Friday

A young man goes missing, and his live in girlfriend reveals she had last seen him after the two had an argument concerning money. Soon after, a human torso is found; the arms, legs and head had been removed. Toxicology testing showed evidence of a potentially fatal amount of morphine present in the body. Investigators question the girlfriend, and find she had just taken out a $150,000 life insurance policy on her boyfriend.

A stranger snatched an eight-year-old girl as she played in her Tucson, Arizona neighborhood. Hundreds of citizens and police officers fanned out across the region, hoping to find some trace of the young girl or her abductor.

Shirley Russell was determined enough to reach the rank of Captain in the United States Marine Corps. When this officer turned up missing, her colleagues refused to believe she had gone AWOL. It was unclear whether Captain Shirley Russell was alive.

A man is gunned down on a Louisville sidewalk during Derby week. A few weeks later the bodies of two teenage boys are found burned and abandoned in a vacant lot. Detectives investigate a strange connection between the murders.

A retired fireman on a morning bike ride notices a burning bundle in a farmer’s field…and recognizes the smell of burning human flesh. Investigators at the scene find an unrecognizable body, a distinctive lighter, 2 pairs of latex gloves and the box they came in, paper towels and torn scraps of an office memo. State of the art forensics, dogged police work, and some extraordinary turns of events lead police to the murder scene - the medical room of a ball bearings factory, and the arrest of a former armenian mafia thug turned english family man for the brutal murder of his cruel ex-boss.

Investigators uncover a bizarre web of lies involving a conman posing as a doctor, Lisa Henning obsessed with reptilian conspiracies—leading to one of New Mexico's strangest and most chilling murder cases.

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.

While Frank and Nancy may have drifted apart in their long marriage, they are still on solid ground. But when one of them is confronted by a gunman in their driveway while the other is away, police follow a money trail stretching back several years. With so many people involved in the crime, who is actually behind it?

A businessman went to Florida to make one last deal before he retired-he never returned home to his millions. Authorities examined who was closest to him and who stood to gain from his disappearance. But this time conventional rules didn’t apply.

Many escape the poverty of India to start new lives in the United States. One turned the American dream into a nightmare. People started turning up dead in New York’s Indian community-authorities struggled to link fraud and murder to a powerful man.

In Miami, the discovery of a mutilated body sent investigators on the trail of a deadly cult. But agents found a wall of silence around the cult’s members. Potential witnesses, terrified of reprisals, refused to talk.

Money may not be the root of all evil, but for some men, a million dollars is enough to justify murder. Even men sworn to uphold the law can sometimes be tempted.