Ask anyone with relatives in law enforcement and they’ll tell you: cops love sharing stories from the job.
That time a perp’s bullet cut the air just left of their heads during a foot chase through a park at night. The one time they saved a little girl who’d been kidnapped by her neighbor. The hunch they had or clue they uncovered that pushed an investigation in the right direction. The confession they elicited from a child killer after hours of interrogation.
FBI special agents are no different — and usually have better stories — as Paramount+ has shown over seven seasons of FBI True, the riveting docuseries that returns for an eighth season on Tuesday, March 31.
On FBI True, retired agents meet up for a coffee or beer and sit around a table to relive some of their biggest cases, giving viewers a candid glimpse at the bureau’s inner workings while also getting into some of the raw details that even the courts never heard.
Us Weekly has the first look at what’s coming in this exclusive season 8 trailer.
This season starts off with the tragic case of 11-year-old Colorado Springs Gannon Stauch, who vanished in 2020. His stepmother, Letecia Stauch, told police a man who raped her kidnapped the boy. With help from Gannon’s father, agents were able to connect Letecia to Gannon’s murder.
The series will also delve into the case of University of Illinois student Yingying Zhang, who went missing from campus in 2017. They even take a look back at the 2022 hostage crisis inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, and tell the story of how agents protected the FBI’s New Orleans field office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The agents also discuss the Austin serial bombings of 2018, the Setagaya family murder case from 2020, and, in a two-part episode, the takedown of “Teflon Don” John Gotti, boss of New York’s Gambino mafia crime family.
And Paramount+ won’t make fans wait: all 10 episodes will be available to stream on March 31.
FBI True is from executive producers Shawn Efran’s Bright North Studios, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat Productions, and Anne Beagan’s Anne Beagan Productions. Solly Granatstein is the showrunner and, along with Morgan Hertzan and Azadeh de Leon, an executive producer.
Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong are the executive producers, and Aysu Saliba and Cara Tortora are supervising producers for See It Now Studios.
See It Now Studios develops and produces original documentaries and docuseries for Paramount+, CBS, Paramount Global’s television networks, international distributors, and third-party platforms. They were the studio behind the Emmy Award-winning We Will Dance Again about the Hamas attack at the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival, and Emmy-nominated titles 11 Minutes and Watergate: High Crimes in the White House.
They also brought audiences The Carters: Hurts to Love You, directed by Soleil Moon Frye, Superpower, co-directed by Sean Penn, JFK: What the Doctors Saw, the Mandy Patinkin-narrated series Indivisible: Healing Hate, and hit series such as Never Seen Again and 9/11: The Race Against Time. See It Now Studios is led by President Susan Zirinsky.
Season 8 of FBI True is available for streaming on Paramount+ starting Thursday, March 31.
