Saturday

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.

Wisconsin v. Todd Kendhammer. Todd Kendhammer called 911 in a panic, describing a freak accident that occurred while he was driving with his wife, Barbara, in the passenger seat. He said a metal pipe had fallen from a passing truck, piercing the windshield and fatally injuring his wife. But police were suspicious of Todd's responses in the interrogation room, when his story continued to change, and his alibi didn't check out. Forensic details from the autopsy report cast further doubt on his story. Detectives came to believe Kendhammer strangled Barbara and staged the accident to cover his crime. He was convicted of first-degree murder. The couple's two children, Jordan and Jessica, continue to believe their father is innocent. Jessica speaks in his defense in this episode.

Sowell grew up in a family where violence and sexual abuse were the norm but distinguished himself in the military. When his visitors complained of a stench of rotting flesh, he blamed the sausage shop next door….. But the truth was much closer to home. Revealing interrogation recordings show police unpick a mystery which leads them to a house of horrors

They appeared the perfect Christian couple. Tom and Micah Rine Pate had dated for years before marrying only for Micah to discover Tom’s serial infidelity. Micah’s deeply devout family were unaware the marriage was in tatters so when Micah went missing on a job, they had no reason to suspect Tom. What would it take to reveal the truth and what part would Thomas Pate’s father play in helping uncover what had really happened.