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Richard Kananen Sr. abused his wife & three children so badly that no one bothered to report him missing when he disappeared. But when his wife Marilyn vanished fifteen years later, it became clear that the evil in their father had been passed down.

Richard Kananen Sr. abused his wife & three children so badly that no one bothered to report him missing when he disappeared. But when his wife Marilyn vanished fifteen years later, it became clear that the evil in their father had been passed down.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

The world's most notorious murders with a look inside the minds of the killers who committed them.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Investigative reports on crime and justice cases.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Investigative reports on crime and justice cases.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

Small-town plumber John Cataneo fixes other people's homes for a living, until death came knocking on his front door; to find out who wanted him dead, police investigate the contents of Cataneo's own home, and get the leak they need.

When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.

A gruesome video on a stolen SD card exposes Brian Steven Smith's secret double life; David Scott confronts this soft-spoken husband and serial killer about his nighttime hunts for vulnerable Alaskan women.

Yaser Said breaks his silence about the night he fatally shot his teenage daughters near Dallas, Texas, the events leading up to the tragedy, and how he managed to evade capture for over a decade.

Denali Brehmer agrees to kill her best friend for a man she met online offering millions for murder, but an interview with Brehmer reveals she's far from a naive teen led astray by an outside influence.

Bo Pete Jeffrey claims no memory of the crime he's convicted for, the brutal beating and murder of his wife; four years into his life sentence, Jeffrey tells a different story that opens a new window into the mind of this convicted murderer.

Tyler Hadley discusses how he, as a troubled 17-year-old, bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a hammer.

The prosecution claims Darrin Lopez executed Jamie Faith to be with high school sweetheart Jennifer Faith, with whom he had an online BDSM affair; the defense argues Jennifer exploited Darrin's trust and PTSD.

The confession by teenagers Alex and Derek King that they bludgeoned their father to death is called into question after the family friend who turned the boys in, Ricky Chavis, is revealed to be a pedophile who wanted Alex to himself.

Although Hemy Neuman is on trial for executing Rusty Sneiderman in the parking lot of his son's daycare, the prosecution turns on their star witness, Rusty's wife Andrea, who they suspect to be the real mastermind behind her husband's death.

The cold-blooded murder of Ron Stovall - chased down and executed inside his own home - had all the signs of a mob hit. After a criminal with alleged ties to organized crime was arrested with the murder weapon, police thought they had their man.

Once prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh's life begins to unravel after the murders of his wife, Maggie and youngest son Paul as an investigation uncovers years of drug abuse and theft of millions of dollars.

Kyle Rittenhouse shoots and kills two people and aims a third during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin; the 17-year-old, armed with an AR-15, claims he acted in self-defense because he feared for his life.

In 2017, a woman dials 911 to report her husband is dead on the floor of his snake breeding facility; Lynlee Renick claims she has no idea who shot and killed him; after four years of twists, turns and secrets revealed, Lynlee Renick goes to trial.

A clown carrying balloons and a basket of flowers shoots and kills Marlene Warren when she opens her front door in 1990; even though police suspected Warren's ex-husband and his then-girlfriend, it would take decades to make an arrest.

A look at the conclusion of actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of Western film "Rust.".

For the four LAPD cops who beat Rodney King with batons, it may have been business as usual; but then the world learned that it had been captured on video, and those 81 seconds changed everything.

When Charlie Manson and members of his family were given the death penalty for the Helter Skelter murders, people thought their reign of terror was over, but then California overturned the death penalty, making parole an option.

Gina and Sunny Han's rivalry was so intense it led to a murder plot and trial filled with twists and turns that have to be seen to be believed.

Just weeks after a jury found four LAPD officers innocent of brutally beating Rodney King, the LAPD was once again put in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

A teenager and a middle-aged man rob and try to murder another man and his 80-year-old mother.

A man robs Wells Fargo Bank in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 10, 1999, claiming the money would be used to feed poor Mexican children.

Sixty-four-year-old Thurman Martin ruled his family with an iron fist, brutally beating anyone who dared stand up to his emotional and physical abuse. Then one day he vanished, his family telling police he'd left with just a few changes of clothing.

Vicki and Gerald Monroe's dream of owning and operating a Louisville bar together came to a tragic end when Vicki found her husband shot dead and the cash register emptied in an apparent robbery.

