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This new weekly signature newsmagazine series will bring viewers storytelling at its best from the archives of the Court TV library, incorporating the most popular cases in the vault past and present that have captured national attention.

NFL star Kellen Winslow II seemingly had it all when he left the game behind, but five women came forward to accuse him of rape and other sex crimes.

A 51-day standoff between federal agents and cult leader David Koresh ends in a fiery tragedy.

Pro-football legend Steve McNair's secret affair ends in a murder/suicide; Chicago cop Jon Burge provides extremely cruel and unusual punishment.

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.

Mafia hit man Maurizio Avola, betrayed because he knows too much, turns informer in a secret ex-Mafioso compound.

More than 200 detectives are dispatched to find and arrest the man murdering prostitutes in Suffolk, England.

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.

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

Paula Gutierrez fell in love as a teen with Nestor 'Chino' de Jesus; his manipulative and abusive behavior turned their romance into a nightmare that ended with Paula facing life in prison for a murder that she didn't commit.

Tyler Edmonds was just thirteen when he confessed to helping his half-sister Kristi Fulgham kill her husband, Joey; did he really commit murder, or was he just one more in a long line of men that Kristi had manipulated to do her bidding?

Investigators compared the gruesome scene of Earl and Terry Robertson's death to that of the Charles Manson murders; how the quiet and mild-mannered Meredith Moon became an accomplice to one of South Carolina's most horrific crimes.

After her husband Brent was murdered, Renée Poole's multiple affairs and secret life as a stripper makes her the main suspect in his death.

When the body of 22-year-old Misty Morse is found floating in the Indian River, police suspect one of her many boyfriends; with only a piece of nautical rope and a strip of duct tape to go on, an unusual kind of DNA could actually break the case.

Austin, Texas, TV executive Steven Beard is shot as he sleeps; with only a single shotgun shell to go on, police follow a trail from mansions and country clubs to bookstores and hospital psych wards.

David Coffin's house burned down with him in it, but it wasn't the fire that killed him, it was the bullet in his head; investigators immediately focused on Scott Davis, the estranged husband of Coffin's new girlfriend.

When Atlanta homemaker Sara Tokars is kidnapped, shot and killed in front of her two young children, police are baffled; the answer may lie in the home safe of her husband Fred.

First it was her cop husband, then her firefighter boyfriend; when the men close to Lynn Turner keep dying of what looks like the flu, investigators take a closer look at what she keeps in the basement.

In 2001, University of South Carolina student Shelton Sanders disappeared while planning a friend's bachelor party; he was never seen again; when evidence leads to an arrest, however, prosecutors are left with a tall task.

A man disappears amidst rumors of a local satanic killer; journalist Chad Nance takes up the case as police come up empty-handed.

Chad Nance investigates the background of a mentally-ill killer, while a punk rocker war veteran is forced to make a gut-wrenching decision.

Chad Nance looks beyond the headlines of the Pazuzu Algarad murders to find out if monsters are born or made.

Satanist Pazuzu Algarad escapes trial by taking matters into his own hands; journalist Chad Nace faces the reality that a member of his family is at risk.

Following a dramatic revelation in the Pazuzu Algarad case, journalist Chad Nance and those impacted by the crimes struggle to understand the story they tell.

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.

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.

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.

The murder of hometown NBA player, Lorenzen Wright remains unsolved until alleged accomplice Jimmy Martin reveals the location of the murder weapon, implicating Wright's ex-wife Sherra and her yardman Billy Ray Turner.

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 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.".

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.

The discovery of a Jane Doe underneath a New Jersey bridge kick starts an intensive investigation to figure out who she is and how she died.

The clock is ticking as police in northern Minnesota rush to rescue a kidnapped college student; it takes NASA technology for law enforcement to uncover the identity of the abductor, who turns out to be a serial predator.

When cops investigate the slaying of a casino worker in Las Vegas, they uncover a murder conspiracy that was months in the making.

A local businesswoman's disappearance launches a homicide investigation when police find microscopic evidence in her home and car.

Three women who advertised erotic services on Craiglist are assaulted, on of them is killed; surveillance video and witness reports match a man who no one would ever suspect to be a killer.

When a deadly sniper terrorizes the DC area for weeks, frantic police put out an APB for a white van, but the FBI has a theory that there might be more than one sniper, and they're not driving a white van.

When government intern Chandra Levy goes missing, detectives discover she may have been having an affair with a senator; a man in jail claims he has information.

When a young man is brutally murdered in his home, the only suspect with a motive is his ex-girlfriend, who claims she hasn't seen the victim for months; detectives uncover evidence, and phone messages that tell a different story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.".

Ed Dossett and David Leath were friends with a lot in common; both were well-known around Knoxville, both married the same woman and both turned up dead under suspicious circumstances.

