The brutal assault on 78-year-old real estate agent Vernon Holbrook revealed a web of deceit, betrayal, and greed.

 The cold-blooded execution of Colorado mother Dianne Hood led to a sordid conspiracy of sex and religious manipulation.

A body in a burning car in a California canyon led authorities to a vicious betrayal and murder plot.

The slaying of a farmer, Ernest Luttrell, led investigators to a home-grown conspiracy involving his family. 

Roxanne Fricke, a loving mother of a baby boy, went out for groceries and never returned. That was all part of a deadly plan.

A $360,000 life insurance policy put a price on devoted single dad Wayne Cappelli's life. 

Why would the Smith siblings conspire to kill their sister, Gail Smith? A murder case leads investigators to a $750,000 motive.

A savage murder and a $1 million fraud lead investigators to a Seattle retirement residence and a cold-blooded con woman.

A Los Angeles prosecutor, Jose Garza, became the target of a murder plot hatched by the person he’d never suspect. 

Serial killer Richard Beasley preyed upon vulnerable men who became his victims. Another became his accomplice.