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When a popular high school cheerleader is abducted and found stabbed to death in a water retention tank, it takes several years until the murderer makes the mistake of implicating himself as a new victim giving the authorities the evidence needed to pin him to the brutal killing.

An 86-year-old woman is stabbed and strangled in her home, within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of canyon lake, california. Before the body is cold, another elderly woman is brutally slain. Investigators can’t find a motive, and the violence against the frail victims is so shockingly over-the-top, they fear there’s a psychopathic serial killer on the loose. While the community cowers in fear, and people move their elderly parents out of canyon lake, police race to stop the killer in time. In their investigation, they dig deep for the scanty forensic evidence, befriend potential suspects, and are appalled by a callous post-kill ritual that becomes the murderer’s trademark.

Sometimes law enforcement personnel behave the same way as the people they arrest.

Dr. G works on unexplained deaths in orange and osceola counties in florida, as well as similar deaths from her previous employment as an associate medical examiner in bexar county, texas. The show features dramatic re-enactments of the events leading up to the person's death as well as the autopsies. Interviews with dr. G, family members, and other people connected to the deaths are also shown.

The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach, just ten yards from the hotel where she was staying. A pair of men’s tennis shoes was discovered near her body. Police were sure that if they found the man who fit the shoes, they would also find the man who committed the crime.

A 13-year-old girl went missing from her Colorado home, and the only evidence the kidnapper left behind was three fingerprints on a window screen. Two years later, a latent print examiner, new to the county and the crime lab, changed the course of the investigation by sharing a little-known fact with his colleagues.

A brutal murder, lots of suspects, and conflicting evidence... but the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew his victim. And that alone gave investigators a head start

A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.

Some killers choose to hide their victims - and investigators must then rely on forensic examiners to uncover proof of murder – these are just two extraordinary crimes that have made their way into the medical examiner’s casebook.

The average bank robbery yields roughly 3,000 dollars. Yet some criminals risk everything for the take. In suburban Chicago, a disguised gunman began a series of robberies, growing more violent with each one.

Murder-for-hire is a complex crime. Solving it means finding the killer, and whoever paid for the hit. In South Carolina a death first ruled accidental was no accident, but that was just the beginning.

When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her abusive husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But Bill Carter pointed the finger at someone else--his son Jason. It was up to the jury to decide whom to believe.

A Wisconsin couple’s drive turns tragic when a pipe allegedly flies off a truck and smashes their windshield. As bloodstain evidence and crash tests clash with the husband’s story, investigators ask if this was accident or foul play.

Investigators uncover a bizarre web of lies involving a conman posing as a doctor, Lisa Henning obsessed with reptilian conspiracies—leading to one of New Mexico's strangest and most chilling murder cases.

When an affluent couple is brutally murdered a seemingly random home invasion unravels into a sinister plot of greed, deception, with Kara Lounsbury shockingly close to the family circle.

In the 1970’s and ‘80s, people went to Alaska looking for a fresh start, to reinvent themselves, or to disappear for a while. Some of those disappearances weren’t by choice.

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, young mothers become prey for a sexual sadist who stalks them, using homemade "tire-poppers" to force them off the

Teen runaway Maggie Fetty is found strangled to death on a mountain road. An anonymous tipster blames Maggie’s best friend, but she accuses a mental patient with multiple personalities. Kenda must turn the suspects against each other to learn the truth.

Us coastguardsman ricky dale hemphill and companion charla toma set out for a picnic along a river near brookings, oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later ricky is found murdered and charla is missing. A tip from a local hunter leads police to edward delen warren, a former convict in the area trying to set up a religious retreat. What police uncover is a bizarre plot that will soon spiral out of control.

When San Diego Police Officer Kirk Johnson is found shot to death in his service vehicle, evidence points to a fellow law enforcement officer. Detectives reluctantly begin to investigate their own when an astonishing tip leads to an unlikely killer.