Episode list

Anthony Hopkins, a preacher in Alabama, has the perfect family until his wife disappears. Secrets then come forward in a story of horror and perversion.

Career criminal Gary Evans is suspected to be behind the disappearance of one of his former associates. After an intense manhunt, Evans is apprehended in Vermont and confesses to a life filled with crime and killing, with five murders to his credit.

Kendall Francois is a john who frequents the Poughkeepsie, NY streets where he lives. For over two years, he picks up and murders eight prostitutes and is only discovered when the would-be ninth victim escapes and reports him to police.

The contract killing of Bruce Firman by Elizabeth Gatenby.

Erin Chorney is missing for over a year. Police suspect her boyfriend but have no evidence. In an elaborate sting operation, police officers convince Chorney's killer to tell them how he strangled her to death.

In 1980, Jamie Kellum kills college friend, Katherine Foster, in a fit of jealous rage. Two decades later, Kellum, now Jamie Letson, tells her AA sponsor of her crimes, leading police to make an arrest in a 20 year old case.

Stacey Castor poisons her first husband with antifreeze and gets away with it. She is only caught after killing her second husband the same way and attempting to murder her daughter and frame her for both deaths.

Police find five bodies of young women, all strangled with a particular slipknot. Eventually they tie Paul Durousseau to the murders through DNA samples, fiber analysis, and phone records from the cab he drove.

On 3/3/1987, Kathy Odom is murdered in her Houston home. Her case grows cold but her father, Frank Martin, refuses to rest until her killer is caught. Nearly 15 years later, the murderer is arrested and the result is anything but relative.

Police find a stolen, blood-stained SUV across from missing Susan McFarland's home. Evidence links both a suspicious man and her husband, Richard, to it. When police finally find Susan's body, they tie it to Richard via a left-behind candy wrapper.

In 1973, Pasadena police receive a phone call from a young man who says he has murdered Dean Corll. In response to the information, police uncover the bodies of 27 boys and learn that Corll's killer was also his accomplice.

California neurologist, Dr. Richard Pryde Boggs, calls paramedics when "myocarditis" claims one of this patients, Melvin Eugene Hanson, while in his office. Hanson had informed friends he has a serious heart condition and recently relocated to be under Dr. Boggs' personal care. On April 16, 1988, when EMT/police arrive at the scene, they become suspicious at once, since this doctor is not a cardiologist, sees the patient unusually early in the morning, should have sent Hanson an ambulance and met him at an ER, rather than advising he drive to an unequipped office. More telling, the body's temperature doesn't coincide with time of death. Many other inconsistencies occur, statements do not check out and protocol is not followed. Thereon, a thorough investigation is launched. It soon is exposed that Melvin Eugene Hanson had a $1.5 million dollar life insurance policy in the name of his partner, John Barrett Hawkins, of Studio 54 fame. The latter positively identified Hanson's body. Also, due to age and "natural cause of death," Hawkins was able to insist on Hanson's quick cremation. Thus, no autopsy can be performed to search for further clues. Therefore, the insurance company must honor their policy and pay Hawkins. Shockingly, though, while inspecting the claim, they rapidly discover through photographs and personal information that the deceased may not even be Hanson, but a "John Doe" victim. If so, where is the real Melvin Eugene Hanson? John Hawkins has now disappeared. How are they connected to Dr. Boggs and why?