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.
After inspecting storm damage to a home in Tampa, an insurance assessor simply disappeared. Thirty hours later, her body was found in a nearby river. But the killer had been careless.
It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene. But in this case, it was far from clear. It looked like the killer vanished into thin air...and perhaps he had.
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.
In 2004, Mary Ann Clibbery was found brutally murdered in her Illinois business and investigators had to determine if this was a robbery gone wrong or a calculated murder.
When a car was found in a drainage ditch with two bodies inside, a fingertip torn from a latex glove would point investigators to both the crime scene and the killer.
Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.
When two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered, police wondered if they were victims of a hate crime.
In 2008, the body of Colorado real estate developer Alan Helmick was found by his wife, Miriam, who then became the prime suspect.
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.
In 2000, Judy Southern arrived home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting within. Her husband Allen arrived shortly afterwards, called 911 to report his wife had been shot.
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
In 2006, Nevada politician Kathy Augustine died mysteriously during a hard-fought re-election campaign and the medical examiner could neither isolate the cause of death.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
In 1996, Virginia Beach police arrive at the Makdessi apartment to find Elise Makdessi and her lover dead.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their Napa home.
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.
Even though their daughter had run away before, she'd always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.