Wednesday

Best of season 3

A young man goes missing, and his live in girlfriend reveals she had last seen him after the two had an argument concerning money. Soon after, a human torso is found; the arms, legs and head had been removed. Toxicology testing showed evidence of a potentially fatal amount of morphine present in the body. Investigators question the girlfriend, and find she had just taken out a $150,000 life insurance policy on her boyfriend.

Blood was found on the ground in front of an abandoned vehicle that police learn was driven by a college woman. The victim’s body was found in a neighborhood away from the vehicle. Tire impressions are taken, as well as other evidence. Investigators receive a tip about a man with a history of impersonating police officers. Investigators take tire samples of the man’s car, and find blood matching that of the dead woman. Dna samples from the man also match those found in the victim.

Two men are found dead, beaten to death in the bar where they work. They had both sustained multiple blows to the head. A safe from the bar was missing, as well as the money from a cigarette machine that had been pried open. A local television station received an anonymous letter about the murders, though no fingerprints are obtained from it. Witnesses tell police of a man who frequents the bar, and investigators arrest him on unrelated charges. A search of his home and vehicle turn up several objects, including a tire iron, which lab tests conclude was the same object used to pry open the cigarette machine. Handwriting analysis also links the man to the letter. He is sentenced to consecutive life terms for the murders.

When the bodies of two college sweethearts are found on the side of a Washington highway, it takes another gruesome murder, one lone fingerprint and four long years of investigating to uncover the murderer is someone already convicted of abduction and rape.

Texas officers respond to what looks like a murder-suicide between a mother and her teenage son. Forensic testing of gunshot residue, body temperatures, and toxicology will decide whether this was a family tragedy or a staged scene.

When boating and alcohol are mixed, police get involved.

A family vacation turns tragic when a beloved grandfather suddenly collapses. And things get complicated when his family objects to an autopsy. And then, a seemingly healthy woman dies without warning. Now it’s up to Dr. G to put the pieces of a very unusual puzzle together.

The crime scene was especially violent: A husband and wife had been shot to death in their bedroom. At first, investigators thought their 16-year-old daughter was lucky to have escaped unharmed... but after a while, they wondered if the reason she was alive had more to do with careful planning than good fortune.

A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn’t match any of the suspects and, after the initial investigation, the case went cold for ten years. Then a witness who’d been silent for more than a decade decided to do the right thing.

When two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered, police wondered if they were victims of a hate crime; the women lived together and were politically active, outspoken advocates of gay rights. But the motive turned out to be something age-old, something with which investigators were all too familiar: greed, fueled by obsession.

A human skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands and, when investigators learned she’d been dead for 18 months, they knew it would be difficult to find out who she was, much less who killed her. A forensic anthropologist was able to determine the victim’s race, age and height, but it would take an inventive computer consultant to give her a face and a name.

A woman is rushed to the hospital due to a massive seizure that caused her heart to stop beating. Once stabilized, doctors are mystified, as the seizure has left the woman paralyzed and unable to speak. The woman’s husband, who regularly visited his wife, attracted the suspicions of the woman’s nurse. Those suspicions were realized after a doctor ordered several tests of the woman, one finding six times the lethal amount of arsenic in the woman’s system. Upon questioning, the woman’s husband, who had recently increased the amount of life insurance he had on his wife, admitted to poisoning her.

In Pennsylvania, an inmate escaped with the help of his female accomplice. Following a trail of fraudulent credit card receipts and deaths, authorities track the pair, but always find themselves one step behind.

A Chicago street gang thought they had figured out how to kidnap people for ransom again and again, and never get caught. But their one mistake was they underestimated the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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.

After a body is found in a ditch, police link it to a missing father who lives nearby. With no clear crime scene, investigators scour his home and the roadway, using trace evidence and creative forensic tests to reconstruct what happened.

Applebee's waitress Rachel Wade, 19, stabs 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann to death in a vicious teen-girl cat fight over shared bad boy boyfriend Josh Camacho.

Submissive 'good wife' Mary Winkler takes fate into her own hands, before fleeing the scene for a day at the beach with her children.

When the small community of Noel, Missouri discovered their bank was robbed, they’re shocked. When the bank president turned up missing, they’re outraged. And when clues began to surface the facts were more terrible than anyone could have guessed.

Nicholas Brophy is excited to start his senior year of high school in Thompson Manitoba. But, after going out to visit a friend late on a school night, he never returns. What starts as a missing person’s case evolves as investigators connect the night of Nicholas’s disappearance to gang activity in the area.

29-year-old Chris Devoy is shot in cold blood outside a neighborhood bar. Faced with a trio of suspects, Kenda trusts his gut and makes a controversial decision. The case hits a dead end, but Kenda gets an unexpected tip that proves his instincts right.

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 1990, the murders of six women put San Diego investigators on the trail of a vicious serial killer. As all suspects come up clear, reports of a man loitering outside a health club bring the case to a shocking conclusion.

While having a good life, Kristy Grieco soon has her life crumble around her after she receives a threatening phone call from a mysterious voice.

When a respected Sheriff of Cleveland, Okla., is mysteriously gunned down in the middle of the night, law enforcement is determined to find justice.

In this episode, a man soaks his ex-girlfriend with gasoline and threatens to light her on fire. Plus, a 300 pound ex-con beats a fellow pizza patron senseless. And, a kidnapper drops his own child into the path of a speeding cruiser. Tv-14-lv