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A church lady's murder leads to a number of rumors spreading around Georgiana, Ala., causing detectives to struggle with separating fact from fiction.

When Sadie Beacham didn’t receive a good night call from her boyfriend, she was alarmed. She found his front door open and blood on the floor and walls. Detectives could not locate his body, but DNA evidence pointed to someone Sadie knew well.  

Attorney Richard Merritt, had a last home cooked meal with his mother before he was set to report to jail for embezzlement. But when Merritt didn’t show up on time investigators found his mother dead in the living room. Merritt claimed an intruder had attacked them both and he had fled for his life.

Philadelphia’s vidocq society, named after an 18th century french detective, is one of the world’s most unusual crime-solving organizations. These prominent sleuths solve a murder case from a missing shoe, and successfully prove homicide without a body.

For some killers, murder can be a profitable business. And the scene of the crime can be both a source for clues, and puzzling questions. When a victim has been targeted for death, investigators must look beyond the obvious to uncover a murder for hire.

Rachel Siani’s life ended in tragedy, with clues pointing to a dark obsession. The investigation unearths secrets of her double life and the dangers within it.

On Halloween night, Erik Poltorak opened his door, unaware of the danger awaiting him. What happens next leaves detectives struggling to unravel a carefully laid plan.

Dolly Hearn and Jennifer Corbin both died mysteriously, with signs pointing to suicide. But when connections emerge between their deaths, detectives look closer.

When a mother and her step-daughter go missing, investigators zero in on an unlikely suspect who almost commits a perfect crime.

Who would want to shoot well known nice guy Trenton Mallory? Detectives wonder if his Trading Trent empire has become his downfall.

When 71-year-old Colleen Harris discovered her 73-year-old husband Robert was having a long-distance affair with a 35-year-old woman in Mongolia, she decided to teach him a lesson.

Adam Mayes' best friend has two young daughters - with whom Adam has a twisted obsession. He kills their mother and elder sister before kidnapping the two younger girls.

Natavia Lowery was celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein's personal assistant. But then Linda found out that Natavia was stealing money from her.

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

Keith is known in his small community as a quiet but a highly skilled artisan who takes good care of his mother. When she becomes mysteriously ill and Keith is not heard from for three weeks, all eyes turn to Keith’s girlfriend. As detectives look deeper into the case, and further into Betty’s background, a final, brutal discovery is uncovered.

On the edge of the Rocky Mountains, near the small town of Gunnison, Colorado, Jake Millison has gone missing. His family isn’t too concerned with his whereabouts, claiming he’s run off before, but Jake’s loyal friends know better

In Louisiana, a brutal killer turned a rural area into his personal hunting ground. He preyed on the defenseless, the weak and the elderly.

In Las Vegas, a gang of robbers target an ATM repository and hit the jackpot. Their take was over a million dollars in cash, the largest heist in Las Vegas history.

A young girl is forced to assist her mother in a terrible crime and then bury the secret for twenty years. Judy Gough, a vivacious hairdresser, shot and killed her husband in cold blood, and then forced her daughter to help her cover her tracks. The secret almost destroys Kim Wohlert until the day she decides to bring her mother to justice.

The wife and daughter of a successful senior manager disappear from their home on a dark winter’s night. As family and friends wait anxiously for news of their return, police suspicion hones in on Michael Blagg, a respected Christian who is hiding twisted secrets.

As women disappear off the streets of East Cleveland without a trace, Lori Frazier has no idea that her charming boyfriend is living a treacherous double life. Her life is at risk until the day she seeks recovery, but eleven other vulnerable women are not so lucky and become victims of the Cleveland strangler.

A waitress returns home to rural Washington where she falls in love with a handsome farmhand. She is forced to fight for her life when she becomes the victim of a vicious attack at the hands of a predator, who, police believe, is a serial killer.

Michigan v. Kemia Hassel. New Year’s Eve and a seemingly random murder, in the small town of Benton Harbor , on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Police body cam video captured the heartbroken cries of young Army Sergeant Kemia Hessel as she cradled her handsome, dying young husband in her arms, as he was loaded into an ambulance. But despite the happy outward appearance of the attractive young military couple, investigators soon accused Kemia of directing a murder-for-hire plot with the help of a lover she met while deployed in Korea. Her boyfriend quickly confessed and in a dramatic, videotaped jail house phone call, laid out the murder plot to the victim’s father. Kemia at first denied involvement and despite admissions in a lie detector exam, strongly defended her innocence, claiming her comments to police came from exhaustion and grief. She pointed the finger of blame at her jealous boyfriend who she said acted alone.

Wisconsin v. Prokopovitz. When Victoria Prokopovitz went missing in 2013, her three grown children were beside themselves with worry. Her husband, James Prokopovitz, seemed oddly unconcerned about his wife’s disappearance, telling police she often wandered off and had twice tried to commit suicide. Despite a massive search, Victoria was never found. But a private detective who saw news reports of the missing woman offered his help to Victoria’s eldest daughter Marsha who kept up a Facebook campaign over the years hoping for clues about her mother’s disappearance.

Carole and Harry Jarvis were married for over 30 years. But he met a new woman, heiress Rita Heyster, and decided it was time to move on. In a bizarre, twisted scheme, Harry and Rita plotted to murder Carole and cover up her death.

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 cash - and recruiting a team of teenagers to help her do it.