After returning home from basketball practice on September 28th 2000, David Camm discovers the blood-soaked bodies of his wife and two children in the garage. The former state trooper places an emergency call to 911.
A long-closed case is re-examined.
Reconstructing the investigation into the murder of a man at an Ohio gas station. The case quickly revealed a web of secrets and lies connected to one of the community's richest families.
Paul Solomon returns home to find his wife dead on the living room floor.
Nursing assistant Gail Miller is found dead in an alley, stabbed fourteen times with a paring knife.
Horror stocks a sleepy Welsh village, when a woman is butchered in Cold Blood. The grizzly evidence suggests a ritual sacrifice. Rumors and legends scatter police in all directions. Can forensic science reveal the madman behind the slaughter?
Nursing assistant Gail Miller is found dead in an alley, stabbed fourteen times with a paring knife.
A 6-year-old girl witnesses the murder of her grandmother, and identifies her uncle as the attacker.
Cheryl Miller, a co-ed from Delta College in Saginaw, Mich., is found strangled in her bedroom.
A 78-year-old woman's body is found in the English countryside.
A woman's body is found bound and gagged in an abandoned kindergarten in England; police have no evidence, suspect or witness except for a shoe print found at the scene.
As evidence of a murder that has been committed piles up, so does the confusion.
The body of a high-profile anti-crime activist is found butchered beyond recognition; police uncover a dark side to the victim's personal life.
On New Year's Eve 1991, 45-year-old Catherine Carroll is stabbed 53 times and dies on the bathroom floor. Her 19-year-old son, Greg Parsons, discovers the grizzly scene and charged with murder. Neighbors testify that his mother was terrified of him. And when police uncover a song by his band called 'Kill Your Parents', Greg is eventually sentenced to life in prison. When DNA evidence finally exonerates him years later, police try to revive the stone cold case.
Two Dartmouth College professors are stabbed and left for dead in their home; the murder weapon and a bloody footprint hold the key to solving the crime.
A New Jersey rabbi returns home to find his 52-year-old wife dead on the living room floor.
When 25-year-old Amy St. Laurent disappears, her mother immediately suspects foul play and kicks off a missing person's poster campaign.
A docudrama on the investigation of the rape and murder of a young university student, Sarah Whitehead, in a small northern community in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The body of a 15-year-old girl is found under a slide in the park.
Just after midnight on Saturday, August 27th 1988, driving instructor Keith Slater is woken by his doorbell. As he opens the door a man asks, `Keith Slater?' before knifing him in the throat.
A woman is shot several times while driving home from choir practice.
A real estate agent is found stabbed to death in a model home that she uses to show clients; fingerpirnts and trace evidence are next to useless because of the number of people who have been through the home.
Constantine Dean Milo is found shot to death in the foyer of his home; police find random clues around his house.
A sleepy Pennsylvania town is rocked when a popular dentist is discovered lying in a pool of blood.
Mother found brutally murdered in her California home and her mother leads a campaign that is the key to finding her daughter's killer.
In Boston, a man calls 911 to say his wife has been shot by a black man, and racial tensions run high as police scour the city hunting for the suspect.
The body of a dismembered woman in a series of plastic bags is found floating and an autopsy finds she also suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
A serial killer is on the loose in the college town of Gainesville but police fail to establish a forensic link and the case goes cold.
A photographer from Switzerland is brutally murdered in his Los Angeles home.
A series of violent crimes points to a serial killer with the taste for elderly women and fire.
When the nude body of a young woman is found in an abandoned orchard, all of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is on edge. After all, this is Middle America and murders like this don't happen here. Even worse, the teenage girl was strangled. It takes a few days for police to identify her as 15-year-old Deanna Gillean — a popular and promising high school student from a rundown part of town. The police quickly hone in on her father, Sam Gillean — a man with a serious drinking problem. After all, he and Deanna fought the night she disappeared, and he failed to report her missing for two days. Her brother and his rowdy friends, and a local sex offender are also on the list of suspects. But with almost no evidence and leads that go nowhere, the mystery lies dormant for almost a decade. That is, until a grand jury dusts off the case and discovers the truth had been there all along.
