Richard Kananen Sr. abused his wife and three children so badly that no one bothered to report him missing when he disappeared; when his wife Marilyn vanished fifteen years later, it became clear that the evil in their father had been passed down.
A state employee abducts women in Southwestern New Mexico to keep them captive in his homemade torture chamber, the toy box, for years, until one of his victims escapes.
A loving father vanishes without a trace in central California, setting off a feverish missing person's investigation revealing he had been murdered by the woman he used to trust with his life.
A wayward son goes across two states on a shooting spree, killing five people before the police identify him as an ex-con who escaped from a halfway home.
Police search for two missing Florida teens before they can cross paths with a serial killer riding the rails across the country, leaving a string of murders behind him.
The murders of Voncile Smith and her sons John and Richard set Pensacola, Florida on edge; the courts try to decide if this was an occult ritual or something much more basic: greed.
As the saying goes, he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client; in the case of Marc Benayer, who shot a man in his synagogue parking lot, was he a fool or did his mental illness affect whether the jury would find him guilty?
As shocking as the brutal double murder committed by vampire obsessed teenaged Rod Ferrell was, nobody expected him to plead guilty at the start of his trial, leaving just the monumental question of how young is too young for the death penalty.
DNA on one of two teenage girls killed similarly on a California beach six years apart leads investigators to a suspect who worked inside the police department.