In June 1985, a 20-year-old Sucker Day Festival Queen is found brutalized the small community of Nixa, Mo., is certain her blood is on the hands of a local wealthy businessman, but after 25 years DNA reveals the true killer.
In 1980, radio intern Helene Pruszynski is found brutalized in a snowy field after 37 years of fruitless leads, investigators tap into a public genealogy website that leads them across the country to the killer they've been hunting.
Two unsolved murders of loved ones plague a family detectives uncover a hidden crime scene that may help solve the 13-year-old cold case.
A kidnapper grabs 8-year-old Chad Choice from his home in Texas, then torments his parents with two ransom demands the case goes cold until the parents receive a chilling package in the mail that contains a letter and a skull.
Testimony about the growth of larvae in dead bodies helps to convict a family's killer the 2001 murder of a young girl remains unsolved.
DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.
A murder victim's niece starts an advocate group a car preserves a victim's body.
When Cree woman Shirley Soosay goes missing in 1980, her niece Violet promises her grandmother that she will bring Shirley home Violet never dreamed the search for Shirley -- and justice -- would take a lifetime.
On Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field the investigation yields many leads, but no true suspect after more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.
Twenty-three-year-old teacher Irene Garza is a former beauty queen and devout Catholic who vanishes the evening before Easter residents of her close-knit border town do their best to locate her, but her body is found floating in a drainage canal.
Police suspect that brothers murdered hunters, then fed them to pigs police develop a DNA profile from a rapist's saliva.
A body is found in Cobbs Creek on the west side of Philadelphia two girls befriend an elderly rich man who winds up missing.
Forensic clay modeling helps investigators identify a murder victim two boys perform satanic rituals and set fires.
Saliva seals a killer's doom an arson investigator is accused of setting fires.
Saliva seals a killer's doom an arson investigator is accused of setting fires.
When Cree woman Shirley Soosay goes missing in 1980, her niece Violet promises her grandmother that she will bring Shirley home Violet never dreamed the search for Shirley -- and justice -- would take a lifetime.
On Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field the investigation yields many leads, but no true suspect after more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.
Twenty-three-year-old teacher Irene Garza is a former beauty queen and devout Catholic who vanishes the evening before Easter residents of her close-knit border town do their best to locate her, but her body is found floating in a drainage canal.
Police suspect that brothers murdered hunters, then fed them to pigs police develop a DNA profile from a rapist's saliva.
A body is found in Cobbs Creek on the west side of Philadelphia two girls befriend an elderly rich man who winds up missing.