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A twelve-year-old girl claimed she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She recounted what happened in such a flat, unemotional voice that police found it difficult to believe her. Fibers on her clothing would prove she was telling the truth, and help police to find her attacker.

Emergency Dispatch in Durham, North Carolina received a frantic call from a man who said his wife had fallen down the stairs; she was unconscious but still breathing. When paramedics arrived, they could do little more than pronounce the woman dead. The number and volume of bloodstains at the scene was greater than usual. It was up to forensic scientists to find out why.

The wife of a respected police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, and then a newly formed Cold Case Unit took a fresh look at the evidence. A few seconds of a 911 call enabled them to determine not only who was responsible for the victim’s death, but also the motive for her murder.

Some people do get away with murder…at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their capture.

In Langley, Virginia, a terrorist fired into rush hour traffic. The victims seemed randomly selected, but the motive appeared to be political, targeting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.

On the day before Thanksgiving, a mother discovered her ten-year-old son was missing from his school. When a child of separated parents disappears, investigators first look at the family and divorced parents often suspect each other.

A caregiver reports a natural death—until toxicology reveals a lethal dose of Visine. Investigators discover a sinister plot of financial fraud, manipulation, and slow poisoning.

An 86-year-old woman is stabbed and strangled in her home, within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of canyon lake, california. Before the body is cold, another elderly woman is brutally slain. Investigators can’t find a motive, and the violence against the frail victims is so shockingly over-the-top, they fear there’s a psychopathic serial killer on the loose. While the community cowers in fear, and people move their elderly parents out of canyon lake, police race to stop the killer in time. In their investigation, they dig deep for the scanty forensic evidence, befriend potential suspects, and are appalled by a callous post-kill ritual that becomes the murderer’s trademark.

When an affluent couple is brutally murdered a seemingly random home invasion unravels into a sinister plot of greed, deception, with Kara Lounsbury shockingly close to the family circle.

A love triangle turns lethal—ending in a masked execution that uncovers just how Shawna Nelson will go to eliminate her rival.

In 1989, residents of a close-knit apartment community in Virginia gathered for a holiday celebration. For Tammy Brannen and five-year-old daughter Melissa, Christmas was always a special time. Then…without warning, the little girl was gone.

A young Jackson, Michigan police officer investigates a missing woman and finds that her husband has just had brain surgery and is acting strangely. When the officer follows his instincts and inspects the couple’s restaurant, he finds their kitchen has a become a slaughterhouse. But who could be responsible for such atrocity?

In the aftermath of a five-alarm fire, first responders discover a lifeless body. When Kenda learns that the deadly blaze was no accident, he launches a manhunt for a pyromaniac with a fiery temper and a callous disregard for human life.

Dorothea Puente spent much of the 1980Õs providing shelter for the elderly and infirm in her Sacramento boardinghouse. It wasnÕt until the first body was found in her backyard that authorities realized Dorothea was not the sweet old woman she first appeared to be.

A series of California fires puts investigators on the hunt for a serial arsonist. After years of dogged investigation, an unpopular theory points to a disturbing culprit.