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Following her divorce, a woman buys a new home that needs work and hopes that a handyman can fix it up, she ends up getting more than she bargained for.

The bodies of Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Placker are found filled with bullets in Weleetka, Okla., causing the community to be in a state of shock and panic.

In this episode we meet some very dumb criminals including one fugitive being chased by police who runs out of gas and tries to push his truck to freedom. Also, a thief dips his fingers into a cash collection at a hospital chapel. Then, when a soft-spoken robber can’t scare a shop owner into giving up some dough, he begs for it. Tv-pg-l

In this episode, a man hits his sister-in-law with the broad side of a machete, then gets broadsided by a village of vigilantes looking to give him a taste of his own medicine. And, a gas station attendant fights off a knife-wielding robber and nearly losses an eye in the struggle. Plus, a man with a rifle enters a pawn shop demanding the store’s purse, but only ends up with a good hit on the head and seven years in prison. Tv-14-v

For the forensic entomologist, the insects that nest in dead bodies are like tiny witnesses to a crime. By studying their behavior, scientists learn everything from when a murder was committed to the weapon used in a stabbing death.

Photography has long been a vital tool in homicide investigations. A single image captures enough information to identify a suspect, and to preserve a vital clue long after a witness’ memory fades.

When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall. In three such cases, the families of the killers, as well as their communities, become the victims of violent crime.

Yingying Zhang, a scholar with a bright future, went missing after entering a mysterious car. What investigators uncover stuns her community and points to an unimaginable crime.

Four brutal murders in one bloody weekend devastate the small town of barrie, ontario. The prime suspects, three violent, escaped convicts, are on the loose. But while police conduct a massive manhunt, they begin to discover that the evidence isn’t adding up. As the frightened city demands answers, detectives and forensic scientists find themselves in a desperate race to find those responsible – before they can kill again.

When the cops are called in amusement parks, the fun is over for everyone.

Dr. G takes us through the most surprising results of some shocking autopsies.

The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away. Another victim was found in that same canal a year later; this time, the perpetrator had been careless. The shoe prints found at the scene would lead police to the most unlikely of killers.

A behavioral profile is helpful in a murder investigation, but it's not a road map to the killer. One such profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. They might not have made an arrest, had it not been for a DNA picture of the suspect, painted by a molecular biologist.

An obstetrician returned home from the hospital and found his wife on the floor of the bathroom; she was covered with blood, not breathing. He tried unsuccessfully to revive her, staining his clothes with her blood in the process, and then he called 911. His version of events was not supported by the blood spatter evidence, and investigators had to determine why.

A Modesto, California teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she’d simply run away… until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.

Philadelphia’s vidocq society, named after an 18th century french detective, is one of the world’s most unusual crime-solving organizations. These prominent sleuths solve a murder case from a missing shoe, and successfully prove homicide without a body.

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.

In the 1970’s and ‘80s, people went to Alaska looking for a fresh start, to reinvent themselves, or to disappear for a while. Some of those disappearances weren’t by choice.

When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered buried on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspects to investigate - her ex- husband from whom Taylor stole $100,000, her new live-in girlfriend Casandra, or her best friend Ashley. A locked cell phone held the clues.

After the owner of a private school for asian students vanishes from his driveway, police scramble to find him. The search grows desperate as time begins to run out on the diabetic man who is desperately in need of his medication. Investigators soon have their answer – he has been kidnapped. Now, can they save him before it is too late?

Nicole Abusharif, 26, murders her partner Rebecca Klein for the insurance money, then leaves her body in the boot of her car for a night of drinking with her young lover, Rose.

Law student Adrienne Hickson fatally stabs her boyfriend Shawn Washington with the knife for her birthday cake when he helps his friends move instead of spending the day with her.

When Sara Maynard, her mother Tina Herrmann and family friend Stephanie Sprang disappear from rural Ohio, investigators uncover one of the state’s most disturbing murder cases. The search for answers leads detectives to Matthew Hoffman and a chilling crime that devastates an entire community.

On the edge of the Rocky Mountains, near the small town of Gunnison, Colorado, Jake Millison has gone missing. His family isn’t too concerned with his whereabouts, claiming he’s run off before, but Jake’s loyal friends know better

After a twenty year old recovering drug addict is found strangled in the backseat of her own car, an autopsy reveals an unusual sexual clue. While on the case, Lt Joe Kenda pursues the killer through the seedy side of Colorado Springs and sort through the endless suspicious characters in Vicki’s past. When Kenda finally comes face to face with Vicki’s killer, will he be able to put the violent sociopath away for good?

On December 11, 1987 a hard luck child living in a group home in Ontario was reported missing when she failed to return home from school. Trina Campbell had been known to run away on occasion but, this time she had been abducted by a convicted rapist. With the help of the suspectÕs sister and brother-in-law, authorities begin a surveillance mission that would take them across three provinces and lead them directly to where TrinaÕs remains were hidden.

A mild-mannered grandmother accuses her boyfriend of the murder of a local woman. Five years later, someone else claims responsibility for the crime and the murders of six other women.