When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August 1986, residents of Tacoma, Wash., panic convinced a predator is on the loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry to catch the killer.
In early 1984, 3-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family's brutal murder initial investigators suspect a serial killer is at large, but decades pass before DNA narrows the suspect pool to one man.
When 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally murdered in her Lancaster, Pa., apartment in 1992, there is no shortage of suspects.
Detectives search for a man who rapes and kills women an ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect when a man goes missing.
A member of the Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA Initiative to fund the testing of rape kits a deputy district attorney in Sacramento County, Calif., uses a DNA grant to find a killer.
A cold case involving the murder of a Texas woman is solved when the killer's plan to kill another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awry a cigarette helps to solve a murder.
A 3-year-old boy provides police with evidence in a murder case a murdered housewife is buried in her own cellar.
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August 1986, residents of Tacoma, Wash., panic convinced a predator is on the loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry to catch the killer.
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August 1986, residents of Tacoma, Wash., panic convinced a predator is on the loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry to catch the killer.
In early 1984, 3-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family's brutal murder initial investigators suspect a serial killer is at large, but decades pass before DNA narrows the suspect pool to one man.
When 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally murdered in her Lancaster, Pa., apartment in 1992, there is no shortage of suspects.
Detectives search for a man who rapes and kills women an ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect when a man goes missing.
A member of the Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA Initiative to fund the testing of rape kits a deputy district attorney in Sacramento County, Calif., uses a DNA grant to find a killer.
A cold case involving the murder of a Texas woman is solved when the killer's plan to kill another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awry a cigarette helps to solve a murder.
A 3-year-old boy provides police with evidence in a murder case a murdered housewife is buried in her own cellar.
When firefighter Gary Parks is killed in a fire ruled to be arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide a serial arsonist is thought to be the culprit, but it takes a dogged cold-case detective to track down the real killer.
When firefighter Gary Parks is killed in a fire ruled to be arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide a serial arsonist is thought to be the culprit, but it takes a dogged cold-case detective to track down the real killer.
When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December of 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned.
The unsolved murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane an Illinois rape case.
Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.