Thursday

Charities lavished gifts on Gypsy Lee Blanchard, a sympathetic young girl confined to a wheelchair. The Make-a-wish foundation sent her on trips and Habitat for Humanity built her a home. But it all came to end when her mother was found murdered and Gypsy went missing, leaving her wheelchair behind. As the murder investigation got underway the local Sheriff reported “Things aren’t exactly what they seemed to be”.

There’s never a good reason for murder, but some killers are particularly brutal—choosing their prey at random or with no apparent motive and then cunningly covering their tracks. Even so, telltale clues remain. It’s up to forensic investigators to follow the trail of scattered clues to capture these deadly killers.

The great outdoors may offer great clues to solving brutal murders. But it takes the keen eye of the forensic entomologist and botanist to decipher the clues nature provides.

Poison is the subtlest form of death, and investigators must see through unusual circumstances to bring these murders to light.

A young hairstylist vanishes on Christmas Eve after meeting a stranger online. Days later, police uncover a horrific crime in a quiet Michigan town. The chilling details leave a community in shock, exposing a dark and twisted mind hiding in plain sight.

A series of seemingly random shootings have terrorized the city of east point, georgia, just outside atlanta. Police are baffled as to the killer's motive, how he is choosing his victims and when he will strike again. Apart from leaving behind taunting messages, mysteriously signed "jack", the shooter leaves behind little evidence. And investigators are baffled as to why he always seems to be one step ahead of them. As the citizens of east point hide behind locked doors, the police use every forensic trick at their disposal to unmask this brazen killer and bring him to justice.

When boating and alcohol are mixed, police get involved.

A motel housekeeper in Oakley, Kansas, discovers the body of her co- worker, Alice Pepperl. The room lacks hard evidence to point to any one suspect, but a special coin taken from the cash registered could be all it takes. Even after a suspect confesses, the question of responsibility looms over the town.

In 1989, the entire town of Miramichi is held hostage by a monster. This troubled man with a heinous past embarks on a 7-month crime spree, including brutal beatings, rape, arson and serial murder. His victims are women, both young and old. The rampage culminates in the killing of a local priest. Finally, CanadaÕs most intensive manhunt frees the people from Allan Legere, the Monster of Miramichi.

What does it take to prove murder if the victim cannot be found? Investigators must go to extreme lengths to catch the killer when the victim is presumed dead.

In 1980 the FBI faced the largest explosive device they had ever seen. The bomb was sophisticated, carefully constructed, and designed to destroy an entire building.

Richard and Aon have a blended family and a second chance at love. When a gunman surprises one of them while getting out of the shower, the daughters of the other are immediately suspicious. But was it the spouse? Or a former business partner, who seems just a little too close to the family?

An unidentified man is found in a hotel room – dead. And each discovery Dr. G makes at autopsy…is more baffling than the last. Then - tragedy strikes a 23-year-old, during what should be the happiest week of his life. And now, his devastated fiancée is looking to Dr. G for answers.

Attorney Richard Merritt, had a last home cooked meal with his mother before he was set to report to jail for embezzlement. But when Merritt didn’t show up on time investigators found his mother dead in the living room. Merritt claimed an intruder had attacked them both and he had fled for his life.

In one violent evening, a series of bombs rocks the sleepy california city of fremont. The targets include both the chief and ex-chief of police. But as america’s leading explosive experts sift through the evidence, they discover a plan far more insidious than anyone could have imagined. Can police and forensic scientists stop the fremont bomber before he strikes again?

Neuroscientist Amy Bishop is denied tenor, and it results in deadly consequences for her co-workers.

While her 10-year-old daughter listens upstairs, failed self-help guru Derek Medina shoots his wife during an argument, then casually posts pictures of her dead body on Facebook.

The abduction and murder of teenager Carla Walker becomes one of Texas’s most infamous cold cases. Decades later, advances in forensic science finally identify Rodney McCurley as a suspect, breathing new life into a mystery that haunted Fort Worth for nearly fifty years.

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.

Kay Baker, a school teacher and mom, was found lying in her neighbor’s yard bleeding to death. Soon after discovering her body, police spotted a wounded man on the run in the woods, leading to a suspenseful chase, arrest, and a possible suspect.   

Stephen grant reported his wife, tara lynn grant, missing five days after he said she left their house in an unidentified black car. In michigan, the macomb county sheriff’s office focused on the mystery sedan, but attention soon turned to stephen himself, and a search of the family’s home revealed tara lynn’s dismembered body parts. Police tracked grant to a state park in northern michigan and arrested him in time to save him from freezing to death.

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.

A woman's ex-boyfriend hides video cameras and microphones in her home while he waits for an opportunity to seek a bloody revenge.

In a small town in Kansas, Patricia Kimmi has disappeared from her home, and residents begin a search party, but police fear she may not be found alive.

Ohio v. Erica Stefanko. In a tale of jealousy, betrayal and revenge, 25-year old Ashley Biggs, a single mom and pizza delivery driver, was murdered on a late night run for Dominos. Police arrested her former boyfriend Chad Cobb, saying he killed her over a bitter custody dispute involving their seven-year old daughter. For eight years, Cobb had refused to tell police who had helped him lure Ashley to her death, protecting his then-wife Erica Stefanko. But once he learned that Erica had become romantically involved with his best friend and that she was allegedly abusing his daughter, Cobb revealed Erica’s role in the murder.