Interrogation Raw

A small Ohio town is shaken in 2010 when 4 people mysteriously vanish. Investigators find the family's home covered in blood but very few clues.

In 2013 when a beloved Yakima, Washington art teacher, Desiree Sunford, is murdered in her own home, her husband Scott Sunford and a growing list of suspects such as Paige Blades and Marty Grismer face tough questions in the interrogation room.

A man with a dark past is brought into the interrogation room after a woman is murdered and a young girl vanishes. Detectives hope they can keep the man talking long enough so they can obtain clues to help them rescue the girl, in the hopes that she is still alive.

A small Texas town is rocked when a bride-to-be is found brutally murdered just a week before her wedding. Three men, including her fiance, are brought into the interrogation room. Will they provide the answers needed to bring justice for the victim?

A young mother mysteriously vanishes. As Pensacola, Florida investigators untangle a complicated web of friendships and finances, the woman she was last seen with is brought into the interrogation room.

After a woman is killed by her foster daughter, detectives discover new evidence and then confront the victim's husband with difficult questions in an effort to establish whether the foster daughter acted alone in the killing.

Two stories: 1. Pensacola, Florida: A married Navy police officer, Zachary Littleton, is interrogated by investigators after the woman he was having an affair with, Samira "Sammy" Watkins, goes missing on October 31, 2009. Her body was found on November 3, 2009. Littleton went on trial and was found guilty. 2. Newton Falls, Ohio: Major Karl Hoering, age 43, goes missing on March 15, 2007. His wife of a few months, Claudia Hoering, flees to her native country Brazil. Karl's family members work tirelessly with Brazil and they are finally able to get Claudia extradited to the United States in January 2018, almost 11 years after the murder. She goes to trial in January 2019 and is found guilty.

After a U.S. postal employee is shot dead in his truck, detectives push their prime suspect to admit it wasn't just a tragic accident.

A former nursing assistant, Reta Mays, age 46, confessed to using insulin to murder seven elderly patients at a VA hospital and will spend the rest of her life in prison. U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh called Reta Mays a monster of the "worst kind.... you are the monster no one sees coming." He delivered a life sentence for each murder victim, plus 20 years for an eighth victim she tried to kill. Mays is not eligible for probation for the seven life sentences, Kleeh said. She was ordered to pay restitution to the victims' families. The victims ranged in age from 81 to 96 and served in the Army, Navy and Air Force during World War II and wars in Korea and Vietnam. They died at the hands of the same person, at the same place, in the same way.

A man becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation after finding his partner brutally murdered.

Detectives are left stunned by the peculiar behavior of a suspect brought into the interrogation room after a young woman's body parts are discovered in his plumbing and freezer.

After a 20-year-old man is crushed by a truck that fell off its jack, the victim's father is brought in to face questions over whether it was really an accident...or murder.

A man is gunned down outside a local shop and authorities interrogate two of his acquaintances to find out which one of them pulled the trigger. Plus, the shocking interrogation of a woman accused of mowing down two children with her car.

A man's body is found in a wooded area and the victim's neighbor is brought into the interrogation room, where evidence mounts even as he's being interviewed.

Chester, New York, December 18, 2019: A young father, Michael Gregory Partridge, age 28, is brutally beaten and bound with an electrical cord and is left to die on the side of an icy, dark road. After about 20 minutes, a passerby in a vehicle calls 911 and emergency vehicle arrive, but Michael Partridge sadly dies upon arriving at the hospital from blunt force trauma and internal bleeding. Due to discovering revealing text messages, investigators are able to zero in on four suspects: Courtney Clemenza, Seth Pelsang, Timothy Smith and Robert "Bobby" Haskell. The suspects are interrogated separately and the finger-pointing begins. It will be up to the homicide detectives to unravel the truth behind their stories and apprehend the individual or individuals who are responsible for the crime. In the end, all four suspects were arrested due to their various parts in the murder. They were sentenced at different times during 2020 and 2021. Courtney Clemenza, age 33, pleaded guilty to 2nd degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in state prison. Seth Pelsang, age 31, pleaded guilty to 1st degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 9 years in state prison. Timothy Smith, age 37, pleaded guilty to 2nd degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 1 to 4 years in state prison. Bobby Haskell, age 55, the man who inflicted the actual beating with a metal baseball bat, pleaded guilty to 1st degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in state prison.

STORY 1: The first segment details the October 2016 murder of Patricia Ann "Patty" Dresser, age 52, in Greenfield, Indiana. The perpetrator, Spencer Spielman, now age 20, was convicted of her murder in 2017 and was sentenced to 55 years in prison. The motive had been robbery. STORY 2: The second segment details the October 1989 murder of Flora Rundle, age 71, in South Salt Lake/Salt Lake City, Utah. The case went cold for over 20 years before it was reopened by a cold case detective team. DNA was found under her fingernails that tied Gary Dean Hilfiker to her murder. He was located in prison, already serving a separate life sentence for the 1992 murder of his girlfriend, Marsha Haverty, age 38. His parole date for Haverty's murder was fast approaching. In 2014, now at age 56, Gary Hilfiker was sentenced to life in prison for Flora's murder. The motive had been robbery.

February 3, 2007, Waseca County, Minnesota, 3:23 AM: An intruder breaks into the house of husband Tracy Kruger, age 40, wife Hilary Kruger, age 41, and sons Alec Dean Kruger, age 13 and Zac Kruger, age 10. The intruder shoots and kills Tracy Kruger and Alec Kruger and critically wounds Hilary Kruger, who survives the horrific invasion after eight months in two different hospitals. Zac Kruger was not sleeping at home that night, he was staying at a friend's house. Before his death, young Alec Kruger phoned 911 to report the home invasion. Evidence left at the scene prompts detectives to contact Michael Stanley Zabawa, age 24 of Matawan, Byron Township, MN. He is arrested and his trial begins in early 2009. Michael Zabawa is found guilty of the murders of Tracy Kruger and Alec Kruger, and the attempted murder of Hilary Kruger. He is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Law enforcement officials report that he did not show any remorse for his actions. This is also evident in his interrogations seen on this show. In addition to the homicide detectives, both Hilary Kruger and Zac Kruger participated in this installment.

Story 1. Authorities question a woman, Mary Rice, who traveled with a serial killer, Billy Boyette, about whether she was a victim or an accomplice. In 2017, in Florida and surrounding states, Billy Boyette was responsible for the murders of Jacqueline Moore, Alicia Greer, Peggy Broz and Kayla Crocker. Billy committed suicide when he and Mary Rice were apprehended. During her filmed interrogation, Mary lied to the investigator, telling him that she was forced to participate in the crimes. When confronted with the fact that she was caught on multiple surveillance cameras, and that the police knew she was lying, she gradually changed her story. Mary was arrested, convicted of being an accomplice to murder and sentenced to prison. Story 2. Oklahoma, December 2012: This interrogation features Jerrold Murray, who killed Generro Sanchez, age 18, in cold blood. In just a few minutes, Murray boldly admits to killing the college student. Murray was charged with first-degree murder and was found "not guilty by reason of insanity". This injustice lead to a change in Oklahoma law. Under the new Oklahoma law, people who commit crimes associated with mental defects that include an anti-social personality disorder such as sociopath or psychopath, could be found guilty and sentenced to prison.

A prolific serial killer's confession in the murder of a young woman turns out to be a hoax, but decades later, a more likely suspect is ready to talk -- under one condition.