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A kidnapping can shatter a family, bringing terror and heartache without warning. In 1984 with the flash of a gun, an ordinary business transaction became a violent abduction. In seconds, the son of a wealthy Miami developer was gone.

Iowa v. Cristhian Rivera. When 20 year old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts went missing during her regular evening jog, her disappearance was headline news. Police had few clues until a local resident shared his garage surveillance camera which had captured a brief glimpse of Mollie running down the street and later a black car driving by. Following the lead Police moved quickly to arrest undocumented immigrant Christhian Bahena Rivera who worked at a nearby dairy farm and charged him with murder.

On september 29, 1990, the body of twenty-two year old college student, linda yalem, is discovered off a bike path in a suburb of buffalo, new york. Yalem has been raped and strangled with a garrote. Dna evidence recovered from her body allows police to link the crime to six other recent rapes in the buffalo area. But other than dna evidence police have little to go on; the murderer remains at large. Over the next sixteen years, attacks slow but do not stop. There is another rape and two more murders. Then advances in dna technology and clues culled from unsolved rape cases lead police to the unlikely killer and rapist. He’s buffalo suburbanite, altemio sanchez. Sanchez is a pillar of the community: Married, with two children, and active in church and little league.

Investigators uncover a bizarre web of lies involving a conman posing as a doctor, Lisa Henning obsessed with reptilian conspiracies—leading to one of New Mexico's strangest and most chilling murder cases.

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.

James and Doug are locked in a legal battle in Washington State over an oil deal gone wrong, both hoping to buy the other out. When one of them ends up dead, a surprising link is discovered to the seemingly unrelated disappearance of a North Dakota man.

In the quaint community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Taekwondo instructor Keith Black has disappeared without a trace. His family alerts the authorities, but a lack of evidence slows the investigation. It isn’t until years later that the truth behind Keith’s whereabouts comes to light — and with it, comes the revelation of a vicious plot, one provoked by greed and resentment.

Hard-working fast food manager Missy Berry is found dead in an idling car at a deserted intersection. Kenda discovers suspects from Missy’s past who may have wanted her dead. But a surprise twist in the investigation leads him into uncharted territory.

Multiple murders in rural communities are always a shocking occurrence, but never more so than in Livingston County, Missouri in the late 1980Õs. Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farmer and his wife, would become AmericaÕs oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

In 1980, a teen girl is brutally murdered in her Colorado home. In her brave efforts to defend herself, the victim leaves investigators a clue-her attacker’s blood. Years later, tireless investigators expose a killer that no one could have predicted.

While having a good life, Kristy Grieco soon has her life crumble around her after she receives a threatening phone call from a mysterious voice.