When a pretty and popular Brooklyn college student disappears after a night out in Manhattan, her wealthy father files a missing persons report. Police are convinced she's been abducted. And tragically, just two days later, her charred remains are discovered in the basement of an abandoned home in Queens. With little forensic evidence, investigators begin piecing together a case. And when they learn the victim — 20-year-old Kim Antonakos — liked to hang out with gangster-types, they assemble a list of possible culprits, including an ex-boyfriend nicknamed Psycho. They suspect it was a crime of passion. That is, until they receive an anonymous tip about a kidnapping attempt gone wrong…
In one of the most shocking crimes in Chicago's history, seven fast food workers are gunned down and their bodies left in the restaurant's walk-in freezer. With the suburb of Palatine reeling, and the media clamoring for answers, police struggle to piece together the deadly puzzle.
An international media sensation erupts when a British exchange student is brutally murdered in the Italian university town of Perugia. With her throat slashed, Meredith Kercher’s half-naked body is found in her locked bedroom.
In the dead of night on a lonely San Diego highway, firefighters find a charred body in a burned out convertible. Shot twice in the head before being set ablaze, the victim is David Stevens — an amateur bodybuilder and Nebraska native. But just who would want to kill the man described by friends as a naïve and easygoing 'good ole boy'? The only clue for investigators — Stevens' unkempt bed — reveals he had sex with a mystery woman hours before he was murdered. A voodoo priestess, a stripper and an ex-con make the list of possible suspects. And when the investigation stalls, the victim's family hires their own private investigator. After a series of false leads, the bizarre case eventually goes cold. That is, until a woman makes a sensational confession, and a sordid tale of jealousy, sex and cold-blooded murder is finally revealed.
Just outside Memphis, an affluent Tennessee community is stunned when, in the early morning hours, a gentle, much-loved McDonalds manager is brutally attacked and left for dead on the floor of the restaurant.
A runaway is found raped and strangled to death on the side of a San Diego road.
It's up to one detective to get a victim's family some justice.
An 84-year-old is brutally raped and murdered in her senior living community.
When two men are gunned down in Minneapolis, an anonymous letter points to the possible culpability of anti-gay group.
In Nebraska, a man returns home to find his mother and father shot to death, while nothing of value is missing.
In Colorado, investigators question a man with a criminal past after his wife is found raped and strangled to death.
A family man is shot in the head.
A single mother is savagely beaten while sleeping.
Aiken, South Carolina, is a tiny peaceful town where nothing much happens. Until Jessica Carpenter, 17, is found raped and murdered in her living room. The neighborhood goes on high alert while police swing into action to catch her killer.
Six-year-old Adam Walsh is abducted from a department store and later found murdered, prompting his father, John Walsh, to become an advocate for victims' rights and fostering the formation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
A 21-year-old Oklahoma woman is found raped, beaten, and strangled in her home; it takes years to answer her family's questions about who took her life.
Winston-Salem in 1982 is a city divided by race. And when a young white copy editor is raped and stabbed to death blocks from where she worked, the atmosphere is tense. Twenty years pass before Deborah Sykes' killer finally faces justice once and for all.
Police think the murder of a promising college football player at his 21st birthday party could have been a planned killing.
Shock waves ripple throughout Clearwater, Florida, when an attractive waitress is found on her bedroom floor stabbed 16 times. As years pass and the case goes cold, police fear DNA might not even find justice for Laura Colannino.
Police launch a very risky plan that could let a killer go free when a Pennsylvania chef is found shot to death in his office.
A murderous attack in Park Slope, Brooklyn, leaves Sylvia Lugo dead and her girlfriend, Amanda Leach, raped and shot in the leg. Police struggle to pin down an assailant without any hard evidence, resulting in Leach being pegged as the prime suspect.
A Wharton business student is found raped and strangled to death; a connection is made with other rapes in the same area.
When Rachel Kosub is discovered naked, brutally raped, and strangled to death on her office floor, San Antonio police question who could commit such a vicious murder. They struggle to identify a killer until DNA analysis cracks the case, 20 years later.
Tennessee fast food restaurants are rocked by murder; while police hunt for the killer, the body count rises.
The wife of a property developer falls to her death; too much blood at the scene makes police suspicious.
Family and friends are frantic when 42-year-old Jeanine Harms goes out on a date and disappears into thin air. Though her apartment shows no outward signs of a struggle, her friends notice that some items are missing, including a Persian rug.
