People Magazine Investigates

In 1969, a woman is found murdered in Los Angeles, but her identity is a mystery. For decades police investigate hoping to put a name to the face and find her killer. The one lead that comes up over and over? Charles Manson and the Manson Family.

On a back road in Mississippi, a popular 19-year-old girl is set on fire and left to burn alive. Her last words lead detectives down a road of dead ends and the case goes cold until a special agent taps into her location data and finds a suspect.

Gallaudet University is America's premier college for the deaf, but this haven for higher learning is turned upside down when two students are murdered in their dorm rooms. Investigators dive into campus life and reveal a serial killer in the making.

In 1992, a 19-year-old woman is brutally assaulted outside of Desert Hot Springs, California. Miraculously she escapes, but lives in constant fear that he will find her again one day. What the victim doesn't realize is she survived a serial killer.

In the summer of 2000, panic overwhelms the Bay Area when bags full of body parts start appearing all over the region. Investigators follow the trail of grisly clues and it leads to the discovery of a secret cult carrying out a sinister scheme.

In the fall of 1977, a Philadelphia woman goes missing. The police finally uncover the horrific truth about the woman's whereabouts. But capturing the killer proves even more difficult, as he manages to always stay one step ahead of the law.

In 1969 race riots in York, PA, claim two lives - an African-American mother of two and a young, white police officer. Their deaths are largely forgotten until 30 years later, when their cold cases are reopened, revealing the city's dark past.

A celebratory night turns deadly for the Whitaker family when they are gunned down at home. When investigators uncover a conspiracy, it will test one man's ability to forgive as he fights to save the criminal mastermind from the death penalty.

When three women from three different decades meet their death or go missing under mysterious circumstances, authorities are forced to examine the one thing they had in common: they all fell in love with the same man.

In the summer of 1980, a popular teen goes for a run around her hometown in Maine. Days later, her savagely beaten body is found. But what happened remains a mystery for years, until her mother intervenes and forces police to reexamine the case.

The morning of his anniversary, Mike Williams goes duck hunting. When he fails to return home that afternoon, an all-out search commences. But it's only the beginning of a sordid mystery that will take close to 20 years to solve.

In 2002 a 12-year-old girl from Oregon City, OR goes missing on her way to school and the whole town is clamoring to find her. The police investigation offers little in the way of leads, and then the unthinkable happens - a second girl disappears.

When an 11-year-old Arizona girl vanishes while waiting for an ice cream truck, it's clear she's been abducted. The search for her leads to a trail of suspects, making it the largest missing child investigation in Arizona history.

In 1998, a gifted Philadelphia graduate student is found murdered in her bed. The hunt for her killer forces police to reevaluate a series of unsolved crimes, turning the city upside down. Will her killer be caught or will he strike again?

A fire chief's wife is found burnt to death in her home. An autopsy reveals the cause of death was not the fire, but a gunshot to the head, shocking this small Louisiana town. This arson turned homicide leaves a killer to be found.