When Sherri Malarik is found dead in a Winn-Dixie parking lot, police suspect her husband Greg is involved; but it takes twenty years and the confession of his accomplice and former lover Jennifer Spohn to finally charge him with murder.

After a masked man shot dentist Norman Larzelere who dies in the arms of his hysterical wife Virginia, police initially suspect a robbery gone wrong; a friend of Virginia's oldest son Jason reveals a twisted plot.

A Sunday afternoon movie date turns deadly when a confrontation over a cell phone and a bag of popcorn ends with a gunshot and retired police captain Curtis Reeves claims he acted in self-defense.

When Lori Vallow's children go missing, she moves to Hawaii and marries cult leader Chad Daybell, leaving behind a path of destruction and several dead bodies in her wake.

The annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., is struck by tragedy when Darrel Brooks drives his SUV through the parade route; the tragedy turns into a spectacle when Brooks decides to represent himself at trial.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's career suffers after his ex-wife Amber Heard wrote an op-ed claiming to be a victim of sexual violence; what follows is a civil trial that captures the attention of the public.

When Ahmad Arbery is out jogging, three men assume he's a burglar and chase him down; they shoot him multiple times; the cellphone video captured by Arbery's assailants proves that these men were not the heroes they claimed to be.

A gruesome video on a stolen SD card exposes Brian Steven Smith's secret double life; David Scott confronts this soft-spoken husband and serial killer about his nighttime hunts for vulnerable Alaskan women.

Yaser Said breaks his silence about the night he fatally shot his teenage daughters near Dallas, Texas, the events leading up to the tragedy, and how he managed to evade capture for over a decade.

Denali Brehmer agrees to kill her best friend for a man she met online offering millions for murder, but an interview with Brehmer reveals she's far from a naive teen led astray by an outside influence.

Bo Pete Jeffrey claims no memory of the crime he's convicted for, the brutal beating and murder of his wife; four years into his life sentence, Jeffrey tells a different story that opens a new window into the mind of this convicted murderer.

Tyler Hadley discusses how he, as a troubled 17-year-old, bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a hammer.

A young, idealistic rookie for the West New York, N.J., Police Department discovers a pattern of pervasive criminal behavior within his department and decides to go under cover for the FBI.

Two decorated New York City police officers on the payroll of the Mafia take bribes in exchange for confidential information and carry out eight gangland-style murders.

A New Orleans crack dealer reports cops to the feds, which leads to an elaborate sting involving a warehouse full of cocaine and the murder of an innocent woman.

The son of a renowned sheriff and his cronies sell thousands of pounds of stolen drugs until they're brought down by investigators within the Department of Homeland Security.

Two Baltimore cops rob criminals, sell confiscated drugs, and pocket the profits until a 16-year-old drug dealer goes under cover for the FBI to bring them down.

A bad cop-turned-good in North Carolina helps uncover a pattern of crimes committed by officers in the sheriff's department, which brings down 22 law enforcement officials.

A bride-to-be disappears; a Mexican drug lord says his cartel protects people from even more violent rivals.

A young wife and mother thinks murder is easier than divorce; a suspected terrorist is accused of plotting to detonate a dirty bomb.

A woman's conviction of murder is overturned; football player Rae Carruth conspires to murder the mother of his unborn child.

Two serial killers terrorize Phoenix with a random pattern of shootings at night.

After accepting a plea deal in a missing teen's death, Kat McDonough admits to authorities that she offered up the girl for sex with her dominant boyfriend, Seth Mazzaglia.

Jane Bashara is found strangled to death in her car; self-proclaimed genius Martin Frankel becomes a multimillionaire by breaking the law.

An Englishman uses household tools to commit murder; a woman is accused in the death of her husband.

A billionaire is arrested for insider trading; "The Wolf of Wall Street" defrauds more than 1,500 clients.

American college student Amanda Knox, studying abroad, finds herself facing a lifetime behind bars after her roommate is murdered.

A police officer kills a father of six with an illegal chokehold; the FBI hunts for computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

A British male model's night of sex, drugs and violence ends in murder; a body stuffed in a suitcase in Bali.

High school staffer Pamela Smart has a love affair with a student and convinces him to kill her husband.

Teen twins say an intruder broke into their home and killed their mother, but the truth is far more sinister; TWA Flight 800 explodes in flames over Long Island.

