When a celebration starts to sour, tempers flare and someone vanishes. Days later, a body is discovered in an unsavory part of a Northern California town. When the case goes cold, it will take a most unexpected plea to finally catch a killer.
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Gambling With Death
S1/EP9
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Aired: 03/22/2020
An evening at a Mississippi casino turns into a nightmare when a beautiful wife and mother is abducted. When investigators uncover some startling truths the suspects are countless. But it's a shocking twist that finally leads to an unexpected arrest.
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Murder in The Heartland
S1/EP8
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Aired: 03/15/2020
After a night shift, an Indiana college student heads home. Hours later, and a mile away, her car is found abandoned. And when two horrifying discoveries are soon made, investigators wonder if they're dealing with a small town serial killer.
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Smokey Mountain Murders
S1/EP7
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Aired: 03/08/2020
It's quitting time in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and a group of fellas bellies up to a local bar. But when moods shift, someone will wind up dead. And when another local mysteriously goes missing, neighbors fear a killer is hiding among them.
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Party Crashers
S1/EP6
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Aired: 03/01/2020
Some college buddies crash a party in an idyllic Southern California town. But when alcohol flows and jealousy rages, the night turns deadly. The case goes cold for more than a decade before the truth is finally uncovered and justice is served.
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Mother's Day Murder
S1/EP5
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Aired: 02/23/2020
A rowdy night out at a Chicago pub turns deadly when daybreak reveals a mutilated body. Police cross state lines as they try to track a killer, but it will take an unexpected call and a brutal betrayal to finally solve this case and find justice.
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S1/EP10
Detectives pressed Mark Hensley on what he saw and heard the night Kathleen Noble was murdered. After a sound check, they were sure he must have heard something, either during the murder or when the killer cleaned the scene.
S1/EP10
As police probed Kathleen Noble's murder, they looked at her roommate and co-worker Mark Hensley. He was a longer who had had several brushes with the law involving theft. One witness said he was afraid of Hensley.
S1/EP10
Kathleen Noble's apartment had been scrubbed, but luminol revealed many traces of blood. Her mattress had also been turned over. A home invader would not likely have gone to such lengths to clean the scene.
S1/EP10
Police interviewed Kathleen Noble's roommate Mark Hensley. He claimed to have heard Kathleen arguing with a man in her bedroom, but he couldn't be sure who it was.
S1/EP10
Forensic investigators examined Kathleen Noble's apartment, finding blood on her bed, on the floor and leading out of the apartment. It appeared she had been dragged off the bed and out the front door.
S1/EP10
In East Palo Alto, officers responded to an abandoned vehicle. A foul odor emanated, and underneath a blanket they found Kathleen Noble's body. She had been missing for days and her body had likely been there for a while.
S1/EP9
Police interviewed Gerald Powers, who claimed to have had nothing to do with Shannon Sanderson's disappearance. They spoke with a friend, who told him she agreed to be his alibi, as a joke, as long as "he didn't kill anybody."
S1/EP9
Shannon Sanderson's son said he was relieved when Gerald Powers was sentenced in 1998 for her murder. Powers has remained on death row for 20 years.
S1/EP9
Gerald Powers had been convicted of robbing three women previously. Detectives believed he had learned from his mistakes and killed Shannon Sanderson to keep her from being a witness. He may have been on his way to becoming a serial killer, they believed.
S1/EP9
Shannon Sanderson was last seen in a black dress and high-heels, with fake pink fingernails. Investigators found one nail on the ground by her car, and a witness claimed to have seen her being stuffed into the back of another vehicle.
S1/EP8
Michael Overstreet remains on death row because of mental incompetency. Kelly Eckart's mother even said she can tell he is "suffering inside his own mind," and that he can't be executed if he doesn't know why it's happening.
S1/EP8
A Franklin Walmart employee recalls getting on the intercom to inform store employees that Michael Overstreet had been found guilty of all charges. The whole store cheered. There was a sense of relief in the community that the case had been solved.
S1/EP8
Authorities identified Kelly Eckart using dental records. She had been strangled with her overalls straps and suffered a nonfatal bullet wound to the head. She had also been sexually assaulted, and authorities got some DNA from her.