The Texas Killing Fields. It's a stretch of interstate from Houston down to the Gulf of Mexico dubbed "Highway to Hell" where dozens of women have gone missing and bodies dumped. When no one cares, these women go unreported and the cases go unsolved.
Life in small town South Texas is simpler. Awful things are not supposed to happen here, but they do. Daughters don't come home and good fathers are ambushed. So, when their faces have faded from the headlines do their cases gone cold go unsolved forever?
Surveillance is life today. Security cameras are supposed to make us feel safe and when unsafe things happen, it can be the key to solving a crime. But when the best video can't ID a murderer, will a case gone cold go unsolved forever?
On Thanksgiving Day 1996, Kristen Wilson was found murdered, naked and possibly raped in her Houston apartment with no sign of the killer. Now, 25 years later, old evidence is being tested for the killer’s DNA - that could be the key to solving Kristen’s
In a follow up to "Unsolved" Season One, the mystery woman known as “Princess Blue” has finally been identified. She’s Julie Davis, a teen last seen in southeast Texas in the mid-eighties. Now that investigators have a name, the hunt is on for her killer.
In 1975, Patricia Kaye Humphreys went to the drive-in movies with her sister and vanished. Her body was found five months later. The 15-year-old had been raped and strangled. Now, police are searching for new leads, trying to solve one of the oldest cold.
Who killed Angela Kelley? The 17-year-old high school senior was found dead on the side of a road in Pasadena, Texas, in 1979. She had been bound with electrical wire and strangled to death. For more than four decades, leads in the case fizzled, and her family and friends have had to live with the pain of not knowing who killed her. Now, old evidence is being retested and for the first time, police are sharing her entire case file - hoping Angela's killer might finally be caught.
On May 13, 1994, Trellis Sykes left her grandmother’s house in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood to walk to school. But the 16-year-old never made it there. Instead, while taking a shortcut through a field of tall weeds, she was hunted down, sexually assaulted and murdered. Someone’s DNA was found on her - but whose? Police say it’s time to try testing that DNA again. Almost three decades later, they’re sharing new details and crime scene photos from the case. Plus, the prison interview with a serial rapist convicted in other attacks in Sunnyside.
She’s known as the “forgotten victim” of the Texas Killing Fields. On November 3, 1989, lawn crews found a 33-year-old newlywed dead under a bridge in League City, Texas. Police determined she had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Her name was Cheryl Martin, and she had a family who never knew what happened to her for 30 years. Now, detectives believe they may have the unlikely murder weapon used to strangle Cheryl. Could it contain the killer’s DNA?
