Tuesday

Identifying burned remains: It's difficult to have a murder investigation without a body, and burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence. But what happens when the charred remains are found, unrecognizable, seemingly impossible to identify? Dr. John verano and dr. Doug owsley of the smithsonian have faced these challenges, identifying the burned remains of two american journalists found in guatemala seven years after their reported disappearance. It seems as though fire can unveil lies, as well as conceal truths.

In the 1980’s the federal penitentiary in Atlanta held some of the country’s most notorious prisoners. Castro called them undesirables. The U.S. government called them detainees. In 1987 they staged a bloody revolt.

In Louisiana, a brutal killer turned a rural area into his personal hunting ground. He preyed on the defenseless, the weak and the elderly.

Iowa v. Cristhian Rivera. When 20 year old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts went missing during her regular evening jog, her disappearance was headline news. Police had few clues until a local resident shared his garage surveillance camera which had captured a brief glimpse of Mollie running down the street and later a black car driving by. Following the lead Police moved quickly to arrest undocumented immigrant Christhian Bahena Rivera who worked at a nearby dairy farm and charged him with murder.

In suburban Boston, college students find a teenage boy dead in the street. Bloodstain experts rule out a hit-and-run, and his trail from North Carolina forces detectives to test a bizarre, almost impossible explanation for how he died.

When an affluent couple is brutally murdered a seemingly random home invasion unravels into a sinister plot of greed, deception, with Kara Lounsbury shockingly close to the family circle.

A love triangle turns lethal—ending in a masked execution that uncovers just how Shawna Nelson will go to eliminate her rival.

When questionable abuse allegations are proven false, Greg and Diana divorce. Shortly after, one of them is contacted by a private investigator and lured out to a dirt road. Is the sniper in the bushes there to commit a murder, or not?

Fredrick Banks is an eccentric senior who loves to show off his vintage cars and wallet stuffed with cash. When he is found slain in his garage, authorities hunt for the mysterious stranger who has recently been spotted lurking in town. And it turns out, the drifter has a lot to hide.

Two hunters discover a blood-drenched car on a remote mountain road, its owner riddled with buckshot. When Lt. Joe Kenda learns the car was reported stolen the day before, he follows its trail to a group of unlikely suspects, and follows them down a dark path of deception, lust and revenge.

When emergency services arrived at the office of respected neurologist richard boggs following the report of a patient's death, they had their suspicions regarding the circumstances, but an autopsy found that the man died of natural causes. A few months later, after a million-dollar payout on the man's life insurance, a diligent insurance agent noticed an irregularity that ultimately caused california authorities to get to the bottom of the twisted case. In the end, three men, including the “dead” patient, were found guilty of murdering an innocent man for insurance money.

In 1996, two women are murdered in the same Texas apartment complex. Authorities follow every lead, but the case goes cold. Three years later, DNA evidence and a seemingly unrelated crime lead authorities to the sadistic "Bathtub Killer."