In the peaceful village of Essex Junction, Vermont, Michael Durenleau's life is cut short with a knife through the heart in the darkness behind Veronica's Tavern after celebratory drinks with his wife Rebecca.
More than a decade after Florida State Law professor Dan Markel was gunned down by two Miami hitmen, his former mother-in-law, Donna Adelson, is accused of plotting the murder; her son Charlie and his girlfriend have already been convicted, but prosecutors believe Donna was calling the shots; will the family matriarch and doting grandmother be able to convince the jury she had nothing to do with executing her son-in-law?
Once prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh's life begins to unravel after the murder of his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul; the murders kick off an investigation that uncovered years of drug abuse, theft of millions of dollars and an abuse of power bringing down a Lowcountry legal dynasty.
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.
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.
In a case that shocked the nation, a mother and son stand trial for the unthinkable; Shanda Vander Ark, once a promising law clerk, now faces murder charges in the death of her own child.
What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, Fla., 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.
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.