Employees at a West Virginia security company are shocked when their boss, Tod McQuaid, radios a bewildering SOS: he’s been shot and left for dead in the Appalachian Mountains.
Nancy Manni’s lifeless body is found floating in Chesapeake Bay; the Maryland Natural Resources Police catch the case. A fulltime student at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship she wouldn’t think twice if a stranger offered her a sunset boat ride.
In 1974 the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, NY, is known for its hard working, and hard-partying, citizens. Twenty-seven-year-old Barbara Lloyd is a married mother of two, and a well-known member of the party crowd.
On June 10, 1997, Carla Larson, 30, drives off her construction site to get some lunch and never comes back. Two days later, the all-American wife and mother is discovered naked, badly decomposed, raped, and strangled to death in a Florida swamp.
In Lynwood, Washington, 1979, Bill Hassler returns home to find his high school sweetheart, 24-year-old Susan Schwarz, naked under a towel, hands bound, and shot three times in the head.
November 2, 1989 - Woodbury, Minnesota. Quiet employee Sharon Bloom leaves work for lunch, never to be seen alive again. Ten days later, she is discovered to be the victim of a gruesome attack.
September 4, 1980 - Thornton, Colorado. Fifteen-year-old Nanine Grimes is home alone, listening to music, and doing schoolwork. Within hours, Nanine is found murdered, stabbed 86 times, and left in five inches of bloody water.
October 31, 1994 - Chicago, IL. Twenty-nine-year-old Renee Rondeau heads home from the gym on a cold, rainy Halloween; her favorite night of the year. The next day, her superintendent finds Renee on her bathroom floor, strangled with a leather belt.
December 26, 2000 - Cassia County, Idaho. Kacy Kay Ray leaves her parents’ home after celebrating Christmas and vanishes. Days later, her frozen body is found in a field bludgeoned and stabbed, the victim of a gruesome rape.
A beautiful young violinist is murdered at the venerable Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan and the story becomes an international scandal. Police interview everyone behind the scenes and the search is on for the real ‘Phantom of the Opera.’
Fourteen-year-old Karen Slattery is brutally stabbed and raped while babysitting in South Florida’s upscale Delray Beach. Police follow up on dozens of tips but the case goes cold.
A woman’s body is dumped alongside a road near Tampa, Florida. And within a year, the bodies of two more women are found at the side of the road. Detectives fear a serial predator is on the loose, but the search for the killer will take years.
A pillar of the Haitian community in Spring Valley, New York, is gunned down in his driveway, and the suspects include the victim’s terminally ill wealthy second wife, his alleged mistress, and her gun-toting ex-husband.
With a thriving business and a baby on the way, a Florida couple is strangled to death in their home. Suspicions about drug smuggling and an aviation deal gone wrong lead detectives to Belize, but they eventually find the killer much closer to home.
In Boston, 18-year-old Amy Roman is found slaughtered in her South End apartment. Police believe the victim knew her assailant. But when the case goes cold, her determined family undertakes an investigation of their own.
33-year-old Bob Henry is gunned down in broad daylight outside the Tacoma, Washington warehouse where he works. The execution-style murder looks like a professional hit. But to solve the crime, police need to find the murder weapon.
When John and Nancy Bosco are shot at close range in their Bigfork, Montana home, the search is on for a cold-blooded killer. But with few clues and no suspects the case stalls. And John’s mother eventually turns to an unorthodox source for help.
Kathleen Smith is bludgeoned to death and her Tempe, Arizona home is then set on fire. Investigators have two suspects but no hard evidence to tie either to the murder. And it will take 15 years before a jailhouse tip finally leads cops to the killer.
A glamorous flight attendant disappears and the story makes headlines. An intense search reveals few clues. But a graveside discovery eventually forces police to take a second look at some already familiar faces.
Twelve-year-old Polly Klaas and two friends are having a sleepover and playing board games, when a man brandishing a knife appears at the door, ties them up, nabs Polly, and then disappears into the night.
Single mom Donna Kitowski decides to bake cookies late at night and heads to her local Las Vegas supermarket. But she never comes home. And before long, the local TV news is reporting that a woman’s near-lifeless body has been found in the desert.
