When hunters found a skull in a Texas canyon, police found bits of clothing, small bones and a strand of hair. A forensic artist reconstructed her face. Now all they had to do was find her killer.
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Lisa Manderach and her daughter Devon left their Pennsylvania home to go shopping but didn't return home.
A California teen went missing. Police suspected she'd run away until her body was discovered in a ditch.
In 1989, 4-year-old April Loveless was found dead in the backyard of her Texas home. Her mother Debbie Loveless and stepfather John Miller told police that she was attacked and killed by the family dogs. Investigators did not agree.
When hunters found a skull in a Texas canyon, police found bits of clothing, small bones and a strand of hair. A forensic artist reconstructed her face. Now all they had to do was find her killer.
Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting on a beautiful spring day and Martin was shot dead.
A serial rapist is on the loose in a Texas town. No one knew where he'd strike next, but the audacity of his attacks and the escalation of violence against his victims made finding him imperative.
An aspiring model turned up dead and the prime suspect was her boyfriend. When he was eventually cleared, investigators had to dig deeper to find the perpetrator.
Digital enhancement of security camera video shows that what appears to be a casual encounter is actually a forced abduction, leading to murder.
When a man is shot down in his garage, police discover that a wound on the widow may have been self-inflicted.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
In 1996, Indiana police identified Richard Alexander as the "River Park Rapist" who assaulted four women that year. Later, DNA analysis casts doubt on his conviction.
A woman who was known to have suffered from depression took her own life. But her sister told police that she said if anything were to happen to her there would be a note in the china cabinet.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
The wife of a respected police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, until a newly formed cold case unit took a fresh look at the evidence.
In 1999, a 12-year-old was found murdered in her home in Minnesota. Despite a meticulous search of the home and an exhaustive investigation, police had no suspects.
In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club she worked at in East Hartford, CT. Police look at various customers of the strip club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.
When a hit-and-run accident claimed the life of a high school athlete, everyone in town mourned his passing. Finding the killer was a long shot at best.
In 1998, an evening out at a Maryland murder mystery theatre performance turns into a real-life whodunit when the badly burned body of Stephen Hricko is discovered in his hotel room after a fire.
A serial arsonist was on the loose in Washington, DC. Each of the fires was started with the same type of incendiary device. The perpetrator was very careful, and seemed to leave no evidence behind... but there were clues in the ashes, and it was up to forensic scientists to find them.
In 1987, the death of Crystal Purcell was considered an accident. Then in 2001, Barbara Purcell called police to suggest that her estranged husband had killed Crystal.
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