Saturday

Just outside the sleepy town of Athens, WI., Kenneth Kunz returns to his family farm to find four of his family members murdered and one missing.

The chief of police in Sparta, MI leads an investigation into what happened to his family friend and babysitter, Julia Dawson. Julia is reported missing when she doesn't come from Christmas shopping, and her body is found beneath a snowbank, weeks later. While evidence mounts against one suspect, it would take more than three years before investigators are able to make an arrest.

Some people will let nothing stand between them and their goals. In their tortured minds, raw desire replaces all reason, and homicide becomes a convenient means to an end. Blinded by love, torn by jealousy, or hungry for power, the obsessive murderer justifies his crimes and is capable of almost anything. While forensic investigators follow the physical evidence, psychologists study the muddled workings of the criminal mind.

Sometimes the scales of justice are balanced by just a few milligrams of evidence – a couple of fibers, a tooth filling, or a smudge on a piece of tape. The biggest cases are often solved by the smallest clues.

George orwell’s concept of big brother remains in the realm of fiction. But as technology becomes more a part of our lives, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to make a move without leaving behind an electronic trace. Cell phones, surveillance cameras, and atms track virtually every move. When it comes to solving murders, this isn’t such a bad thing.

Hiding a body can be difficult; it’s sometimes easier to obscure or disguise the circumstances of the death, turning murder into suicide, or pinning the blame on someone else. The truth is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.

No matter how chaotic or how clean a crime scene appears to be, the culprit is bound to leave something telling behind. Occasionally, it’s nothing more than a fingerprint or shoe tread. Sometimes that’s all that’s needed.

When a prominent business man is killed by a bomb in his car, thirteen years pass until investigators are able to uncover a trail of secret love affairs and financial receipts to lead them to the most unassuming killer.

When a vibrant bisexual woman is found dead, her Craigslist lover points blame at the victim’s boyfriend until a tip from a hit television show reveals the true killer, leading to a chase around the world in an attempt to place them behind bars.

Just outside the sleepy town of Athens, WI., Kenneth Kunz returns to his family farm to find four of his family members murdered and one missing.

The chief of police in Sparta, MI leads an investigation into what happened to his family friend and babysitter, Julia Dawson. Julia is reported missing when she doesn't come from Christmas shopping, and her body is found beneath a snowbank, weeks later. While evidence mounts against one suspect, it would take more than three years before investigators are able to make an arrest.

When firefighter Bob Poynter was killed, there was no-one more devastated than his young wife, Chacey. But when detectives looked at her life, they discovered a web of lies….

William Walker was a firefighter and paramedic with a reputation for helping out strangers. Little wonder that debt-ridden Uloma Curry was attracted to him. Within weeks of their wedding, she was plotting to get her hands on his life insurance policy - and recruiting a team of teenagers to help her do it.

When Chris Regan started dating coworker Kelly Cochran, he knew she was married. But he had no idea of the deadly wedding day pact she had made with husband Jason. Chris had become entangled in a love triangle that would see not one, but two people lose their lives.

Amin Miah wanted a devout, homely wife to start a family with. Mahmuda Khatun wanted a career, a social life - and her family off her back. It was not the recipe for a happy marriage. Their differences irreconcilable, one of them would choose the violent way out.

When the clan-like Amish circle their wagons around a brutal murder amongst their own, investigators must dig deep to unearth the chilling secrets behind the simple façade of Amish country.

A carjacking murder is far more than it appears when police piece together surveillance videos and track the killer who parked the car and walked away.

Florida v. Kimberly Kessler. Hairstylist Joleen Cummings, a mother of three, was last seen working at Tangles Hair Salon on Mother’s Day in 2018. But when she failed to pick up her children for a planned celebration, she was reported missing by her ex-husband. Investigators discovered a bloody scene at the salon – Cummings and her SUV were gone. The next day, authorities found the car but not Joleen, parked outside a nearby Home Depot. Soon, police were on the hunt for Joleen’s killer and would first arrest the suspect for Grand Theft Auto and later for first degree murder.

Florida v. Dayonte Resiles. An heir to the Halliburton oil dynasty fortune, Jill Halliburton Su, was found by her son Justin dead in the bathtub at her upscale home in a Florida gated community in 2014. The security cameras weren't working, a glass door had been shattered, and at least one room of the house had been ransacked. Police quickly focused on Justin as the prime suspect, grilling him intensely for hours. But despite the dramatic interrogation room sessions, the son never admitted guilt. A few days later, when crime scene DNA forensic tests were finally processed, Justin was cleared; and investigators were after a new suspect.

Jeannie Miatta may have been prosecuted for theft when working as a nurse in one State, but what did that have to do with Jeanine Hannah, a Nurse in another state? Answer: They were one and the same person. And the carer who got a job visiting elderly patients in their own homes, could not be trusted with her patient’s property...or their lives. With one confirmed murder and suspicions of a second, Jeanine Hannah protests her innocence in a  prison-interview with award-wining reporter, Carolyn Canville.

Jesse Matthew boasted the build of a football player, large enough to play college football in Charlottesville and win a scholarship. He was also a sexual predator who hid in plain sight. He snatched his first victim, 21 year old Morgan Harrington from a campus, and five years later snatched Hannah Graham.  Alongside other sex attacks on young woimen, Matthew became the threat all parents fear.