U.S. Coastguardsman Ricky Dale Hemphill and companion Charla Toma set out for a picnic along a river near Brookings, Oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later Ricky is found murdered and Charla is missing.

In November 1986, a snowstorm rips through Connecticut, leaving wife and mother Helle Crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot Richard Crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that Helle had run off with another man.

A week-long search for a missing ten-year-old Indiana girl ends sadly with her body being discovered in a nearby stream. The ensuing investigation puts police through the wringer as they are misled by false confessions and stories of secret meth labs.

Six days into 2004, an unidentified man is found stabbed to death just outside of the booming oil city of Calgary, Alberta.

In 1974, a man identifying himself as the BTK ("Bind, Torture, Kill") Strangler started a killing spree in Kansas spanning the next two decades.

Gerald Gallego, son of a convicted killer, and Charlene Gallego, honor student and musical prodigy, were a match made in hell.

When the body of a local beauty queen is found in a farmer's field near Sydney, Australia, the entire country is riveted. Eyewitness accounts lead them to John, an out-of-control kid leading a notorious gang that terrorized the area.