Building Bad

Revealing how criminals innovate to stay ahead of law enforcement.

Junior Johnson's moonshine-fueled rise in NASCAR to sophisticated smuggling tunnels and the Trap King who engineered hidden drug...

Criminal strategies evolve constantly; the Alcatraz escape in 1962 demonstrates early ingenuity; the discovery of heavily armored drug...

From Leonardo Notarbartolo’s Diamond Heist to the bone factory in West Bengal, each story unveils the lengths criminals go to evade capture.

Discover the chilling campaign of the Unabomber, whose mail bombs terrorized the nation.

Bill McCoy, the Prohibition-era rum runner whose ingenuity in maritime smuggling earned him the moniker “the real McCoy.”

Witness the explosive tactics of the McNamara brothers in 1910, whose dynamite-fueled attack on the LA Times reshaped the future.

The daring Hatton Garden heist where elderly criminals made off with £14 million in valuables.

The audacious escapades of Gerald Blanchard, a master thief who executed high-profile heists and bank robberies across Canada.

Uncover the exploits of Jeffrey Manchester, the "Roofman," who ingeniously eludes capture while orchestrating new heists.