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True Crime · Mystery · Drama
Sherri Rasmussen, a nursing director and newlywed, was killed at home in 1986. Police pursued burglars while a saliva swab waited in a freezer. Twenty-three years later, the DNA led to an LAPD detective. How did the evidence survive when the investigation failed?
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In 1996, nineteen-year-old Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart vanished after a party. Paul Flores was convicted of her murder in 2022; his father Ruben was acquitted. Three decades after her disappearance, the search continues. Where is Kristin?
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
Natalee Holloway vanished on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. Years later, the man last seen with her demanded money from her mother for information about her remains. What would his 2023 guilty plea finally reveal?
True Crime · Mystery
In 2018, preserved crime-scene DNA and investigative genetic genealogy led detectives to Joseph James DeAngelo, who pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 kidnappings for robbery in 2020. How did a family tree help investigators identify the Golden State Killer and obtain a direct DNA match?
True Crime · Drama
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos at nineteen and left Stanford to pursue hundreds of blood tests from a few drops, building a company valued at $9 billion. As the lab’s machines kept failing behind that promise, how long could the secret hold?
True Crime · Drama · Mystery
On Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant, vanished from her Modesto home. Her husband Scott said he had gone fishing ninety miles away, in a boat almost nobody knew he owned. Four months later the bay gave up its answer. Why had he told another woman he had "lost" his wife?
True Crime · Drama
For eight years millions watched Ruby Franke raise six children on YouTube. In August 2023 her 12-year-old son escaped a counselor's house in the Utah desert, duct tape on his ankles, and asked a neighbor for help. How did the mom who gave parenting advice end up pleading guilty to child abuse?
True Crime · Drama
In 2018, an Arizona mother fell for a man who wrote books about the end of the world. Within a year her husband was shot dead, his wife was dead, and her two youngest children had vanished. She told everyone they were safe. Nine months later, police dug up his backyard.
True Crime · Drama
In June 2002, a man cut a window screen and took 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from the bed beside her little sister. For nine months, volunteers searched from Idaho to Richfield. She was often in plain sight, hidden behind a veil. Her sister remembered a voice. Strangers on State Street remembered a face.
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In the summer of 2021, a 22-year-old from Long Island set off across America in a white camper van with her fiancé, posting the trip for her followers. Weeks later the van came home to Florida without her, and the texts her mother kept getting didn't sound like her daughter at all.
True Crime · Drama
At 5:30 one summer morning in Ohio, a 17-year-old drove her boyfriend and his friend into a brick wall at 100 miles an hour. Both young men died. She says she blacked out and never meant it. The black box says her foot was flat on the gas, and the brake was never touched.
True Crime · Drama
For 86 years, his family ran justice in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Then his wife and son were shot dead at the family kennels. A jury convicted him, a court threw the verdict out, and he has always denied it. Now a new jury will decide what happened at Moselle.
True Crime · Thriller
For ten months, Taylor Parker wore a silicone belly and told everyone in her East Texas town a baby was coming. In October 2020, a trooper pulled her over with a newborn in her lap. The baby wasn't hers. A jury sent her to death row. Her lawyers still say the baby was never born alive.
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In 2016 a young California mother vanished on her morning run. Twenty-two days later she was found on a freeway in chains, branded, saying two masked women had taken her. It took the FBI four years and a discarded tea bottle to learn where she had really been.
True Crime · Drama · Thriller
In 2020 Tim Bliefnick told a game-show host his biggest wedding mistake was saying "I do." In 2023 his estranged wife Becky, a nurse and mother of three, was shot 14 times in her Quincy, Illinois home, days before their divorce trial. So who was riding a blue bicycle past her house at night?
True Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Six people were home on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, one Saturday night in November 2022. By morning four college students were dead, and the only thing the killer left behind was the leather sheath of a knife. What was found on its snap would lead police all the way to Pennsylvania.
True Crime · Drama
Near Albany, New York, more than 16,000 people paid for self-help courses from a soft-spoken man they called Vanguard. Inside, a secret group of women handed over their darkest secrets as collateral and were branded with his initials. In 2019 a jury convicted Keith Raniere on every count. He still says he is innocent.
True Crime · Drama
Texas, 1980. A church-going housewife stops by her best friend's house to pick up a child's swimsuit. That night, the friend is found dead, struck forty-one times with an ax. Candy Montgomery said it was self-defense, and a jury found her not guilty. What happened in the utility room?
True Crime · Thriller
At 6:45 one December morning, a masked gunman shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk and vanished. Five days later, police in a Pennsylvania McDonald's arrested a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate. Now one court has his plea, and another may never get a trial.
True Crime · Drama
In 1989 two rich sons called 911 to say someone had killed their parents. They had done it themselves, and they said their father was the reason. Thirty-seven years later, a parole board must decide: are they monsters, or victims?
True Crime · Thriller · Romance
In 2014 a 59-year-old interior designer met a charming man on a dating site who said he was a doctor, and married him two months later. Her daughter hired an investigator. What she found was worse than a lie... so why couldn't she leave?
True Crime · Drama
For years, a whole town in Missouri believed Gypsy Blanchard was dying, and that her mother was a saint for caring for her. Then her mother was found stabbed, Gypsy was gone, and when police found her 600 miles away, she was walking.
True Crime · Mystery
In a January blizzard, Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dying in the snow outside a colleague's house, and his girlfriend was charged with backing her SUV into him. Two trials and one cracked taillight later, a jury acquitted her of murder. So who do you believe?
True Crime · Drama
In July 2014, Conrad Roy, 18, was found dead in his truck in a Massachusetts parking lot. His phone held thousands of texts from his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, 17. A judge found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Can words alone make you guilty?
True Crime · Thriller
In 1974, young women began vanishing across the Pacific Northwest, and witnesses had only a first name: Ted. Then an 18-year-old fought her way out of his car with a handcuff locked on her wrist and gave police his face. The true story of Ted Bundy's victims, the survivors, and the road to justice.
True Crime · Drama
Betty Broderick worked while Dan became a doctor and a Harvard lawyer. Then he hired a 22-year-old assistant, moved out, and the divorce became a four-year war of fines and court orders. Before dawn on November 5, 1989, Betty let herself into his house with her daughter's key.
True Crime · Thriller
In June 2008, motivational speaker Travis Alexander was found dead in the shower of his home in Mesa, Arizona, and his friends gave police one name: his ex-girlfriend. His camera had been through the wash, but its memory card kept the afternoon he died, minute by minute.
True Crime · Drama
She told New York she was a German heiress with millions abroad, and its hotels, banks and a private-jet company believed her. In 2019 a jury convicted Anna Sorokin on eight counts and acquitted her on two. Seven years later she is still in New York, on an ankle monitor, fighting deportation.
True Crime · Drama · Thriller
In August 2018, Shanann Watts, 15 weeks pregnant, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, vanished from their Colorado home overnight. Her husband Chris stood on the porch and begged on camera: "just come back." So why was his truck backed up to the garage before dawn?
Documentary · True Crime
She was the queen of New York's raw-food scene. Then she met a man on Twitter who called himself Shane Fox. Prosecutors say $2 million vanished, staff went unpaid, and the couple went on the run—until a pizza order gave them away.