to Kill
    7.3/10(52 votes)

    #21 - Driven to Kill

    S3:E1

    A 14-year-old girl ran away from her mother's home and disappeared without a trace. A farmer later discovered the young girl's remains in an Illinois barn.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Dishonored
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #22 - Dishonored

    S3:E7

    Marine Captain Shirley Russell disappeared. FBI agents found her husband, himself a former Marine, was acting strangely. The FBI's intense investigation revealed a violent past.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Final Takedown
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #23 - Final Takedown

    S7:E18

    In the 1990s, a gang based in the U.S. Virgin Islands smuggled large amounts of cocaine into mainland America. In an investigation spanning from Georgia to South America, the FBI and DEA were able to identify the leader and bring down the drug ring.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Hired Gun
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    #24 - Hired Gun

    S2:E2

    A multiple murder-for-hire plot that was meticulously planned and executed. A mother, her 8-year-old son, and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. the FBI was able to zero in on Larry Horn, the father of the 8-year-old.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Deadly Mission
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #25 - Deadly Mission

    S2:E16

    Two brothers gained national attention after a videotaped shoot-out with state and local officers in Wilmington, Ohio. The brothers escaped and fled the state.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Killer Abroad" is the best rated episode of "The FBI Files". It scored 7.7/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/2/2000. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Crazy Don".