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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.

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.

When Susan Wright's husband, Jeffrey, is found buried in the backyard, stabbed 193 times, people dub her the blue-eyed butcher of the suburbs.

In Green Bay, WI a wife is found drowned in her bath tub; in Melbourne, Australia, an old oil barrel contains a dark secret.

In Peru, IN, greed and lust chip away at a power couple's relationship; in rural Iowa, neighbors are at war.

In Buford, GA, a wife begins a cyber affair which has deadly consequences; in Raleigh, NC, a medical aids researcher suffers unusual medical problems his doctors can't explain.

In Oregon, a karate instructor's affair leads to some killer blows; a millionaire hides a dark secret in England.

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.

Tragedy follows after a young couple argues over the wife's career and the husband's stay-at-home duties.

An Arizona couple can't agree on how to spend their retirement savings, and neither one will budge without getting what they want. But the bickering ends tragically when a hitman shoots the couple's pickup truck right in broad daylight outside a restaurant, killing one of them. The survivor is too distraught to remember many details about the attack, and years go by until police plant a fake story

A series of random killings in Redlands, Calif., leaves police with no clues; the manager of a fast food restaurant finds the ID of one victim in the trash; another ID leads to a suspect.

A killer bursts into a Honolulu conference room and leaves behind seven dead, spreading panic throughout the island.

A woman's ex-husband, wearing a Santa suit, kills nine people at a family Christmas party and sets the house ablaze.

Eighteen years after a teen's murder, there is a DNA match, and police have their killer.

A child's comment leads police to find the remains of nine young women at Fred and Rosemary West's Gloucester, England, home.

Police launch a manhunt after a young woman disappears from the streets of Southampton, England; the victim's parents pursue the killer to get justice.

A self-proclaimed doctor in Florida specializes in buttock enhancements; this medical unprofessional injects tire-sealant, bathtub caulk and liquid cement into her patients, with homicidal consequences.

In Santa Cruz, Calif., police come a cross a series of ritualistic killings; the investigation leads to a self-proclaimed hero who kills to prevent the apocalypse.

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

A troubled Royal Canadian Mountie officer kills one of his own; the son of a Las Vegas judge robs $1.5 million from a casino.

The family of 15-year-old John McCabe work tirelessly to find out how and why he was murdered in 1969.

A successful woman's death at first appears to be a suicide, but after further investigation the police begin to suspect her estranged husband.

Authorities suspect a con man who has used many different identities may be a murderer.

A cell phone video is evidence in a murder trial.

After keeping quiet for years about a teacher's abuse, a former middle-school athlete tries to get the woman to admit to her crimes.

The Jodi Arias conviction.

Secret pictures may reveal clues about a woman's killer.

More than 20 years after an Austin, Texas, musician is found fatally beaten, the wife of a fellow artist says that her husband commited the crime.

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

A teenage girl stops a serial killer in his tracks.

The 25th anniversary of the deadly standoff in Waco, Texas; a retired United Parcel Service driver reveals his experiences with cult leader David Koresh; a former ATF agent tells about his involvement.

Police arrest the man they believe to be the Golden State Killer, who committed at least 50 rapes and 12 murders.

A young man is on trial for the murder of his mother.

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.

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.

A website posts explicit photos without the subjects' permission, then demands payment to remove them; El Chapo runs one of the world's largest drug-trafficking organizations.

The ruler of a drug cartel is responsible for mass murders and billions of dollars in drug trafficking; one of the longest-serving U.S. mayors is accused of running a criminal enterprise.

A drug dealer and cold-blooded murderer's calling card is a grenade; more than $5 million in cash and jewels disappears from an airline's vault.

A battered woman beats her sleeping husband to death; a powerful Chinese leader is sentenced to life in prison.

A Florida billionaire ignores a stop sign, killing the young driver of another car; a celebrity publicist backs her SUV into a crowd of people and flees the scene.

Minutes after Michael Jackson dies, his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, launches a cover-up; a greedy stock trader nearly takes down Wall Street.

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

A good-looking wanderer picks up women in bars and murders them; when a doctor explains how intruders killed his wife and children, something does not add up.

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.

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.

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.

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

Join Court TV's Julia Jenaé as she hosts guests with perspectives and passionate opinions on the day's most compelling trials and true-crime stories.

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

Vinnie Politan takes a deep dive into the true crime stories that are captivating the world over.

A woman turns to a private eye for help tracking down a Russian whom she believes robbed and killed her mother.

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

Vinnie Politan takes a deep dive into the true crime stories that are captivating the world over.