Successful Atlanta entrepreneur Lance Herndon usually got what he wanted, but when he is found bludgeoned to death in his waterbed, it appeared he got more than he could handle, possibly due to a business deal gone wrong or a girlfriend's revenge.
When the body of 22-year-old Misty Morse is found floating in the Indian River, police suspect one of her many boyfriends; with only a piece of nautical rope and a strip of duct tape to go on, an unusual kind of DNA could actually break the case.
Ashley Biggs thought it was just another pizza delivery and didn't know who was waiting on the other end; she didn't come back, and police found the delivery address abandoned, with a pool of blood on the ground.
High school football coach Ed Thomas is a legend in Parkersburg, Iowa, mentoring multiple players into the NFL, with kids even having posters of him on their walls. When he is gunned down during an early morning workout, the entire town is shocked.
When an unknown assailant guns down sheriff-elect Derwin Brown shortly after winning his election, investigators suspect a political assassination, only to instead uncover an extensive trail of corruption.
Small-town plumber John Cataneo fixes other people's homes for a living, until death came knocking on his front door; to find out who wanted him dead, police investigate the contents of Cataneo's own home, and get the leak they need.
After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body gets discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.
On the surface, the Carters seemed like a happy family of Iowa farmers, but when they discover Shirley Carter shot to death in her kitchen, the family begins pointing fingers at each other.
Lita McClinton thinks the man at her door is just delivering a dozen pink roses, but the delivery guy delivers death instead; the decades-long hunt for justice spans multiple continents before reaching a dramatic conclusion in an Atlanta courtroom.
What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, Florida ends in blood-soaked violence, leaving a mother of three a quadriplegic. Police find that this seemingly random act may not have been so random after all.
Rosemarie Essa appears to die in a car crash; when police learn this was no more than a low-speed fender bender, they begin to suspect foul play by someone who knew what they were doing.
When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.
When teenager Dennis Lewis is killed fighting off home invaders, all police have to go on is a single handprint; when lab results reveal who the print belongs to, no one wants to believe it.
The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.
Iowa farmer Tom Lyon is excited when a nearby plot of land goes up for sale, but he isn't the only one. When Lyon's body is discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood leads through that very land
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.
When drug-addicted casino owner Ted Binion turns up dead in his mansion, the suspects are pure Vegas: an ex-stripper girlfriend, a contractor who knew where his silver was buried, and a mob boss who launders money through his casino
Bonny Lee Bakley had nine husbands before she meets former `Baretta' star Robert Blake, and he would be her last. As she waits for Blake outside a Los Angeles restaurant, someone approaches her car and shoots her in the head.
The people of Defiance, Iowa USA, find it strange when Scott Shanahan disappears, leaving his wife and kids, but Scott is always unpredictable and no one gives it much more thought.
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.
Millionaire developer Ronald Rudin knew you can’t deal real estate in Las Vegas without making a few enemies. But when his body was found shot, decapitated, and burned in the desert, police had to figure out who wanted him dead the most—his enemies or his friends.
David Coffin’s house burned down with him in it, but it wasn’t the fire that killed him. It was the bullet in his head. Investigators immediately focused on Scott Davis, the estranged husband of Coffin’s new girlfriend. But Davis said that someone had tried to burn down his house that same night. Was Davis spinning tales, or was someone out to get them both?
In 2001, University of South Carolina student Shelton Sanders disappeared while planning a friend’s bachelor party. He was never seen again. When evidence leads to an arrest, however, prosecutors are left with a tall task: how do you prove a murder if you don’t have a body?
Divorce wasn’t enough to end the animosity between James and Linda Cooney. The bitterness continued until Linda shot James dead with a .357 Magnum. She claimed self-defense. The only witness: their 10-year-old son. His testimony would determine his mother’s fate, and his own.
It’s not easy to score a successful song in Nashville—what they called “a bullet.” Sometimes what it takes is a little more than talent and a little less than legal. Kevin Hughes caught a different kind of bullet. 12 years later, investigators uncovered the conspiracy that killed him.