When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Year's Day 1985, a boy is left motherless a family waits 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
Near what's known as the hanging tree, the mutilated body of Timothy Coggins is found in late 1983 the investigation is thwarted and the case freezes for over 30 years, until a newly elected sheriff vows to bring the killers to justice.
DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.
A detective tracks down a man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier police search for the killer of an 18-year-old hitchhiker.
After a woman's disappearance, the Los Angeles police get an anonymous call to investigate a suspect an eyelash is a clue in the death of a woman stabbed many times.
Nearly 20 years after they first suspect him, police arrest Gary Ridgway, the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history.
James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years.
When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Year's Day 1985, a boy is left motherless a family waits 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
Thirteen days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988, her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert when a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both.
A co-worker goes to check on a woman who failed to show up for work a woman reports being raped in her home.
Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist after 26 years, investigators finally solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl.
An unresolved murder from 1974 leads back to a high school janitor a man confesses to killing his girlfriend.
Rapes plague the Linden area of Columbus, Ohio a hitchhiker's corpse is found in the California redwoods.
The infant subject of a child-custody dispute is found burned a body is discovered in a home's crawlspace.
When a deadly house fire claims the life of a family in rural Oklahoma, investigators suspect foul play and a mother goes on a decadeslong crusade to find out what happened to her missing teenage daughter and best friend.
Thirteen days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988, her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert when a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both.
A co-worker goes to check on a woman who failed to show up for work a woman reports being raped in her home.
Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist after 26 years, investigators finally solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl.
An unresolved murder from 1974 leads back to a high school janitor a man confesses to killing his girlfriend.
Rapes plague the Linden area of Columbus, Ohio a hitchhiker's corpse is found in the California redwoods.