In 2004, the cat-and-mouse hunt for a serial killer targeting Black females antagonizes investigators in Peoria, Ill.
When five people vanish in 1993, cops have zero leads; seven years later, someone connected to the case starts to talk.
In 1995, when a 14-year-old girl in Happy Valley, Washington, goes missing, detectives uncover a grim family secret.
In 2001, in Cortez, Colo., the violent murder of a gay Navajo teenager means two spirits die with him.
For six months in 2014, a serial killer preys upon innocent victims in Los Angeles.
In 1996, a Wyoming college student leaves a dorm party and gets a ride from the wrong classmate, vanishing into the night; police scramble to find her before sunrise.
When the perpetrator of a brutal shooting claims no randomness to his murders, a prosecutor must untangle fact from fiction.
In 2017, a young couple's hope for a happily-ever-after ends in bloodshed, leaving two grandmothers to make sense of unbearable horror and grief.
Lisa Reeves wasn't looking for love when she met Randy Gwathney -- what she got, instead, was bloodshed.
Erika Verdecia's family launches its own search when the 33-year-old goes missing in 2021 and the homegrown investigation uncovers a tragic trail of bloodshed 36 years in the making.
In 1999, when an Idaho woman dies of a suspected drug overdose, the case seems open and shut until her three-year-old daughter gives a chilling statement to police; now, that daughter wants to know why it took police so long to believe her.
In rural Missouri, the body of a young woman lies dead on a deserted dirt road only days before her wedding; while investigating her death, police uncover surprising secrets in her fiancé's life.
In 1984, a police sergeant's 12-year-old daughter goes out to deliver the local paper but doesn't return; an immediate and frantic city-wide search only turns up more questions.
A landlord in Birmingham, Ala., approaches his rental home to inspect a broken window when he suddenly hears a baby crying, but what he discovers inside will haunt two families for the rest of their lives.
After a savage beating that nearly kills a young mother, Omaha investigators learn that she's not the only victim; they launch a relentless search for the killer and quickly realize their most crucial clue might die with their victim.
The murders of two teen girls at a remote and scenic lookout point seem random until police uncover a web of secrets among their network of friends.
A beloved father vanishes.
A mother, desperate to find her daughter, makes a deal with the devil.
After a Valentine's dance in 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker is kidnapped by a man with a gun; for 45 years, the case goes unsolved, and no one knows that the person responsible is living uncomfortably close, hiding in plain sight.
In 1992, when Jenn Drury learns about her father's brutal murder, her first thought is that the cult has something to do with it.
In 2008, a real estate developer finds his glamorous wife Kay Wenal slashed from ear to ear in her Georgia home; with few clues in the case, investigators quickly learn that all is not what it seems in her picture-perfect life.
In 1995, a woman is found raped and murdered in the accounting office where she works; the bloody body of her young daughter is nearby, and police get the shock of their lives as they photograph the scene.
In South Barrington, Ill., a rookie police officer responds to the scene of a what may be an accidental drowning, but a hunch tells him something isn't quite right with the scene.
In 1980, a young woman goes out dancing and never returns home.
A missing woman's uncle prays for her to surface, then comes the rain.
After dominating Lovetta Armstead and her three children, Gary Green commits unspeakable acts.
Surgical patients fall victim to Christopher Duntsch, a monster with a scalpel and a medical degree.
In 2011, a woman surprises her family on Mother's Day.
Featuring the "Shadows of Death" premiere sneak peek.
In 1988 a man is released from jail after a judge deems his murder confession false; for 25 years, a family's hope for justice fades as the killer walks the streets, but one tenacious detective refuses to let this cold case go.
A police officer in Manhattan Beach, Calif., is shot and killed during a routine traffic stop in 1993, and the only witness is a boy who is too terrified to tell police what he saw.
In 2007, a young pregnant woman goes missing in Bethany, Okla., and police unearth secrets and danger as they retrace her last steps.
In 1996, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a young mother is found dead on the side of a rural stretch of highway in an apparent hit-and-run accident; as the family grieves, the façade begins to crack; the truth seeps out.
In 1993, a mother and her 3-year-old son go missing in Jacksonville, Fla.