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8 episodes · 3 free · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.