
From grieving family and friends to jilted lovers and eyewitnesses, investigators pore over every detail and discrepancy to uncover motives for murder.

A recently divorced young woman is last seen at a bar; without a body or any solid leads, the case goes cold; decades later, an FBI agent...

A 77-year-old preacher’s widow is stabbed to death in her apartment; though the evidence includes a bloody handprint, it will take 25 years and a family's persistence before a tipster's mother forces him to come clean.

The body of a naked women is dumped along a stretch of Wisconsin highway known as the killing fields; detectives encounter a long list of suspects who refuse to talk; that is, until a tipster offers up a shocking twist that blows the case wide open.

The execution-style killing of a vacuum-cleaner salesman sends shockwaves through an Indiana town; the truth proves darker than anyone could have imagined when an unrelated arrest years later provides the lead needed to catch the killers.

In a Denver suburb, the new Assistant DA is found dead in her bathtub; though the search for suspects leads investigators to Kansas, the case ultimately hinges on a single hair found at the crime scene and one man's heavy conscience.

When a Mississippi mechanic is murdered, local investigators encounter a series of shocking twists, a master manipulator and an innocent pawn who pays a high price for love and duty.

When Cynthia Borton's mutilated body is found on her kitchen floor, Iowa investigators suspect her husband; that is, until an arsonist sets the town ablaze, and an even darker suspect emerges from the shadows.

In the California desert, the decomposing body of 54-year-old Henry Stange is discovered in a shallow grave. It will take a shrewd wiretap, a military investigation and a bombshell revelation before a bent hammer points straight to the culprit.

Larger-than-life college student Robert Pfeil is gunned down in a small town; it will take two decades, a priest’s confession, and a grieving father’s persistence before investigators get the traction they need to close in on his killers.

A young mother confesses to a crime related to a hit-and-run incident a decade ago in Michigan beach town.

A cheerleader's lifeless body is discovered next to her Maine high school. And though a local pastor reveals a gruesome confidence, it will take a mother's determination, a national media appeal, and nearly 40 years to get justice for Joyce McLain.

Police in Jasper, Texas quickly connect a missing person's report and an abandoned pickup truck. And the search is on for 58-year-old Martin Byerly?a hardworking mechanic known for drinking, womanizing, and carrying a big wad of cash.
In Northern California, the battered body of 20-year-old Lora Sinner is found at a remote campsite. And though detectives soon narrow down the pool to four suspects, their stories just don't add up.
An Oklahoma couple is butchered in their own bed. And though sex tapes and racy photos lead to a nudist colony in Kansas, investigators...
A violent home invasion in Sugar Land, Texas, leaves two members of the Whitaker family wounded, and two others dead. At first,...
Atlanta-area detectives find the decomposing body of college student Carlnell Walker in the trunk of his car. They suspect the motive is...
In an affluent New Mexico oil town, family man and former US Marine Darrell Blagg is gunned down just inside his back door. And...
During a violent home invasion in San Diego, a masked intruder shoots criminal defense lawyer Tim MacNeil in the head. And though...
Police find beauty salon owner Dana Satterfield murdered in the storeroom of her South Carolina shop.
In a wealthy Dallas suburb, a boy finds his mother unconscious and tied to her four-poster bed. Texas investigators are convinced Rozanne...
In the middle of the night, a gunman kills reformed ex-gang member Aaron Iturra while asleep in his bed. Ultimately, Oregon detectives...
In California, a young woman reports her 19-year-old fiancé missing. A year later, hikers find his remains in the woods, but his case is...
When police discover 63-year-old Diana Burrow dead on her couch, authorities in her sleepy North Carolina community conclude she died...
hen 18-year-old Rose Larner vanishes without a trace, detectives in Lansing, Michigan have no evidence and no body. And though one of...
When a gunman sleighs an Alabama college student, investigators connect the dots between a mystery man in a black pickup, a confiscated...
A gunman ambushes a striving real-estate mogul in his Arkansas home, shooting the young father between the eyes at close range. When...