An affair between Sunday school teachers leads to a husband's murder; a Bollywood star is accused in the death of a homeless man.

Though admitting to abusing drugs and stripping for money, Nevada's Kirsten Lobato denies being a killer; a real-life soap opera turns into a twisted, lethal tale.

Jerad and Amanda Miller take their extremist views on a violent rampage; a teacher's husband goes over the edge when she begins dating one of her former students.

Updates on how author Ann Rule helped a woman prove that her daughter was killed.

A young woman who had been conned by her boyfriend goes missing.

A New York dentist denies killing his lover's husband -- who was also his best friend.

When an unfaithful husband is murdered, suspicions arise as to whether his wife and her best friend know more than they let on.

The investigation into the shooting death of retired NYPD officer Patrick Gilhuley, including interviews with jury members and a deconstruction of forensic evidence.

A 40-year hunt for a convicted killer on the run.

The manhunt for Colton Harris-Moore, whose international crime spree made him an unlikely folk hero.

A teenage girl stops a serial killer in his tracks.

What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, Fla., ends in blood-soaked violence, leaving a mother of three a quadriplegic; police find that this seemingly random act may not have been so random after all.

The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.

After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body gets discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.

In Kentucky a husband's marriage is threatened by the wild parties thrown on his luxury boat; a mistress plots to eliminate her romantic rival in England.

In Missouri, a preacher falling for a parishioner has deadly consequences; a washing line provides clues as to what happened to a troubled wife in Canada.

Twisted lovers terrorize a pizza store in California; in England, a man's mistress takes matters into her own hands when he won't leave his wife.

In California, a wife in an affair with a doctor makes a dangerous choice; a birthday celebration ends in horror in Australia.

An obsessive ex-cop in Michigan is prepared to do anything for his lover; sex becomes a powerful weapon as a marriage falls apart in Ontario, Canada.

In Newtown, CT a flight attendant vanishes into the night after returning home; in Virginia, a trip to an ATM machine ends in mystery and murder.

A millionaire's teenage daughter is kidnapped for ransom.

The FBI captures five terrorists who tried to hijack a Royal Jordanian flight in 1985.

Kidnappers posing as FBI agents take a teenager from her home.

Authorities range from Alabama to Virginia in search of cousins suspected of seven murders, robbery and possession of an arsenal.

The police call in the FBI when they suspect that a woman's former lover is responsible for her disappearance, but they can't find a body or murder weapon.

The kidnapper of a teen wants ransom and his family's car.

Street gang members kill two FBI agents and a detective in Washington, D.C.

A man who hunted outdoorsmen, killing them with a high-powered rifle, is caught when the FBI receives a tip leading to the murder weapon.

Investigators suspect the murder of a diner owner in Philadelphia to be the work of the mafia.

When a boy and his mother were abducted by a drug cartel, agents worked in the field to penetrate the secretive drug underworld.

A killer's cleanliness leaves evidence of his participation in the sexual assaults and murders of a woman and her two daughters.

FBI labs enable investigators and agents to identify a victim and establish what her activities were before she died.

An FBI task force conducts an international manhunt to find a Mexican serial killer.

Evidence points to an ex-girlfriend in the deaths of a man's new wife and son.

Yaser Said breaks his silence about the night he fatally shot his teenage daughters near Dallas, Texas, the events leading up to the tragedy, and how he managed to evade capture for over a decade.

A gruesome video on a stolen SD card exposes Brian Steven Smith's secret double life; David Scott confronts this soft-spoken husband and serial killer about his nighttime hunts for vulnerable Alaskan women.

Agents link a string of bank robberies in Texas to similar heists in California.

The Bureau creates specialized teams to root out and dismantle terrorist operations.

The FBI at first suspects a woman's husband in her disappearance.

A man kills three coffee-shop employees.

Emotions ran high in the days following the Nov. 11, 2001 attack on the U.S.; for the most part, the grief and anger brought people together but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.

It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.

A teen claims a masked intruder killed her stepfather; a young bride dies while scuba diving near the Great Barrier Reef.

When one corrupt LAPD officer is arrested, it has a domino affect and the department is forever changed.

Ennis Cosby is gunned down on the streets of Los Angeles while changing a tire; during the Reagan administration, the U.S. is accused of selling weapons in exchange for hostages.