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A maternal senior psychiatric nurse that fired a junior nurse and heroin addict causes a two-day hostage situation that resulted in the death of a person.

Although family is supposed to mean everything to those who live in the mountains of Townsend, Tennessee, a member of the large Griffin clan is discovered dead.

In 1979, 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found brutally stabbed to death in her car in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For decades, the police and her family searched for answers -- who did this and why? But the case grew cold. Thirty-nine years later, DNA evidence from the crime scene finally led to a suspect and a murder trial.

When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her abusive husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But Bill Carter pointed the finger at someone else--his son Jason. It was up to the jury to decide whom to believe.

They know as much about crime as any crime fighter, or any criminal. They’re the crime writers, and through their eyes we see murder most foul. Combining perspectives of law enforcement, felons, and journalism, crime writers provide us with as near a first-person account as possible.

A good coroner provides what’s necessary to solve a crime. A bad one can spoil an otherwise rock-solid case. Cyril wecht and henry lee, two of the country’s most respected coroners, share their cases and insights into crime solving.

The solution to the most heinous crimes often hinge on the smallest of clues. Investigators must have their eyes trained to find the full story of a murder written in a single scrap of evidence.

A real estate agent vanishes after meeting a mysterious buyer, her body found brutally slain in a rural Texas field. Decades of dead ends give way to a chilling forensic breakthrough—revealing a killer who thought he'd taken his secrets to the grave.

A special task force hunts down a deadly stalker on the loose in small-town abbotsford, british columbia – where one teenaged girl is found brutally killed and another barely alive. Turning to the latest in forensic dentistry and acoustic technology, investigators try to decipher mysterious marks left on the dead girl’s body and a series of taunting messages from the killer himself. In piecing together their puzzle – and with the life of every resident in abbotsford hanging in the balance – investigators are forced to consider that the killer may even be a member of their task force

Tourists get a little too rowdy and their beach walks turn into perp walks.

Dr. Dale Cavaness is revered in his hometown of Eldorado, Illinois, but when his 22-year-old son is slain execution-style, authorities find that the good doctor has some skeletons in the closet. Dr. Dale has had not one, but two sons die by gun shot at the same age. Is this coincidence, or is there a sinister force intent on killing off the Cavaness sons?

On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk goes to a party at the Craigflower Bridge, near Victoria, Canada. It is there where her ÔfriendsÕ swarm, burn and beat her down. When she walks away, Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski follow her, beat her again and drown her. They are arrested a week later by Saanich Police. The unfolding coverage shocks the country due to the senseless violence of the young crowd. Almost ten years later, Kelly Ellard was convicted of second-degree murder, ending one of the most tragic chapters in Canadian history.

They say that a burden shared is a burden halved, but when partners team up to commit murder, the weight of their guilt remains just as heavy. Investigators must rely on forensic science to capture partners in crime.

In the 1970’s South America faced a surge of political kidnappings and assassinations. When the killings spilled onto U.S. soil it was time for the FBI to step in.

Ramon and Lulu are living the American Dream, until one of them ends up in a shallow grave – and a man from their boxing gym is right in the middle of the murder plot.

When a routine flight turns deadly…Dr. G is faced with a gruesome challenge. Then - a woman is found dead in her home, facedown in a pool of blood. And as the autopsy unfolds, she begins to wonder if the pilot could have made a deadly mistake. And it looks like the person closest to the victim could be the chief suspect.

When Sadie Beacham didn’t receive a good night call from her boyfriend, she was alarmed. She found his front door open and blood on the floor and walls. Detectives could not locate his body, but DNA evidence pointed to someone Sadie knew well.  

In three days of savagery the picturesque town gainesville florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed.

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

In a jealous rage, 57-year-old professor George Zinkhan murders his wife, her lover and shoots other members of their amateur theatre troupe

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.

In the small town of Logan, OH., a quiet community known for its annual Washboard Festival, Summer Inman is violently abducted in a back alley behind her work. With multiple eye-witness accounts, investigators quickly zero in on three suspects. But when they refuse to cooperate, the odds of bringing Summer home alive start to look grim.

When Jade Janks discovered her beloved stepfather, Thomas Merriman, had secretly downloaded nude photos of her onto his computer, she set out to put an end to the abuse.  

A common-law couple was found guilty of the 1990 rape and murder of taunja bennett near portland, oregon. However, a letter signed with a happy face sent to a portland newspaper claimed responsibility for the murder of taunja and others. The happy face letter remained a mystery until keith jesperson was arrested on an unrelated murder charge. Investigators unraveled the truth, convicted jesperson of taunja’s murder, and freed the wrongfully convicted couple.

She appeared on the highway in the spring, a young woman, her life cut short, her past and her identity a mystery. Only by finding out who she was could we ever hope to find her killer.