2009

S25.E1 ∙ From Zero to Murder

Sat, Sep 03, 2022

Police investigating the brutal murder of a young woman ask themselves a chilling question: Was the ambush style shooting that ended the victim's life actually a terrifying case of mistaken identity?

7.6 /10

S25.E2 ∙ Jenny's Story

Sat, Sep 10, 2022

A homicide and its disturbing details devastate a teenager's loving family, leaving a tight-knit community to wonder if their loved one could become the next victim.

7.7 /10

S25.E3 ∙ Graduation to Murder

Sat, Sep 17, 2022

After the murder of a young girl walking to school, police race to catch her killer before he can destroy another loving family.

8.1 /10

S25.E4 ∙ Mystery in Coachella Valley

Sat, Sep 24, 2022

Indio, California, Desert Star Ranch: Horse ranch owner Wendi Brant, age 45, was murdered on August 10, 1998 in a brutal assault in which she struggled with her killer. Her body was found later the same day. Police focus on her estranged husband, William I. Hillman, but there are other potential suspects that complicate the investigation and throw the case into a decades-long cold case.

0 /10

S25.E5 ∙ Room 106

Sat, Oct 01, 2022

Two 1982 Murders: First murder: On June 25, 1982, Lee Gunsalus Rotatori, a 32-year old woman from Nunica, Michigan, was sexually assaulted and murdered in her hotel room in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Second murder: About July 1982, Thomas Oscar Freeman was murdered in Cobden, Illinois. Lee Rotatori's murder went unsolved for nearly 40 years, until it was announced by authorities in 2022 that the perpetrator has been identified as Thomas Oscar Freeman himself by using investigative genetic genealogy. As of 2022, Freeman's murder remains unsolved and the case remains open. Investigators believe the two murders are connected.

7.1 /10

S25.E6 ∙ Changing Stories

Sat, Oct 08, 2022

Burley, Idaho, February 1995: When a young girl, 14-year-old Regina "Gina" Krieger, vanishes under mysterious circumstances, police must discover if she simply ran away or was actually the victim of something far more sinister. Her body was found two months later on the banks of the Snake River. For years, the police suspected her father, Dan Krieger, was to blame, but no in-depth investigation was done on the case which want cold for decades before 'heating up' again. Finally, Gilberto Flores Rodriguez was arrested and charged with the murder. In June 2021, he was sentenced to life in prison. Cody Thompson was a witness who was already behind bars for a different crime.

8.3 /10

S25.E7 ∙ The Year of Fear

Sat, Oct 15, 2022

The murder of a young college student in her off-campus apartment leads police to believe the killer may be someone she knew. and the investigation into the crime threatens to tear her grieving family apart.

6.8 /10

S25.E8 ∙ A Fairy Tale Ruined

Sat, Oct 29, 2022

Captured on CCTV, a young woman is shot to death on her own driveway in the early morning while setting up for a garage sale.

7.4 /10

S25.E9 ∙ Unthinkable Betrayal

Sat, Nov 12, 2022

On September 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, age 15 and his brother Tim, age 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police. The boys were told that their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill where the killer had entered. They questioned a slew of suspects, but no one was charged, and the case went cold for 40 years. Prior to, and after Linda Slaten's murder, Tim's football coach, Joe Mills, would regularly drive Tim to and from football practice. Coach Joe became a role model for the young boy, who proudly hung up his football team photo in his room. In the photo, Coach Mills stood right behind Tim. Linda's sons spent decades living in fear of the man they called "The Monster". Nearly 40 years later, advances in DNA technology revealed Linda Slaten's likely killer: Coach Joe. "I looked up to this guy," Tim tells "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod. "And I had a picture in my house ever since then, and never knew it was him." "He's a cold-hearted monster, that's for sure," says Jeff.

7.9 /10

S25.E10 ∙ A Call for Answers

Sat, Nov 19, 2022

After police responders find a young mother who had been ruthlessly bound and murdered in her own bedroom, her family members challenge the team of homicide detectives to bring a heartless and cold killer to justice for the sake of the victim.

0 /10

S25.E11 ∙ The Mother She Never Knew

Sat, Nov 05, 2022

Two young girls were raised in Louisiana by their grandmother who never told them that their mother had died young at age 23. Years later, the teenage girls, Christine and Donna, found photos of their mother, Mary Scott, who had been living in San Diego, California when they were young. They also learned, through old documents, that their mother had died in San Diego in 1969. Mary had been raped and strangled in her apartment. The original 1969 case went cold, through no fault of investigators. The homicide team worked hard, but in 1969, there was very little to track the culprit with. It was not until advent of genetic genealogy forensics that the investigative team in San Diego could zero in on a killer. On October 24, 2020, 75-year-old John Sipos was arrested, charged with the crime and found guilty.

0 /10

S25.E12 ∙ A Bad Man Hurt Mommy

Sat, Dec 03, 2022

Santee, California, May 2, 1988: Diane Dahn, age 29, was murdered when an intruder came into her apartment. She was stabbed to death in front of her own son Mark, who was age 3. Diane managed to grab a strand of the man's hair, which was put into evidence. The case had stops and starts but basically went cold for 30 years until the hair strand was submitted for DNA testing. There was no match in the Federal CODIS database, but the investigators were able to make a match using forensic genetic genealogy. However, the man who killed her, Warren Robertson, had died in Indiana in 1999.

0 /10

S25.E13 ∙ Blood-Stained Reputation

Sat, Dec 10, 2022

Police must analyze a long, emotional and rage-filled 911 call to see if it was made by by a distraught husband or a killer trying to cover his tracks.

0 /10

S25.E14 ∙ New Year's Eve Nightmare

Sat, Dec 17, 2022

Pensacola, Florida: Shortly before 5:00 AM on January 1, 1985, Tonya Marie Ethridge McKinley, age 23, is found dead on the roadside. She is identified by the contents of her purse. Law enforcement homicide detectives are unable to solve the case in 1985, but they have the foresight to collect biological evidence from the victim and from a bloody towel left at the scene. The case goes cold for over 30 years until forensic genetic genealogy matches the evidence DNA to Daniel Leonard Wells, who is now age 57, of Pensacola. He is arrested and confesses to the murder, but within 24 hours, he commits suicide in his jail cell.

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S25.E15 ∙ Disconnected Story

Sat, Dec 31, 2022

The police must identify the killer of a young mother based only on her frantic words in a disconnected 911 call.

0 /10

S25.E16 ∙ Confessions and Lies

Sat, Jan 07, 2023

The investigation of the 1981 brutal murder of Sylvia Quayle in Cherry Hills Village, CO, forces police to challenge both confessions and lies.

0 /10

S25.E17 ∙ Pretty Pink Bicycle

Sat, Jan 14, 2023

Vicki Lynne Hoskinson, age 8, disappeared on September 17, 1984 in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona while riding her pink-colored bicycle a few blocks to mail a birthday card to her aunt. She had been abducted by a stranger, Frank Atwood. The tip to police that cracked the case was when a physical education teacher, Sam Hall, provided Atwood's license plate number to the investigators. The day before the murder, the teacher had noticed that a man was watching school children. This made the teacher uneasy and he jotted down Atwood's Datsun 280Z vehicle's license plate number and watched the stranger until he left the school area. This valuable information led to the arrest of Frank Jarvis Atwood, age 28, from Los Angeles, who was on parole at the time. Atwood had a long history of sexual assaults against children. Atwood was arrested and convicted of Vicki's murder and was sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection on June 8, 2022. Seven months after Vicki's abduction, her partial remains were found by a hiker in a desert area 20 miles from her home.

0 /10