
72 Hours: True Crime
A Girl Guide leader is found dead on the floor of her bedroom.

A Girl Guide leader is found dead on the floor of her bedroom.

A young couple hits the road, hitchhiking across North America.

In 1993, a young boy made the headlines when he was found as a stowaway on a plane which had arrived in Miami.

It all started on the night of February 26 to 27, 2012. It was half past midnight when Stéphane Fournier arrived at the forest of Saint Lambert des Bois.

In 2012, when Commander Philippe Hittinger was entrusted with one of the oldest "cold cases" in France, he could not imagine the outcome.

The Savage Murder of a Mother and her Daughter (Amato Case)- On March 31, 2003, firefighters were called to a fire in a housing estate of Meyrargues, near Aix-en-Provence. On site, they discovered a horrific scene: the tortured and charred bodies of a mother and her daughter, Chantal and Audrey D'Amato, aged 53 and 24 respectively.

THE CASE OF STÉPHANE KAMEUGNE - On December 24, 2008, the body of Stéphane Kameugne was fished out from a canal in Châlons-en-Champagne. The young man had been missing for two weeks and no one had seen him since the evening of his graduation ceremony from his engineering school. A theory soon emerged: the very drunk student had fallen over thea bridge over the canal which led to his death. But his parents and relatives did not believe this.

Tensions run high as Indonesian and Australia police work together in cracking the case, to nab the terrorists. But the search for a breakthrough sees a string of disappointments.

The seeds of terror are sown long before the 2002 Bali attack. First, a "dress rehearsal" in Indonesia helps with getting the bombs just right. And then, a twist of fate in Singapore unlocks the door to Bali.

Having killed his wife and buried her in the basement, Dr Crippen believed he had escaped on a ship to Canada.

This 13-year-old pulled off almost half a million dollars worth of fraud, often selling goods that didn't exist.

Obsessed with boys toys, he posed as a barrister and claimed he worked for the British Government secret service.

Holt's interest in true crimes led him to write a song about serial killer Dennis Rader, titled 'BTK'.

The Hillside Stranglers were a pair of violent cousins who murdered women and left their bodies in the Hollywood Hills. Initially, law enforcement officers were unaware two serial killers were on the loose and, at the time of recording their song.

In 1981 Toronto, a model is reported dead at home by someone saying that they are the superintendent of the apartment block.

One morning in the stairwell of a Toronto building, a guard makes a grotesque discovery: the dead body of a Filipina nanny.

This 13-year-old pulled off almost half a million dollars worth of fraud, often selling goods that didn't exist.

The official undercover program is launched in the 1970s, as agents begin the war against drugs and take on the might of the Mr Asia crime ring.

It was at the end of February 2005 that Françoise Chabé was found dead at her home. It was her partner who found her lifeless body. He quickly became the police's prime suspect.

Ghislaine Marchal was found lifeless in her villa in Cannes, next to her, a message written on a door: "Omar killed me".