Saturday

Michigan v. Kemia Hassel. New Year’s Eve and a seemingly random murder, in the small town of Benton Harbor , on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Police body cam video captured the heartbroken cries of young Army Sergeant Kemia Hessel as she cradled her handsome, dying young husband in her arms, as he was loaded into an ambulance. But despite the happy outward appearance of the attractive young military couple, investigators soon accused Kemia of directing a murder-for-hire plot with the help of a lover she met while deployed in Korea. Her boyfriend quickly confessed and in a dramatic, videotaped jail house phone call, laid out the murder plot to the victim’s father. Kemia at first denied involvement and despite admissions in a lie detector exam, strongly defended her innocence, claiming her comments to police came from exhaustion and grief. She pointed the finger of blame at her jealous boyfriend who she said acted alone.

High profile politician Kathy Augustine married nurse Chaz Higgs after a whirlwind romance. They were an unlikely match: she was wildly ambitious, while he hated politics. When their marriage hit the rocks, Chaz decided to use his medical training to commit an undetectable crime.

Denise Williams was devastated when her husband Mike disappeared on a duck hunting trip. He was feared drowned, perhaps even eaten by alligators. But Mike’s mother Cheryl didn’t buy it, and after years of relentless campaigning, she finally uncovered the devastating truth about her son’s death.