A lifelong resident of the tiny town of Lefroy, Tasmania was murdered outside his own home. Robbery appeared to be the motive, but with no suspects, the investigation came to a halt.
The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
An assistant manager of a Florida steakhouse is stabbed to death. It appears to be a robbery gone wrong.
A young woman is found dead in her apartment. With little evidence at the scene, the case turns cold.
A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
In 1995, Palm Beach waitress Denise O'Neill is abducted and murdered. Her neighbor Luis Caballero arouses suspicions by his odd behavior toward TV crews covering the crime.
When an off-duty policeman was shot dead, his fellow officers were determined to solve the crime. They needed clues to find the killer and they discovered them in tiny fibres and an asthma inhaler.
In 1999, Susan Fassett was gunned down as she left her church choir practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. After clearing her husband, police turned their attention to Fred Andros, with whom Susan had an affair.
When court clerk Peter Porco doesn't report to his work in November 2004, a courts officer is ordered to the Porcos' family home in Bethlehem, NY.
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
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.
Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.
A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.
Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
A girl claimed she had been abducted. She recounted what happened but things didn't add up to police.
A fireman died from what appeared to be heart disease, but his family was skeptical of the cause of death.
A man's wife took her own life and his college sweetheart killed herself the same way. Was it coincidence?
The victim was a self-made man who never minced words. Perhaps he was murdered by a disgruntled client.
In 2007, the Florida mobile home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire. Michael heroically rescues his wife and infant son. A month later, his wife is found beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents' home.