2024-08-17
The case of Shannon Mohr is related. In 1980, the Michigan woman died in what appeared to be a horseback-riding accident. However, further tests revealed that she died from a drug that causes suffocation. In 1989, her husband was convicted of murder. (Repeat).
An overview of the James Randall case. For 15 months in Florida, the alleged serial killer preyed on women, taunting police by leaving his victims' bodies in plain sight. The muddy imprint left by his truck, which used rare tires, eventually led investigators to him. (Repeat).
The case of elderly farming couple Aaron and Faye Copeland is related. They were convicted and sentenced to death for a bizarre scheme that involved bad checks, cattle auctions and the murders of five drifters. (Repeat).
The process of identifying a skull recovered from a watery grave is detailed. Although the killer removed his victim's teeth, police were able to establish her identity and hone in on a suspect. (Repeat).
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The case of John Schneeberger is related. The Saskatchewan doctor was accused of sexually assaulting female patients. Although initial DNA tests cleared him, he later admitted to circumventing the testing by inserting a plastic tube filled with another man's blood into his arm. It was a private detective, hired by one of Schneeberger's patients seven years later, who uncovered the ruse. (Repeat).
The case of would-be serial killer Jason Massey, who wanted to become like his idols Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Abbott, is related. In 1993, the 21-year-old was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for murdering two teenagers. (Repeat).
The case of Fred Grabbe is detailed. In 1981, his wife Charlotte disappeared; three years later, police charged him with murder. His girlfriend testified against him in court, claiming that they burned his wife's body beneath a maple tree. Two scientists were able to verify her story, producing physical evidence from the tree to back up her claim. (Repeat).
The case of Susie Mowbry is detailed. Although she was convicted of murdering her husband, her son believed her story that his financially troubled stepfather had committed suicide. The son enrolled in law school and began studying the case, learning that prosecutors withheld crucial findings by a nationally respected blood-spatter expert. After serving almost 10 years, Mowbry was given a second t
The treatment for an injured hand leads to a murder charge in this look at the Elwood Jones case. Jones claimed he cut his hand on a dumpster, but his doctor recognized the wound as a "fight bite." The doctor was the main witness at Jones' murder trial, during which Jones was convicted of killing a 67-year-old woman. (Repeat).
Stories from across the world and refreshing conversations. (New).
Stories from across the world and refreshing conversations. (New).
The death of a young mother is investigated. (Repeat).
The murder of a gay student is investigated. (Repeat).
A pediatric eye doctor is stabbed in Tucson; a terrorist plot is uncovered in New York's Times Square. (Repeat).
A college student is assaulted at a party; a first-generation immigrant mysteriously vanishes. (Repeat).
A series featuring behind-the-scenes looks at criminal investigations. First up: A mentally ill mother is murdered. (Repeat).
A well-known Ivy League professor's wife is killed; a Phoenix postman is accused of murder. (Repeat).
A woman discovers that her husband is a polygamist and con artist; a man's wife turns up dead. (Repeat).
The story of the Mitchell brothers is related. Renowned pornographers, Artie and Jim engaged in a fierce sibling rivalry that ended when Artie was shot three times, including a fatal wound to his head. Investigators relied upon a 911 call, during which shots could be heard, and computer animation to reconstruct what happened. Jim was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to six y
The murder of a female prison guard leads police to suspect inmates at the facility, but the discovery of a "signature" element enables them to focus their investigation on two prisoners. (Repeat).
The disappearance of a 9-year-old girl leads police to suspect her father, Brad Jackson, of murdering her. They plant global positioning devices on his vehicles and track him via satellite. Unknowingly, he leads them to the site where he buried her body. (Repeat).
The brutal assault of a Maine state trooper is connected to an 8-month-old murder case in New Jersey by the "signature" the alleged killer, Steven Fortin, used in both crimes. (Repeat).
The disappearance of 19-year-old Lori Auker leaves police stumped due to the poor quality of a surveillance tape. With help from NASA, however, digital imaging was employed to clean up the video; later, three hairs that belonged to her cat were found in a suspect's trunk, leading to his arrest and eventual conviction. (Repeat).
The apparent suicide of a Michigan woman, who died from a gunshot wound to the head, is investigated. (Repeat).
A woman searches for the individual who injured her daughter in an accident. (Repeat).
The case of Caleb Fairley is detailed. After a woman and her daughter disappeared, forensic evidence pointed to the 23-year-old. He eventually was convicted of a double homicide and sentenced to life in prison. (Repeat).
The death of Walter Scott, better known as Walter Notheis Jr., lead singer for the 1960s band Bob Kuban and the In-Men, is detailed. He disappeared In 1983. The husband of a woman Scott was involved with was later arrested and convicted of murdering both Scott and his unfaithful wife. (Repeat).
An examination of an unusual case in Texas involving the 1988 rape and murder of a pizza-parlor employee. After a suspect confessed, and he and an alleged accomplice were imprisoned, the case was considered closed. Eight years later, however, another man confessed to the same crime---and DNA evidence cleared the first suspect while implicating that the second was, in fact, guilty. (Repeat).
A look back at a trio of unsolved murders that occurred in Wichita Falls, Texas, during the 1980s details how a fourth murder from the same time period provided the police with more than they realized. John Little, an investigator for the DA's office, picked up the cold cases years later. He soon connected the fourth crime's confessed killer, Faryion Wardrip, to the other murders. (Repeat).
A chronicle of how a single hair helped the police identify where a murder victim pulled from the river had been, and how it helped lead to the killer. (Repeat).
An examination of the Crystal Faye Todd case. In 1991, the 17-year-old was brutally murdered in Horry County, South Carolina. The police asked 52 male acquaintances to provide blood samples so that they could compare the DNA to semen found at the murder scene. The process eliminated all but one young man---and he's now serving a life sentence. (Repeat).
An examination of the first time animal DNA was used to solve a criminal case. In 1994 Canada, on Prince Edward Island, the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife was discovered. Authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents, with whom he lived. Scientists estimated that chances that the hairs came from another feline were one in 50 million. A jury later
An outbreak of food poisoning in 1984 Oregon leads authorities to a religious cult. (Repeat).
A woman's death is investigated. The husband claims it was suicide; but the police suspect otherwise. (Repeat).
The disappearance of a 9-year-old girl leads police to suspect her father, Brad Jackson, of murdering her. They plant global positioning devices on his vehicles and track him via satellite. Unknowingly, he leads them to the site where he buried her body. (Repeat).
The brutal assault of a Maine state trooper is connected to an 8-month-old murder case in New Jersey by the "signature" the alleged killer, Steven Fortin, used in both crimes. (Repeat).
The disappearance of 19-year-old Lori Auker leaves police stumped due to the poor quality of a surveillance tape. With help from NASA, however, digital imaging was employed to clean up the video; later, three hairs that belonged to her cat were found in a suspect's trunk, leading to his arrest and eventual conviction. (Repeat).
The apparent suicide of a Michigan woman, who died from a gunshot wound to the head, is investigated. (Repeat).