A homicide and its disturbing details devastate a teenager's loving family, leaving a tight-knit community to wonder if their loved one could become the next victim.

After the murder of a young girl walking to school, police race to catch her killer before he can destroy another loving family.

Two 1982 Murders: First murder: On June 25, 1982, Lee Gunsalus Rotatori, a 32-year old woman from Nunica, Michigan, was sexually assaulted and murdered in her hotel room in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Second murder: About July 1982, Thomas Oscar Freeman was murdered in Cobden, Illinois. Lee Rotatori's murder went unsolved for nearly 40 years, until it was announced by authorities in 2022 that the perpetrator has been identified as Thomas Oscar Freeman himself by using investigative genetic genealogy. As of 2022, Freeman's murder remains unsolved and the case remains open. ...

Burley, Idaho, February 1995: When a young girl, 14-year-old Regina "Gina" Krieger, vanishes under mysterious circumstances, police must discover if she simply ran away or was actually the victim of something far more sinister. Her body was found two months later on the banks of the Snake River. For years, the police suspected her father, Dan Krieger, was to blame, but no in-depth investigation was done on the case which want cold for decades before 'heating up' again. Finally, Gilberto Flores Rodriguez was arrested and charged with the murder. In June 2021, he was ...

The murder of a young college student in her off-campus apartment leads police to believe the killer may be someone she knew. and the investigation into the crime threatens to tear her grieving family apart.

Captured on CCTV, a young woman is shot to death on her own driveway in the early morning while setting up for a garage sale.

Two young girls were raised in Louisiana by their grandmother who never told them that their mother had died young at age 23. Years later, the teenage girls, Christine and Donna, found photos of their mother, Mary Scott, who had been living in San Diego, California when they were young. They also learned, through old documents, that their mother had died in San Diego in 1969. Mary had been raped and strangled in her apartment. The original 1969 case went cold, through no fault of investigators. The homicide team worked hard, but in 1969, there was very little to track...

Santee, California, May 2, 1988: Diane Dahn, age 29, was murdered when an intruder came into her apartment. She was stabbed to death in front of her own son Mark, who was age 3. Diane managed to grab a strand of the man's hair, which was put into evidence. The case had stops and starts but basically went cold for 30 years until the hair strand was submitted for DNA testing. There was no match in the Federal CODIS database, but the investigators were able to make a match using forensic genetic genealogy. However, the man who killed her, Warren Robertson, had died in ...

Police must analyze a long, emotional and rage-filled 911 call to see if it was made by by a distraught husband or a killer trying to cover his tracks.