When body parts wash ashore in the Gulf Coast over several days in 2012, investigators must identify the victim before they can find the killers. Even then, justice is elusive.
In 1977, Pittsburgh is gripped by fear as a string of brutal attacks sends detectives hunting the "shotgun slayer," a killer who invades homes at night and strikes with a shotgun, knives, and hammers.
In 1990, 18-year-old Berit Beck disappears while driving to a job conference in Wisconsin. When her van-and later her body-are found, the mystery of what happened inside that van lingers for decades.
Six people are killed in a home in a quiet Iowa town, and one survivor shot in the head claims no memory of the attack. The tragedy-and the trial that follows-tears the neighborhood apart.
6. Driven to Kill: The Twisted Plot to Murder a Florida Doctor
In a serene community, a beloved doctor is bludgeoned in her own home. Investigators uncover a conspiracy that rocks the close-knit neighborhood to its core.
When a man disappears from a Sacramento boarding house in 1988, the search uncovers one of the city's most shocking cases-and reveals a grandmotherly-looking serial killer hiding in plain sight.
8. A Mother's Nightmare: The Desperate Search for Cupcake
Three-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney is abducted while playing outside a relative's Birmingham home. The massive search that follows unites the city as residents pray she'll be found alive.