When a work crew uncovers a woman’s skull on a stretch of Florida highway, investigators try to determine who she is and find her killer. But it will take a bizarre discovery over a thousand miles away before the grizzly truth is finally revealed.
When Cathy Lamb is brutally murdered in her Palm Beach, Florida home, the only witnesses are her three blood-soaked dogs. The gruesome scene baffles detectives. And with no suspects and no murder weapon, they have only their suspicions to go on.
A hard-working single mom is murdered in a Michigan town where violent crime rates are nearly four times the national average. And while a TV celebrity leads a major media campaign, the search is on for a mysterious man known only as ‘B’.
In an Indiana college town, a 19-year-old journalism student is raped and murdered in her own bed. The case becomes the latest of several unsolved homicides in the area. And it will take years—and yet another murder—before the sinister truth emerges.
Investigators believe a serial robber, rapist, and murderer is terrorizing cities up and down the west coast. And as the death toll rises, police jurisdictions in three states join the hunt for the ‘I-5 Killer.’
Country singer Melissa Haferman has just recorded her first CD in Nashville when her lifeless body is found in a vacant lot near the Louisville, Kentucky bus depot. And it will take four years and a macabre discovery before police close in on her killer.
The residents of Kilgore, Texas are reeling from the execution-style slaying of five people abducted from a fast-food restaurant. But it will take several decades and major advances in DNA technology before the perpetrators can be brought to justice.
A 20-year-old woman is gunned down in a Maryland suburb and the random crime is a mystery from the start. With few leads and virtually no evidence, the case goes cold. And it will take 25 years before investigators finally close in on the killer.
The severely mutilated body of 17-year-old Shauna Card is discovered in her Orlando, Florida home. And though it takes years to crack the case, detectives eventually unravel a grizzly tale and find a killer closer to home than anyone expected.
Authorities in Washington are stunned when a beloved mother of three dies from cyanide poisoning. And the resulting murder investigation eventually reveals a pattern of tampered boxes and blister packs and more deaths.
A popular college student is brutally stabbed to death during her first-ever night shift at a convenience store in Great Falls, Montana. And it will take a decade before an informant comes forward with a story that leads the cops to her killer.
A woman's body is dumped in a park. As detectives connect the dots, a spate of seemingly random beatings, carjackings, and murders soon tells the story of a one-man crime spree.
Marilyn Habian is shot in the heart in the basement of her home. Years after the case goes cold, news of a potential prison confession leads investigators back to her door.
Kimberly Dunkins body is found with a single gunshot to the head. It will take 15 years before the case finally begins to unravel.
When a 14-year-old girl is beaten and set on fire, the crime shocks the community. With a possible serial killer on the loose, investigators hunt for a monster.
When a pregnant 23-year-old is shot in her own bed, investigators must quickly determine if the killer is known to the victim.
It’s a September morning in 1973, and Debra Dill’s bludgeoned body is discovered next to her car in rural Maine. Her grieving community wakes up to a nightmare, but it will take nearly two decades before the killer is behind bars.
When the naked blood-soaked body of a young woman is found on the floor of her Orlando apartment, it’s up to investigators to find her killer before he strikes again.
A high school senior is murdered in her family's Minnesota farmhouse, but with little evidence the case soon goes cold. Years later, a new set of eyes spots an overlooked clue, but cold case detectives will need more to convict the killer.
A widow is murdered in her Salt Lake City home. Despite suspicion that the victim was murdered by someone she knew, the case goes cold for two decades, until a set of children's fingerprints leads to the killer.
In a sleepy New Hampshire town, a man answers a knock at the door and is shot dead through the screen. Investigators are stumped. That is, until they uncover a seething grudge and a culprit closer to home than anyone could have imagined.
Deep in Southern Louisiana, the bodies start piling up in a series of deadly home invasions. There's a curious link between the victims and a similar MO, and before long a combined task force is on the hunt for a serial killer.
When the mutilated body of 17-year-old Lori Billingsley is found in a ditch on the outskirts of town, it's obvious a sadistic killer is on the loose in Oregon. But when the case goes cold, it's her sister who's determined to get justice for Lori.
When 18-year-old Lisa Monza is murdered in San Lorenzo, California, investigators look for a connection to other unsolved murders in the area. But it will take several years and help from an unlikely source before they can track down her killer.
