The wounds California nurse Sherri Rasmussen suffered in her final moments of life were "extensive and disturbing," but it would take more than two decades to reveal the surprising killer.
Solving this decades-old cold case took one woman's courageous choice to come forward, advances in DNA technology, and some chilling words from the killer himself.
Bob and Jane Bashara had a seemingly idyllic life in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, until Jane was found dead and her husband's secret life and dark fantasies were exposed.
Casino magnate Ted Binion was found dead in his home in 1998 surrounded by heroin and drug paraphernalia, but investigators began to suspect that his death may have had more sinister origins.
“Clues at the crime scene seemed to point in one direction. The twist that came next was one this town would never forget," Dateline Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz said of the shocking murder of Sonya Ivanoff.