Orange County flight attendant Jane Carver is shot in the face in broad daylight. The case goes cold for months until a similar shooting occurs with the same M.O., leading investigators to a startling link that points a gruesome tale of murder for hire
A woman goes out on a date and never returns home in the premiere of this documentary series about unsolved murder cases.
Employees at a security company receive a puzzling call from their boss; they learn that he has been shot and died.
In 1974, Barbara Lloyd is stabbed to death in her Buffalo, NY home while her children are sound asleep. Police immediately question, how could they have slept through such a brutal murder? Could it be that her killer is someone they knew and loved?
A woman's body is found in the Chesapeake Bay, and it takes investigators four years to identify a suspect.
Bill Hassler returns home to find his high school sweetheart, Susan Schwarz, naked and shot three times.
When Carla Larson leaves work to grab lunch, she never returns. The all-American wife and mother is discovered naked and strangled to death in a nearby swamp. The investigation stalls...until a random love triangle provides a clue to finding her killer.
Sharon Bloom vanishes after leaving work to go out for lunch; her body is discovered 10 days later in a cornfield.
The 1980 stabbing death of a Colorado teenager is investigated.
Renee heads home from the gym on a cold, rainy Halloween; her favorite night of the year. The next day, she's found strangled to death on her bathroom floor. Police struggle to identify a killer. Could Renee be a victim of a 'trick or treat' gone bad?
Kacy Kay Ray leaves her parents' home after celebrating Christmas and vanishes. Days later, her frozen body is found in a field bludgeoned and stabbed, the victim of a gruesome rape. Will police pin the crime on the correct murderer?
A woman is killed while showing her high-end home to a prospective buyer, and detectives try to find the culprit before he attacks again.
A missing woman's body is found in the trunk of her car two weeks after her disappearance.
A man is convicted of murdering his mother-in-law, but his wife conducts her own investigation in hopes of proving his innocence.
Children playing along the shore of the Wisconsin River come across garbage bags containing body parts.
A dairy farmer and his wife are killed in Enderby, B.C.
Investigating a cold case involving the murder of an elderly woman.
The disappearance of an Anchorage nurse is investigated.
A 15-year-old cold case involving the arson murder of a young surfer is reopened.
A beautiful young violinist is murdered at the venerable Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan and the story becomes an international scandal. Police interview everyone behind the scenes and the search is on for the real "Phantom of the Opera".
With a thriving business and a baby on the way, a Florida couple is strangled to death in their home. Suspicions about drug smuggling and an aviation deal gone wrong lead detectives to Belize, but are they looking in the right direction?
Fourteen-year-old Karen Slattery is brutally stabbed and raped while babysitting in South Florida's upscale Delray Beach. Police follow up on dozens of tips but the case goes cold. That is until a nearly identical crime strikes terror in nearby Boca Raton.
A woman's body is dumped alongside a road near Tampa, Florida. And within a year, the bodies of two more women are found at the side of the road. Detectives fear a serial predator is on the loose, but the search for the killer will take years.
In Boston, 18-year-old Amy Roman is found slaughtered in her South End apartment. Police believe the victim knew her assailant. But when the case goes cold, her determined family undertakes an investigation of their own.
A pillar of the Haitian community in Spring Valley, New York, is gunned down in his driveway, and the suspects include the victim's terminally ill wealthy second wife, his alleged mistress, and her gun-toting ex-husband.
When John and Nancy Bosco are shot at close range in their Bigfork, Montana home, the search is on for a cold-blooded killer. But with few clues and no suspects the case stalls. And John's mother eventually turns to an unorthodox source for help.
Bob Henry is gunned down in broad daylight outside the Tacoma, Washington warehouse where he works. The execution-style murder looks like a professional hit. But to solve the crime, police need to find the murder weapon.
Kathleen Smith is bludgeoned to death and her Tempe, Arizona home is then set on fire. Investigators have two suspects but no hard evidence to tie either to the murder. And it will take 15 years before a jailhouse tip finally leads cops to the killer.
A glamorous flight attendant disappears and the story makes headlines. An intense search reveals few clues. But a graveside discovery eventually forces police to take a second look at some already familiar faces.
When a work crew uncovers a woman’s skull on a stretch of Florida highway, investigators try to determine who she is and find her killer. But it will take a bizarre discovery over a thousand miles away before the grizzly truth is finally revealed.
Single mother Donna Kitowski heads to a Las Vegas supermarket late at night but never returns.
When Cathy Lamb is brutally murdered in her Palm Beach, Florida home, the only witnesses are her three blood-soaked dogs. The gruesome scene baffles detectives. And with no suspects and no murder weapon, they have only their suspicions to go on.
During a slumber party, a man appears at 12-year-old Polly Klaas's bedroom door and abducts her at knife point.
The rape and murder of a 19-year-old journalism student in her bed is the latest in a string of unsolved homicides in a college town.
Investigators believe a serial robber, rapist, and murderer is terrorizing cities up and down the west coast. And as the death toll rises, police jurisdictions in three states join the hunt for the ‘I-5 Killer.’
A single mother is murdered in Michigan and the police search for a man known only as "B."
Five people who were abducted at a fast-food restaurant are murdered execution-style in Kilgore, Texas.
A young woman is randomly gunned down in a Maryland suburb and it takes 25 years to find the killer.
The killer of a 17-year-old Florida girl is finally found.
A mother dies from cyanide poisoning and the investigation unravels a shocking story.
A popular college student is brutally stabbed to death during her first-ever night shift at a convenience store in Great Falls, Montana. And it will take a decade before an informant comes forward with a story that leads the cops to her killer.
The murder of a pregnant 23-year-old Iowa woman is investigated.
The investigation into who killed an African American teen girl in Cleveland stalls until, decades later, a lucky break points to a suspect.
The investigation into the murder of a 14-year-old girl, who was brutally beaten and set on fire.
The investigation into the murder of a teacher in her Cleveland area home goes cold until investigators learn that a prison inmate claimed to have killed her while talking to his cellmate.
The disappearance of a young woman from an Oregon parking lot is investigated.
The discovery of a woman's body at an Orlando park is investigated.
A man is suspected of murdering his pregnant wife due to a $300,000 life insurance policy.
The investigation into a woman's murder requires 15 years, a deck of playing cards and a lucky break before it can be solved.
Debra Dill's bludgeoned body is discovered next to her car on a September morning in 1973, and it will take nearly two decades to put her killer behind bars.
When the naked blood-soaked body of a young woman is found on the floor of her Orlando apartment, it's up to investigators to find her killer before he strikes again.
When 18-year-old Lisa Monza is murdered in San Lorenzo, Calif., investigators look for a connection to other unsolved murders in the area.
After a respected widow is beaten to death in her Salt Lake City home, investigators suspect she knew her killer, but it will take 20 years before a set of children's fingerprints can put him at the scene of the crime.
A high school senior is murdered in her family's Minnesota farmhouse, but the case soon goes cold; years later, a fresh set of eyes spots an overlooked clue, but cold case detectives will need more to convict the killer.
A New Hampshire man is shot dead through his screen door; investigators are stumped until they uncover a seething grudge and a culprit closer to home than anyone could have imagined.
In southern Louisiana, a task force forms to hunt for a serial killer following a series of deadly home invasions.
The mutilated body of 17-year-old Lori Billingsley is found in a ditch on the outskirts of town, pointing to a sadistic killer on the loose in Oregon, but Billingsley's case goes cold, and it's up to her sister to pursue justice.