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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.  

Attorney Richard Merritt, had a last home cooked meal with his mother before he was set to report to jail for embezzlement. But when Merritt didn’t show up on time investigators found his mother dead in the living room. Merritt claimed an intruder had attacked them both and he had fled for his life.

Police told Dalia her husband was dead, but there would be surprises. Was she a mastermind or pawn?

The FBI gets involved when a Virginia man's wife and son are kidnapped while vacationing in the Philippines, with a terrorist group demanding millions in ransom.

Against all odds, a young woman is found alive after an attack on her and a friend near Corpus Christi, Texas.

After finding his wife and two children dead, a former Indiana state trooper spends 13 years trying to clear his name.

When the wife of a famous New Orleans sportscaster is shot in the face point blank, the killing looks random, but the play-by-play gets more scandalous by the hour.

When a congregant is found in the church office bleeding from gunshot wounds to the head, police question the handsome new pastor who leads the investigation to an ungodly discovery.

Friends and family are bewildered when ex-cop and private investigator Taylor Wright disappears without a trace.

In 1995, the body of a Chicago woman is found dumped on a Wisconsin highway. Was she the victim of a lover’s spat turned deadly? Did she run afoul of local criminals? Investigators uncover the shocking truth behind the victim's tragic end.

A man is found shot to death in his home, and his ex-wife has a perfect alibi: She was camping with her boyfriend in a state park, 150 miles away. Determining time of death becomes critically important, and in order to do so, investigators need to know when the victim ate his last meal. Their question is answered by an endocrinologist, a forensic botanist, and a short-order cook.

A union official was executed in his home not long after a strike by the union membership. Neither his wife, who was sleeping in the adjacent bedroom, nor anyone in the neighborhood heard any gunshots. It would take a forensic sound test, an electron microscope, and a nightgown to explain why.

A man tells police he shot an intruder who had attacked and murdered his wife. The husband paints a tragic picture of harassment, stalking and revenge, and is dubbed a hero for his valiant attempt to save his wife. Four years later, new forensic evidence leads police to re-examine the motives of this so-called “hero.”

A man accused of killing his estranged wife insisted she had committed suicide. Investigators said it was murder – that it was physically impossible for the woman to have shot herself. The crime scene evidence was interpreted differently by the defense and prosecution. It was up to the jury to decide if the woman killed herself or was the victim of a cold-blooded murder.

Co-lead investigator in the Steven Avery case Tom Fassbender discusses the case and allegations investigators coerced Avery's nephew, Brendan Dassey, into making a false confession.