Monday

When a mother of two travels to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with her family, she is never seen again – and a multi-state manhunt for the perpetrator ensues.

Authorities have their hands full when a series of sexual assaults leads to murder on a popular beach in Tumon Bay, Guam.

For a price, anything’s possible. Contract killings arose out of the need to establish the perfect alibi. By hiring someone else to do the dirty work, a person can deflect guilt, at least in theory. Forensics is changing that, leading investigators from the killers to their employers.

Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their undoing.

A weekend getaway turns into a nightmare when 23-year-old Marisela Botello vanishes after a night out in Dallas. As months pass, a web of deception unravels—secrets buried, a body hidden, and those responsible fleeing across the world. But justice never stops chasing.

An 86-year-old woman is stabbed and strangled in her home, within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of canyon lake, california. Before the body is cold, another elderly woman is brutally slain. Investigators can’t find a motive, and the violence against the frail victims is so shockingly over-the-top, they fear there’s a psychopathic serial killer on the loose. While the community cowers in fear, and people move their elderly parents out of canyon lake, police race to stop the killer in time. In their investigation, they dig deep for the scanty forensic evidence, befriend potential suspects, and are appalled by a callous post-kill ritual that becomes the murderer’s trademark.

Sometimes law enforcement personnel behave the same way as the people they arrest.

Keith is known in his small community as a quiet but a highly skilled artisan who takes good care of his mother. When she becomes mysteriously ill and Keith is not heard from for three weeks, all eyes turn to Keith’s girlfriend. As detectives look deeper into the case, and further into Betty’s background, a final, brutal discovery is uncovered.

After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang. DrymanÕs verdict attracts considerable attention and the public outcry results in DrymanÕs penalty being reduced to life behind bars. After serving 18 years Dryman is paroled but disappears in 1971. In 2009, discovering that Dryman is alive and still at large, victim Clarence PellettÕs grandson Clem finally sees justice done.

Poisoners are the most devious of killers, relying on stealth or their victim’s trust in order to steal their lives. They’re the most dangerous creatures in the world: Smart assassins. And they usually don’t stop at one kill.

In Puerto Rico, a band of extremists waged a guerrilla war against the United States. Their goal, to make the island an independent nation, or die trying.

Fred and Pat live a quiet life in North Carolina. When one of them is shot and killed in a robbery on a stretch of rural highway, the crime goes unsolved for years. But an arrest in another case leads police to a letter detailing the crime – and a shocking family connection.

When a seemingly healthy infant dies suddenly…Dr. G finds herself knee deep in what could be an unsolvable case. Then, a man rushes to the hospital with stomach pains, but is discharged that same afternoon. And when he dies just two days later, his wife believes the hospital is to blame…

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.  

Millionaire frank black boards a commercial flight and disappears into thin air. The workaholic, busing magnate is never seen or heard from again. Authorities believe alan mackerley, blacks’ former business associate is the man behind the murder. But black’s body and the murder weapon are never recovered. At trial the defense raises doubts that black is even dead at all!! With no body and no murder weapon they argue the case is highly circumstantial.

Nicole Vonlee Titlow needed money desperately, so she made a deal with the wife of a 74-year-old millionaire, with eyes on the inheritance.

Over the years, Betty Lou Beets had multiple failed marriages, each of which ended in its own unique way. In 1983, she reported her fifth husband missing and tried to stage a boat accident.

Prominent Houston orthodontist Clara Harris appears to have the perfect life until jealousy and heartbreak explode into violence. In a case that captivates America, Harris runs down her husband with her Mercedes in front of witnesses, creating one of Texas’s most infamous crimes.

In the small community of Gormania WV, a young female resident, Cathy Ford, receives a mysterious phone call on February 17, 1988. She is reported missing that evening when she doesn’t return home. No one has seen Cathy since but a burnt car, blood soaked trailer and a secret affair all lead to the idea that Cathy Ford did not disappear willingly.

Andreen Mcdonald and her husband had a beautiful home and successful business they built together. But when Andreen went missing, detectives uncovered her husband’s secret love affair and realized this was much more than a missing persons case.  

In november 1986, a snowstorm rips through connecticut, leaving wife and mother helle crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot richard crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that helle had left the country to visit her sick mother. Groundbreaking forensic work and an eyewitness to a gruesome scene involving an industrial-sized woodchipper, results in a conviction that shocks a community.

He was a predator, abducting girls and young women from their own front yards in broad daylight. He was a sadist: phoning one victim’s family, taunting them, boosting then dashing their hope, and he wouldn’t stop until we stopped him.

A young woman meets a handsome man and she falls for him, but his charm soon turns into aggressive jealousy, and he wants nobody else to have her.

When a local business owner is killed inside his store, the Cumberland Gap community does not want to believe that the murder could be one of their own.

When Department of Homeland Security employee Richard Smith failed to show up for work, police discovered the murdered bodies of Smith, his mother and brother in their Escambia County , Florida home. When occult ritual items were found at the scene the local Sheriff started investigating possible links to the “Wiccan” religion and the timing of the killings with a “Blue Moon Sky”.