When the body of a missing student is discovered in the river near a small college town, the community questions the role law enforcement may have played in his death.
When a beloved member of a tight-knit community is killed, the town cries out for immediate justice; after a young man is sentenced to death for the crime, and an out-of-town lawyer argues they convicted an innocent man.
The murder of a gender-nonconforming Black teenager remains unsolved despite pressure from family and friends - raising issues about the increase of violence, and the lack of justice for trans murder victims across the country.
Years after the body of a young woman is found strangled to death in a creek bed, law enforcement finally closes the case; a closer look raises questions about the investigation.
On a remote island, a dispute between two lobstermen is settled the way islanders do: face-to-face; the conflict turns deadly when one swings an ax - leaving locals to dispute whether the death was self-defense or murder.
The town of Adel, Ga., is rocked by a brutal robbery homicide, and locals quickly point to an outsider as the killer; over 20 years later, new evidence raises the startling question if an innocent man is serving life for another man's crime.
When a beloved chiropractor in Sauquoit, N.Y., dies suddenly under strange circumstances, investigators discover she's been murdered with a rare poison; the killer could only be someone she knew closely, and the case divides the town.
A young woman in St. Augustine, Fla., with everything to live for is found shot to death with the gun belonging to her boyfriend, a deputy sheriff; he says it was suicide, but her family believes it was murder.
In rural Shelbyville, Ky., a body is found in the river; years go by until the police catch the killer, but some in town question if the suspect is even capable of committing the crime.
When a 22-year-old dancer goes missing, the men of the neighboring town who frequented the club she worked at become the suspect pool; wealth and status may protect a killer; a determined police officer works the case.
After a woman is found shot in her bathroom, officials launch a death investigation to determine if it was suicide - as her husband claimed - or murder; years later, the case remains open, and the town still has questions.
A young single mother disappears without a trace; an investigation suggests she abandoned her children, while her family spends years proving she was murdered and finding her killers.
A man claims he shot his daughter's estranged husband, Chirstian Griggs, in self-defense; after investigators close the case, Christian's family discovers evidence that the killing was not justified.
A beloved town doctor perishes in a deadly house fire - which investigators conclude was arson; but after securing a murder conviction, the prosecutor doubts his own evidence, and joins the fight to free an innocent man.
Cold case investigators, looking into a shocking double murder, elicit a series of confessions from a group of teens; years later, the teens recant their statements.
A criminal defense attorney, known for uncovering corruption, finds himself on trial; accused of a complex murder-for-hire plot, along with eight others, he fights to clear his name and show the many holes in the state's case.
A couple is found brutally murdered in their home; investigators learn that the last person to see them alive had secrets of his own; some question whether prejudice led police to arrest the wrong man.
A dentist is brazenly killed by a masked gunman; the media reports salacious details as investigators uncover a sinister plot led by the dentist's wife and stepson; a private investigator shares a startling alternate theory.