Friday

When carefree restaurant worker Donald Ott is found shot to death on Christmas Day, friends tell police he didn’t have an enemy in the world. But when Lt. Joe Kenda speaks with family, he learns of a relative with a long criminal history who might hold the key to the mystery.

In the winter of 1968, the prairie city of Saskatoon is ravaged by a string of savage rapes. A few months later, fears are bolstered when a young nurse is found raped and murdered in an alley near her home. Police attention is brought to a young man named David Milgaard - the evidence on him is thin, but the court finds him guilty. After spending nearly 20 years in prison, David continues to plead his innocence. Through the undying faith of his mother, the real killer is slowly discovered to be a man named Larry Fisher. Approaching the turn of the century new DNA technologies finally exonerate David and plant the real killer, Larry Fisher, behind bars for life.

A Maine father of four is found shot to death after going out for a beer. Is he the victim of a family squabble? Did he run afoul of local crooks? Years later, an unrelated cold case and a guilty conscience help bring the killer to justice.

When police reveal that a slew of murders are the work of a serial killer, a 36-year-old woman believes the killer could be the man who is stalking her.