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.
Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.
Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.
A killer made great effort to obscure the shoe impressions left when he tracked blood on the floor, but he ended up creating new incriminating evidence...
In 2003, Tiffany Rowell and three of her friends were brutally murdered in affluent Clear Lake, Texas.
Responding to a 2008 garage fire, Illinois emergency response discovered a man crushed beneath a truck.
In 2006, Darlene VanderGiesen received threatening emails and then disappeared. Tracking the source of the emails led police to the home of Daphne Wright, where they believe a murder was committed.
An assistant manager of a Florida steakhouse is stabbed to death. It appears to be a robbery gone wrong.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
Two suspects are linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, but the owner of the items says he has never met the victim.
When a college student is reported missing, police believe their investigation will be like countless others.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
In 2005, David Castor suffered a slow, agonizing death over a period of days. His wife maintained it was suicide, even though it was done with antifreeze.
A fireman died from what appeared to be heart disease, but his family was skeptical of the cause of death.
A young woman attends evening church services... then disappears. When her abandoned car is found, the tank is empty and a gas can she kept in her trunk for emergencies is missing.
James Kenneth Elmen Jr. abducted Julie Estes, then 21, from the Southside convenience store where she worked in 1985.
In 1996, Virginia Beach police arrive at the Makdessi apartment to find Elise Makdessi and her lover dead.
After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.