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When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
A 33-year-old West Virginia husband and father seemingly dies in an accidental house fire; a closer look at the scene reveals a more sinister case.
July Fourth weekend leads to tragedy for a California family; to catch a killer, detectives utilize an unorthodox technique -- analyzing bug fragments -- to help put a murderer behind bars.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978; Jim Jones has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide, but the truth is more complicated and tragic than that.
More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978; Jim Jones has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to suicide, but the truth is more complicated and tragic than that.
From 1976 to 1977, David Berkowitz terrorizes New York City under his creepy self-given moniker: the ''Son of Sam''; he is among the most infamous serial killers in American history.
In 1977, the city of New York is stalked by a seemingly faceless serial killer known as ''Son of Sam''; after his final shooting takes him to Brooklyn, a twist of fate and a little luck leads to his capture.
When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.
Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.
Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.
A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.
The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.
The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.
Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.
When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.
A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.
One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.
San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.
One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.
A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.
Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.
The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.
Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.
The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.
The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.
Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.
When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.
A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.
One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.
San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.
One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.
A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.
Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.
The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.
Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.
A family mourns the unexpected death of a beloved grandmother at Christmas, and while local police assure everyone that she was the victim of a tragic accident and that there is no foul play, some things about the scene don't add up.
When a true crime hobbyist connects a Utah Jane Doe to an Ohio missing persons case, detectives are hard-pressed to solve the decades-old murder.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
During a terrifying three-day period in late August 1990, five college students were found brutally murdered in Gainesville, Fla.; panic filled the usually sunny city as investigators searched to find the serial killer before he struck again.
Five college students were found brutally murdered in Gainesville, Fla. but it would take investigators months, and the discovery of a campsite, a screwdriver and an audio tape, before they identified who the serial killer was.
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake city home in 2002 and snatched from her bed at knifepoint by a mysterious man in the middle of the night; to the public it seemed as if she had vanished into thin air.
For nine months in 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was the most famous missing child in America; kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell, she was forced up into a hiding spot in the mountains behind her home, assaulted and forced to be his second wife.
A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.
When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.
A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.
Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.
A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.
When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.
When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.
The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.
When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.
A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.
Despite a patient's claim that the cut to his hand had been caused by a dumpster, the doctor treating the injury recognizes it as something else -- and soon becomes the chief witness in a murder case.
The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.
When prison guard Donna Payant's body is discovered at a landfill, a medical examiner uses a ``signature`` clue to link her death to a murder the same examiner investigated 10 years earlier.
When a 9-year-old girl vanishes on her way to school, the entire community helps with the search; detectives believe her mother may be involved, and a hidden fingerprint seals the case.
The investigation of a murder case in New Jersey is stalled until a similar attack occurs on a state trooper in Maine.
A young woman goes missing without leaving many clues, but the advanced technology on offer makes it possible for cat hairs and insects to help build an image of the abductor.
Blood spatter analysis and an investigation lead police to the truth when a pregnant woman is found dead in her home.
A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured in a hit-and-run accident.
A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
A 41-year-old mother of three was brutally stabbed nearly 200 times in front of her two youngest children; investigators reveal a sick and twisted motive behind the deadly rampage, and her daughter who witnessed the attack speaks for the first time.
Successful doctor and mom of two, Teresa Sievers, is found bludgeoned to death in her kitchen after returning home from a family vacation.
Aspiring cosmetologist Shannon Graves is found dismembered inside a padlocked freezer but when another woman is spotted driving her car and going into her apartment, detectives discover a chilling cover-up.
Former model, Samira Frasch, was living a life of extravagance until tragedy struck; the mother of two is found dead at the bottom of her swimming pool and both her children are missing from the home.
Mother of two Crystal McDowell vanishes as Hurricane Harvey rocks Houston; surveillance video leads investigators to her twisted killer.
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A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.
When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.
Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.
Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.
Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.
After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.
In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.