When newlyweds Sherri Rasmussen and John Ruetten kiss goodbye on the morning of Feb. 24, 1986, it will be the last kiss they will ever share; Sherri is found murdered in their home hours later, and the case goes unsolved for 20 years.
When 16-year-old Dinah Peterson sneaks out to see her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, she never makes it home; as the small town gossip spreads, the case takes a shocking turn, and a 30-year-old secret is finally revealed.
In 2009, art student Samantha "Shelley" Nance is found murdered by her college roommate, causing gossip to erupt on campus; jealousy and secret crushes make for strong motives, but detectives struggle to nail the suspect.
Law student Jesse Valencia is found with his throat slashed, and in a college town filled with parties and one-night stands, the list of possible suspects is very long, but one of Valencia's lovers may have had a secret to keep.
In Biloxi, Miss., Vince and Margaret Sherry are shot dead, causing rumors to spread about who would want to kill such a well-respected couple; as it turns out, there's a long list of shady characters and scandalous conspiracies behind their murders.
Real estate tycoon Gary Triano is killed by a car bomb after playing a round of golf at a Tucson, Ariz., country club, causing rumors to spread about who actually wanted him dead.
When David Harmon is bludgeoned to death in his bed, his traumatized wife tells a lurid story of masked burglars, but police start to suspect there is something evil afoot in this conservative religious town.
Melissa Mooney is excited to move into her new home, but she never gets the chance; when her FBI co-workers discover her strangled to death in her own bed on moving day, they launch a personal manhunt to catch her killer.
Seventeen-year-old Taylor Behl starts college filled with confidence that she is ready for life on her own, but she vanishes two weeks later and after her body is found, it becomes apparent that she had a brush with darkness resulting in tragedy.
After 17-year-old Missy Avila is found drowned in a stream, police discover she has been badly beaten and her long hair has been cut off and the investigation uncovers a story of passion, rage, jealousy and betrayal.
Hard-working small businesswoman Mary Ann Clibbery is found bludgeoned to death inside her remodeling business just before Christmas and police are completely stumped as to who would want this well-liked entrepreneur dead.
Carolyn Stahl is expecting a birthday surprise, but instead ends up being gunned down alongside her husband in their car.
After mother-to-be Rhoni Reuter is shot to death in her condo, all attention is directed at the baby's father, former NFL football player Shaun Gayle.
When Hollywood cameraman Robert Samuels is brutally gunned down in his own home, somebody wants to make it look like a burglary.
An evening's celebration is cut short when a couple is shot on a beach in Jacksonville, Fla.; the surviving husband shares his incredible eyewitness account of how his wife was murdered.
In the 1970's, Janet Walsh is bound and strangled on her bed after a night of disco dancing; police have an eye to several lovers as suspects, but the days of disco will long be over by the time her killer is finally brought to justice.
Police find Kathleen Lipscomb's dead body curled up by the side of a road; unraveling the mystery of how she got there will take them into a dark world of corruption, bribes and deadly ambition.
Sue Snow dies from cyanide poisoning after taking pills, causing police to think they may have a random crime on their hands until a second victim appears.
Rozanne Gailunas is shot dead after opening her door to receive a delivery; police focus on her estranged husband and a secret lover; all trails go cold until someone claims they married the hit man hired to kill her.
A woman finds her friend shot to death in her home and tells police she saw her boyfriend at the crime scene; this open-and-shut case is complicated by the fact that the victim has more than one jealous boyfriend as well as a few jealous girlfriends.
After defrauding his clients of more than 40 million dollars, Andrew Kissel is found stabbed to death in the basement of his mansion in Greenwich, Conn.; with so many suspects, investigators ask who was angry enough to resort to murder.
Mechanic Ed Postma pulls into a parking lot at a convenience store to help with a breakdown, not expecting to be shot to death; persistent police work uncovers a bitter love triangle fueled by jealousy and rage.
A wounded and bleeding Charles Stuart calls 911 with a terrified tale of carjacking, that results in the death of his pregnant wife. As police mount a manhunt for the described killers, something just doesn't add up.
Brian Barrett was shot to death just before he was supposed to meet his online dream girl. To catch the killer, police must venture into the murky world of chat rooms - but how can they solve the case when the killer is a virtual shadow?
When wealthy couple Dennis and Merna Koula are violently gunned down in their own home in La Crosse, WI on May 24, 2010, the police suspect that it was a home invasion, but the investigation reveals signs of an execution-style killing.
When Susan Smith from Kentucky becomes an informant for the FBI, she mysteriously disappears without a trace in 1989, but her sister Shelby insists that Susan's mystery boyfriend, who was also an FBI agent, is responsible for her disappearance.
Day laborer Abraham Shakespeare wins $30 million in a lottery drawing, then he goes missing; while his family hopes he's living on a beach somewhere, his body turns up buried in a backyard.
When Derrick Dorsey finds his wife, Kim, dead in their bed, he tells 911 he thinks she's committed suicide; police find it a strange conclusion to draw since there are bullet holes in the wall and zip ties around Kim's wrists.
Melissa Oxley is woken in the middle of the night to a shotgun blast and the smell of gunpowder, with her husband Ben, dead beside her. The killer has vanished, but the bigger mystery is why was she left alive?
Shortly after Devon Guzman moves in with her partner Keary, she is found dead in the backseat of her car. Something doesn't add up, especially when police find out her relationship is an "open" one with more than one jealous lover.
Single mother Dana Laskowski is found strangled to death in her home one night when her triplets are visiting their father. The crime scene suggests she knew her attacker and it seems there are a few people who had an unhealthy obsession with her.
When two friends are shot to death in their beds, the words "Satan loves you" is left as a message in the kitchen. As the case widens, it becomes clear that there are several people who may have wanted these women dead, and Satan isn't one of them.
When Bob Dorotick is found dead by the side of a road with tire tracks leading from the scene, it's obvious he was murdered. But what's mysterious is that he wasn't hit by a car, he was bludgeoned, drugged and strangled. Who wants him dead?
Jack Jessee is fighting a losing battle with cancer, but his remaining time is cut short when he is stabbed to death in his own home. Police quickly decide this is no random robbery, but all the best suspects have iron-clad alibis.
After a late night pizza run, Dana Woods and June Guerry go missing. As their frantic parents search for them, they see a strange man driving Dana's car, and the girls are never seen alive again.
When Carolyn Krizan-Wilson claims a barefooted burglar shot her husband Roy McCaleb to death, police spend years trying to track down the mysterious killer. It is only with the onset of dementia does Carolyn finally reveal the missing clue.