Thursday

Ohio v. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey. In the spring of 1993, two newspaper carriers driving down a rural road spotted what they thought was a doll but which turned out to be, in fact, a newborn baby's body. The coroner would determine that the baby had been born alive; but his origin was a mystery. The community called the baby Geauga's Child, after the name of the county; they made clothes for his funeral and paid for his burial. Despite dozens of leads and even a hidden camera placed at the cemetery in hopes that the child's mother would show up, no arrests were made for 25 years. Then, with modern DNA and familial genealogy techniques, the cold case was solved, identifying the boy's mother as the now middle-aged Gail Eastwood-Ritchey. Years before, as a young unmarried woman, she had delivered the baby, stillborn, and placed his body in a trash bag in a wooded area. After a four-day trial, Eastwood-Richey was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

A double homicide in hudson, wisconsin leaves a small town reeling and two young detectives with little to go on. The victims are upright citizens, shot execution style, with no apparent motive. In agatha christie-like fashion, a tantalizing array of suspects emerge but after two years, there are still no arrests. Richard walter, the famed criminal profiler, becomes intrigued by the cold case and narrows the suspect list down until only one man is left standing. And no one can believe who that person is. A combination of expert crime scene analysis, computer forensics and the perpetrator’s own pathological urge to talk… the bereaved families finally see justice served.

Over the years, Betty Lou Beets had multiple failed marriages, each of which ended in its own unique way. In 1983, she reported her fifth husband missing and tried to stage a boat accident.

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 popular pizza restaurateur Robert Baron Sr. vanishes from his business in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, detectives discover evidence of a violent attack. With no body and few answers, the investigation becomes one of the region’s most enduring mysteries before a breakthrough years later finally sheds light on his fate.

Dr. Dale Cavaness is revered in his hometown of Eldorado, Illinois, but when his 22-year-old son is slain execution-style, authorities find that the good doctor has some skeletons in the closet. Dr. Dale has had not one, but two sons die by gun shot at the same age. Is this coincidence, or is there a sinister force intent on killing off the Cavaness sons?

When a group of friends discover the corpse of small time entrepreneur Jamie Foster hidden under a blanket, police initially think they’ve caught the killers dead to rights. But when Lt. Joe Kenda digs deeper, he discovers that Foster’s business put him in close quarters with a host of unsavory characters.

One of the most intensive manhunts in the history of Texas took place over the summer of 1999 when brutal serial killer Angel Resendez Ramirez was on the loose. Riding the rails eastward and driving the vehicles of his victims back west, Resendez terrorized railroad communities all across America before finally surrendering to police.

In June 1993, a California mother of two is found strangled in her home. Was she silenced by her estranged husband? An obsessed coworker? A fledgling serial killer? Undaunted, a veteran detective uncovers evidence that brings a killer to justice.