When a fire breaks out in Krystina Sutherland's apartment building, the first suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Charles Loayza; after all, he had threatened to burn it down earlier that day.

On Halloween 1999, Dirk Greineder found his wife, Mabel, brutally beaten in their neighborhood park; when Greineder's account didn't fit with the evidence, investigators took a closer look at him; what they found suggested he had plenty to hide.

In 1969, 15-year-old John McCabe excitedly left for a dance at a neighborhood hall; the discovery of his body in an abandoned lot launched an investigation that lasted 40 years and would turn childhood friends into bitter enemies.

When three high-schoolers are gunned down in their car, police launch an investigation into why they came to such a violent end; ten years later, that investigation reaches a dramatic conclusion in an Albuquerque courtroom.

Girly Chew had been worried about her safety; the investigation into her disappearance would take police into a world of aliens and reptiles, cancer cures and cannibalism, a world inhabited by a charismatic conman and his extra-terrestrial soul-mate.

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.

While driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Chante Mallard allegedly struck pedestrian Gregory Biggs, impaling him in the windshield; what she did and didn't do next, is what turned a terrible accident into a shocking case of murder.

Betty Broderick was a socialite who led a perfect life with a successful husband and kids until it all came crashing down in divorce, and murder.

People couldn't imagine what made Erik and Lyle Menendez brutally murder their parents; the prosecution said it was greed and the defense said something much darker; a family secret that would shock and grip the nation.

Rabbi Fred Neulander was a pillar of his Cherry Hill, New Jersey community - the founder of a synagogue, a father and a husband. Little did anyone know, he was also an adulterer, one capable of hiring a hitman to murder his own wife.

Cynthia Sommer's world was turned upside down when her 23-year-old husband Todd died; nearly five years later she was under arrest and accused of poisoning him.

Scott Amendure thought the "Jenny Jones Show" was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him; three days later, Schmitz shot Amendure to death.

Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.

This new weekly signature newsmagazine series will bring viewers storytelling at its best from the archives of the Court TV library, incorporating the most popular cases in the vault past and present that have captured national attention.

When Vicki Beckham was found dead in her car on the side of a mountain road, with very little evidence, police called it almost the perfect crime; but a series of clues blew the case open, taking them from a strip club bouncer to a Bishop's son.

Divorce wasn't enough to end the animosity between James and Linda Cooney; the bitterness continued until Linda shot James dead with a .357 Magnum; she claimed self-defense, but the only witness was their 10-year-old son.

Successful Atlanta entrepreneur Lance Herndon usually got what he wanted, but when he is found bludgeoned to death in his waterbed, it appeared he got more than he could handle, possibly due to a business deal gone wrong or a girlfriend's revenge.

The mystery surrounding the death of Caylee Anthony grips the nation; the only thing more shocking than the testimony is the verdict itself.

The discovery of Travis Alexander's body, stabbed, slit and shot in the neck, shocked his friends and family; Arizona police charge his girlfriend Jodi Arias with his murder.

Mark Sievers thought he had arranged the perfect murder when he hired a childhood friend and another man to murder his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers; his best laid plan started falling apart when someone he trusted the most turned on him.

Years after being found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson was back in a courtroom and again facing felony charges.

The FBI searches for a man who sneaks up on police officers in patrol cars and opens fire.

Investigative techniques and innovations used by the FBI.

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.

On Halloween 1999, Dirk Greineder found his wife, Mabel, brutally beaten in their neighborhood park; when Greineder's account didn't fit with the evidence, investigators took a closer look at him; what they found suggested he had plenty to hide.

In 1969, 15-year-old John McCabe excitedly left for a dance at a neighborhood hall; the discovery of his body in an abandoned lot launched an investigation that lasted 40 years and would turn childhood friends into bitter enemies.

When Kathryn Hauser was found brutally murdered in her Albuquerque home, friends and family immediately thought it was her estranged husband; but the DNA points elsewhere.

Tonica Jenkins has a talent for manipulating people to get what she wanted.

Toby Lowry and his 15-year-old girlfriend Morgan Leppert murder an elderly disabled man.

Kristi Koslow's relationship with her stepmother Caren and her father Jack Koslow is strained.

Eight people from the same family are shot execution style as they sleep; the investigation uncovers a plot involving an entire household and leading to the trial of the only person from that family who says had nothing to do with it.

Former Miss Georgia contestant Tara Grinstead vanished without a trace in 2005; Ryan Duke, the man arrested for her murder over a decade later, may have been manipulated into confessing by an accomplice who better fits the profile of a killer.

In a modern-day tale of Romeo and Juliet with a Florida twist, high schoolers Courtney Schulhoff and Michael Morin find solace in each other amidst a tumultuous family life; when their families force them apart the couple's desperation turns deadly.

