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Florida v. Grant Amato. The Amatos were a close knit, middle class family with three professional sons, who enjoyed Florida Gators football games together. So it was a shock when Margaret and Chad Amato and their youngest son Cody were found dead, shot execution-style in their suburban Seminole Florida home. Suspicion quickly turned to middle son Grant, a trained nurse, who had quarrelled with his family over money he had stolen from them to pay for the attentions of a Buglarian sex model on a pay-per-view website. Grant’s high powered public defense team argued that despite the horrific bloody scene there was no blood found on their client and no forensic evidence of any kind linking him to the murders. The drama in the courtroom heightened as Grant’s sole surviving brother, Jason Amato, took the stand.

When lovers turn on each other, or marriages fail, some ruthless spouses find a grisly way to gain an uncontested divorce – with no paperwork. When murder tears lovers apart, forensic science must put piece together the mystery to catch the killer.

These cases took a decade or more to solve. There’s no statute of limitations on murder. As a case turns cold, the clues become scarce, investigators must rely on science to close cold cases.

Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When murder becomes a family affair, investigators must turn to forensics to uncover family plots.

An 18-year-old vanishes from an Aruba vacation, last seen leaving a nightclub with three men. Despite global headlines, endless searches, and shifting stories, she’s never found. Years later, a shocking confession finally reveals the truth—too late for justice.

A vivacious teenage girl is found brutally stabbed to death in her car in a small pennsylvania city. The motive is elusive; she wasn’t sexually assaulted, and she was happy and popular. But as police look closer, they discover she was involved in a shocking love triangle that breaks all the rules. When the suspects’ stories overlap and raise more questions than they answer, investigators turn to forensics to separate the lies from the startling truth. One tenacious detective goes to surprising lengths to obtain that evidence, and in the end, in a dramatic twist, it’s the victim herself who gives police what they need.

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

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, young mothers become prey for a sexual sadist who stalks them, using homemade "tire-poppers" to force them off the

In 1995, terror descends upon the Bible belt community of Abbotsford, BC. An attack on two teenage girls leaves one dead and starts a 7-month siege of torment. The killer hides, phoning and taunting both police and community with details of his horrific crimes. Behind the voice is Terry Driver, a devote husband and father with a terrifying double life. His crimes change the community forever.

Some people murder for love. But these killers did it for the money. When greed is the motive, investigators must make every clue pay off.

When the streets of New York flooded with crack cocaine in the 1980’s a wave of violence threatened to drown the city. Colombian cartels brought the coke in and ran their operations with an iron fist.

Christine and Jo Ann are neighbours caught up in a bitter feud. When one of them is gunned down in the driveway of her own home, the vicious crime is caught on home surveillance video. But there's no way to identify the shooter – until he brags to one too many people about his crime.

At the District 9 Morgue in Orlando, FL, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia sees first hand how people die every day. But of all the killers out there, there’s one in particular that affects women everywhere. And these cases stand out in her mind as some of the most devastating and alarming she’s ever seen.

James Ray, a prominent attorney, lived in an upscale home with his girlfriend Angela Bledsoe, a successful businesswoman. But when Angela didn’t show up at the office , police found her dead on the kitchen floor . Ray and his BMW were nowhere to be found.  

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?

After a night of drinking, 45-year-old Ana Trujillo bludgeons her on-again-off-again lover Stefan Andersson to death with a blue suede stiletto shoe.

Former Deputy Sheriff of Colbert, Georgia, Tracy Fortson shoots her boyfriend Douglas Benton as he sleeps, then abandons his body in a cement-filled trough in the woods.

When Taylor Pomaski disappears after a party, her loved ones fear the worst. Detectives uncover allegations of domestic abuse, criminal activity and coercive control, exposing a troubling relationship at the centre of a murder investigation that grips Texas.

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

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.  

American atheist madalyn murray o'hair and her family vanished in august 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency. When the irs started looking for some of the organization’s missing money, they instead found a former employee with the motive to commit murder. Fellow atheist david waters was convicted and the complex case was finally put to rest.

On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, a Judge and his politician wife are murdered in their home. The killer left few clues. It looked like a professional hit, and the investigation led nowhere. But the FBI refused to give up.

When an Idaho hairdresser cuts a truck driver's hair, she is unaware of the two-year long nightmare that she puts herself in, which comes to a shocking end.

People realize seclusion doesn't guarantee their safety when a 62-year-old woman is found tortured and brutally murdered in her home on Thanksgiving.

Florida v. Russell Holbrook. The quiet community of Crestview, Florida was shaken following the vicious murder of beautiful 33 year old nurse Melissa Howard, described as a caring angel, found with her throat slashed in her own living room. Friends were immediately suspicious of Melissa’s ex-husband who had just lost a nasty custody battle over their son Taylor but he had a strong alibi. The case remained unsolved for ten years, until Florida State Agent Detective Meaghan Palumbo, newly assigned to the homicide squad, took a personal interest in the cold case. Using modern day forensics, Palumbo re-tested Melissa’s sweatshirt preserved all those years and found clues to lead them to the DNA of her ex-husband’s best friend, Russell Holbrook, and a dramatic trial as witnesses recounted the true story of Melissa’s last days.