Wednesday

Fifteen-year-old Gabbiee Swainson disappears from her home in the middle of the night. For months, her family, volunteers and investigators search tirelessly for answers, pursuing convicted predator Freddie Grant and uncovering a case that becomes one of South Carolina’s most heartbreaking murder investigations.

Outside the small town of Verdigre, Nebraska, a domestic altercation ends in death. Frances Thompson claims to have killed Dean Frank in self-defense, but as investigators dig deeper, they’re not so sure.

Housewife Elsie Jennes is found dead in the basement of her burning home. Lt Joe Kenda has no leads until Elsie’s son, William, turns up in a police station over 50 miles away, equipped with a suitcase, a pet golden retriever, and a bizarre story to tell.

A weeklong crime spree began with the murder of a young woman, found naked, stabbed and strangled in the closet of an abandoned apartment in London, Ontario. Then, a Toronto man was found murdered in a parking garage, bludgeoned to death with a pipe. Now on the run and headed into rural Ontario, Peter John Peters embarked on a desperate journey of abduction, rape, and robbery in an attempt to fuel his escape. It is the skill of five police services that bring this man to a halt near Sault Ste. Marie, ending his reign of terror over Ontario.

Soon after Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, an 18-year-old freshman is found shot to death in the woods behind campus. Detectives take a hard look at several suspects, but thirty years go by before a stunning confession cracks the case.