Thursday

Over the course of two decades, history repeated itself as 'black widower' Robert Spangler strove to free himself from marriage and children.

Nicole Vonlee Titlow needed money desperately, so she made a deal with the wife of a 74-year-old millionaire, with eyes on the inheritance.

When mother-of-four Monique Baugh is kidnapped and murdered, detectives uncover an astonishing murder-for-hire conspiracy fuelled by jealousy and revenge. The sprawling investigation exposes multiple suspects and culminates in one of Minnesota’s most dramatic criminal prosecutions.

Eighteen-year-old Taylor Van Diest is on her way to meet friends and go trick-or-treating when she is assaulted and left for dead. She is discovered by her mother and friends and succumbs to her injuries the following day. Now investigators in Armstrong, B.C. must work tirelessly to bring her killer to justice and restore a sense of peace to the fractured community.

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.

Dorothea Puente spent much of the 1980Õs providing shelter for the elderly and infirm in her Sacramento boardinghouse. It wasnÕt until the first body was found in her backyard that authorities realized Dorothea was not the sweet old woman she first appeared to be.

The sun set on the Wild West long ago, but some people refused to notice. Claude Dallas was one of them. A wily trapper, Dallas typified the rugged individualism that forged this country. He went too far when he killed two game wardens in 1981.

Sarah begins dating a young pastor who she thinks is good looking, but she soon discovers he has a hidden life that will shock her and her family.