In the peaceful village of Essex Junction, Vermont, Michael Durenleau's life is cut short with a knife through the heart in the darkness behind Veronica's Tavern after celebratory drinks with his wife Rebecca.

In a case that shocked the nation, a mother and son stand trial for the unthinkable; Shanda Vander Ark, once a promising law clerk, now faces murder charges in the death of her own child.

A former marine captain and federal prosecutor becomes hooked on heroin, and as his life spirals out of control, he goes on a six week robbery spree in upstate New York.

Christian rock musician and aspiring pro poker player Clay Tumey goes on a nine-month bank robbing spree to fund his gambling before turning himself in.

Stuck in a dead-end job, David Ghantt decides to take destiny into his own hands and commits the second largest bank heist in US history, stealing over $17 million.

For Cuban exile Karls Monzon and his crew, stealing $7 million from Miami Airport is the easy part, keeping it proves far harder, as the gang spirals out of control.

Marcus becomes caught up in the '90s Washington, D.C., crime wave, slinging crack at 13 and stealing cars at 15; the night he shows a friend how to jack a car leaves them both facing life in prison.

By 18, Sean becomes New York's No. 1 club drug plug; one year later, he runs an international ecstasy smuggling operation and makes millions.

A fascinating, fast paced and forensic look into some of the real-life murder cases that have made the headlines around the world.

During the investigation into a serial killer, police become aware that there is a second serial killer on the loose; the second killer believes he is sacrificing people to save humanity.

A missing newlywed's body is found at the bottom of a Montana waterfall just eight days after his wedding.

Police search for two missing Florida teens before they can cross paths with a serial killer riding the rails across the country, leaving a string of murders behind him.

Texas teen Ethan Couch kills four people while drinking and driving and is sentenced only to probation.

A Spanish court convicts 21 people for the Madrid subway train bombings, but acquits a lead suspect and six others.

When Army Pvt. Micah Xavier Johnson is discharged for sexual harassment, he becomes a deadly assassin bent on shooting police during a peaceful protest march.

A drug-fueled killing spree terrorizes a small California town; police believe they are dealing with a serial killer who lives quietly among them.

A meek night-shift nurse finds godlike power by having life-or-death control over hospital patients, serially killing as many as 40.

When the body of 41-year-old Marsha Spicer is discovered in Missouri, police discover her links to an ex-con who had a fantasy to make a snuff film.

A man arrested at his bachelor party says he murdered his friends because his marriage expenses were getting out of control.

After a doctor's wife is found dead in her bathtub, a toxicology report reveals lethal levels of painkillers; at trial, the doctor's dark side comes out.

A relative's traffic violation helps police to find the murderer of a teen girl, 25 years before.

In London, a prim and proper millionaire who leads a double life as an escort begins a deadly relationship with a gambling swindler.

A 23-year-old woman's loyalty to her friend comes at the price of her life, in a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Young co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashes a German airliner into the remote French Alps, killing all 150 passengers aboard.

A soldier claims the fatal shot he fired into the back of his young wife's head was an accident, but prosecutors say he did it intentionally in a fit of jealousy.

When an elderly millionaire is found dead in a freezer, her decades-younger companion is brought up on murder charges; the movie inspired by the story, "Bernie.".

The investigation into the murder of a beloved Florida doctor reveals his dark, secret past.

The survivor of a serial killer's spree tells her story.

In the investigation of the murder of a one-time millionaire, both his ex-wife and his son are suspects.

A new DNA test offers hope to two friends convicted of rape more than 20 years earlier.

Authorities search for the killer of an A-list fashion writer who left her fast-track career and moved to Cape Cod, where she became the town's first murder victim in 30 years.

Investigators question whether designer Gianni Versace was the random victim of a killing spree, or he knew the man who shot him to death.

Terri Gilbert said she didn't know who was coming down the basement steps; she shot and killed him; turned out to be her husband whom she was divorcing; twenty years earlier, she told a similar story, about her first husband.

Penny Scaggs believes in being a dutiful Christian wife and even teaches local women how to build harmonious relationships; she is later found brutally beaten and stabbed beside her beloved yellow piano.

John Harper terrorized his neighbors on Dictionary Hill; he hurled curses, threw stones and drove cars off the road; when local police failed to stop him, one resident took matters, and a pistol, into his own hands.

In New Port Richey, Florida, a sex party has a gruesome ending; on the outskirts of London, England, farmyard animals could hold the key to what's happened to a missing wife.

Two murder cases where the victims are found in parks in New Jersey.

Two murder cases involving cheating spouses with evil minds in Pennsylvania.

A married soldier begins a dangerous affair; a Canadian wife ends a life.

A newlywed wife with a violent ex-husband in Washington State and in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, a Fire Chief wants to extinguish a love rival.