Wednesday

The homicide of private first class soldier and young mother Karlyn Ramirez. A glimpse into the FBI's crime lab and an in-depth look at how multiple agencies uncovered a plot that spanned several states and prompted suspicions of espionage.

Interview the undercover agent who led the manhunt for journalist Amanda Lindhout's kidnapper.

A teenager is convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself.

In this episode, a crazed cat lover gets stopped by the cops and leads animal control to a grisly discovery. And, an officer laying down spike strips nearly becomes road kill. Plus, a bank robber runs from law and into the path of a speeding semi. Tv-14-v

In this episode, a swat team comes under fire leaving a veteran cop gravely wounded. Plus, a drunk driver severs a gas line and a cop gets caught in the fiery blast. And, police respond to a domestic disturbance call and end up on the receiving end of a beating. Tv-14-v

The best of most shocking: Busted in the buff is a television special event that reveals the naked truth with some of our favorite bare-bottomed bandits and partly-clad party girls. With never-before-seen footage and new, exclusive first-hand accounts this special edition includes a dozing drunk driver caught with his pants down and amateur strippers who give officers a playful peep show. Plus, cops corner a drug-crazed nudist who puts up some bare-knuckled resistance. Tv-14

Forensic botany & geology: Plants help provide oxygen and nutrients for existence. Soil is the fertilizer of life. Yet both can yield clues to the time and location of a person's death. In criminal investigations, a simple seedpod can provide the missing link by placing a suspect at a crime scene. Dirt left on shoes, tires or clothes can pinpoint a crime scene.

Wisconsin v. Todd Kendhammer. Todd Kendhammer called 911 in a panic, describing a freak accident that occurred while he was driving with his wife, Barbara, in the passenger seat. He said a metal pipe had fallen from a passing truck, piercing the windshield and fatally injuring his wife. But police were suspicious of Todd's responses in the interrogation room, when his story continued to change, and his alibi didn't check out. Forensic details from the autopsy report cast further doubt on his story. Detectives came to believe Kendhammer strangled Barbara and staged the accident to cover his crime. He was convicted of first-degree murder. The couple's two children, Jordan and Jessica, continue to believe their father is innocent. Jessica speaks in his defense in this episode.

Florida v. James Colley Jr.. In Florida in 2015, Amanda Colley was starting her life over after a contentious divorce and an ongoing custody battle with her ex-husband, James. The 36-year-old mother of two was excited about a new love interest, Lamar Douberly. Then, one summer night, she returned to a ransacked house. Lamar and two girlfriends arrived to join her as police were called. Then, gunshots rang out; glass shattered. After more shots, Amanda and her friend Lindy, a mother of three, were both dead and Rachel was injured. The gunman took off. James Colley was arrested 600 miles away and brought back to Florida to stand trial for double murder, with both Lamar and Rachel giving dramatic firsthand testimony.

After he got into the home, the assailant used an axe to kill the husband and critically injure his wife. Nothing was taken, so this wasn’t a robbery. A DNA profile from skin cells collected hundred of miles away would reveal the killer’s identity and his motive for murder.

Two suspects living in the same apartment were linked to a murder by a gun and a pair of bloodstained boots – items that belonged to the one who claimed he’d never even met the victim. Investigators hoped the manufacturing code stamped on six beer bottles would be distinctive enough to prove who was telling the truth, and who was a cold-blooded killer.

A serial bomber was on the loose in Illinois. Two churches had been bombed and one person was killed. Investigators had to stop the perpetrator before he struck again... and they hoped to find him by following a thin copper wire.

There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.

The victim had been stabbed more than a hundred times; her bedroom was blood-soaked. While her body was positioned in a suggestive way, she hadn’t been sexually assaulted. Was this a sex crime, or the random act of a man with an intense hatred of women?

Even though the victim was burned beyond recognition, police were able to create a composite sketch from his remains and identify him. But knowing who he was isn’t enough. Investigators still had to determine where he was killed and who wanted him dead.

Toxicology: While drugs can cure disease and ease pain, they can also be agents of murder. Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to uncover cases where death is not as natural as it may seem--from slow arsenic poisoning to quick cocaine overdoses.

The friends of a a Georgia father accused of murdering his ex-wife come together to prove he is innocent, while prosecutors count on his young children to testify against him.

A hunter presumed dead. Was it an accident or murder? The steamy secret that exposed the truth.

An unexpected source turns the investigation into a woman's murder upside down.

After a Midwestern insurance salesman is discovered on the floor of his office with an extra hole in his head, his wife, family, community, and church are drawn into a web of greed, infidelity, and murder.

When a wholesome family woman is gunned down outside her church after choir practice, police uncover a network of corruption and illicit sex lie just below a flawless surface.

A condominium manager finds a body left in one of her suites. But when an investigation begins, the police discover this isn’t the first victim.

Amanda Plasse’s life was taken suddenly, but the real horror comes in the form of disrespect and betrayal after her death. The quest for justice exposes disturbing actions within the community.

When a young man confessed to the rape and murder of a woman in a restaurant, police were convinced the case was solved. Eight years later, another man imprisoned for an unrelated crime, admitted HE committed the murder. But authorities viewed that admission as unfounded. They could not understand why an innocent man would confess to a crime he did not commit, and if he were innocent, why he said nothing during his eight years in prison.

When two boys are viciously attacked while fishing in a nearby pond, authorities spring into action. They suspect a group of teenage thugs, but lack solid evidence. It would take the murky waters of a fishing hole to provide clear evidence, and help authorities reel in the boy’s attackers.

The body of a young woman was found in an icy Ohio waterway. She had been strangled to death, and most of the evidence had been washed away by the rushing water. Investigators conducted a painstaking examination of the victim’s body and clothing, and discovered a tiny clue – hardly bigger than a human hair. That clue would enable police to determine where the victim had been just before she died; it would also lead them to her killer.

In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, was raped and murdered. With few leads, authorities asked Crystal’s male friends and acquaintances to provide a blood sample for DNA testing. Fifty-two of them agreed, including Ken Register, Crystal’s best friend. When his DNA matched semen at the crime scene, he couldn’t believe it. Neither could his mother, his girlfriend – and even Crystal’s mother. Ken had a solid alibi for the night of the murder, and he asked a question no one could answer: “If I had killed her, why would I have given blood?”

Linda is a teacher that has attempted to help Todd for years, but now at 17-years-old, Todd begins to have feelings for her that turn into an obsession.