Saturday

Dr. Dale Cavaness is revered in his hometown of Eldorado, Illinois, but when his 22-year-old son is slain execution-style, authorities find that the good doctor has some skeletons in the closet. Dr. Dale has had not one, but two sons die by gun shot at the same age. Is this coincidence, or is there a sinister force intent on killing off the Cavaness sons?

A motel housekeeper in Oakley, Kansas, discovers the body of her co- worker, Alice Pepperl. The room lacks hard evidence to point to any one suspect, but a special coin taken from the cash registered could be all it takes. Even after a suspect confesses, the question of responsibility looms over the town.

Some of the best clues come from the least likely places. Baffling crimes have been solved and criminals betrayed through evidence provided by insects, beer bottles, and other seemingly meaningless objects.

They know as much about crime as any crime fighter, or any criminal. They’re the crime writers, and through their eyes we see murder most foul. Combining perspectives of law enforcement, felons, and journalism, crime writers provide us with as near a first-person account as possible.

A good coroner provides what’s necessary to solve a crime. A bad one can spoil an otherwise rock-solid case. Cyril wecht and henry lee, two of the country’s most respected coroners, share their cases and insights into crime solving.

The solution to the most heinous crimes often hinge on the smallest of clues. Investigators must have their eyes trained to find the full story of a murder written in a single scrap of evidence.

They say that a burden shared is a burden halved, but when partners team up to commit murder, the weight of their guilt remains just as heavy. Investigators must rely on forensic science to capture partners in crime.

After ingested Excedrin pills lead to a string of mysterious deaths around the city, investigators uncover a dubious murder plot behind it all revolving around insurance policies as the killer is finally caught years after

When a married woman falls for another married man that was contracted to build her house, she’s found murdered days before her divorce is finalized, and it takes five long years to discover the killer overseas in an odd love triangle.

A young Jackson, Michigan police officer investigates a missing woman and finds that her husband has just had brain surgery and is acting strangely. When the officer follows his instincts and inspects the couple’s restaurant, he finds their kitchen has a become a slaughterhouse. But who could be responsible for such atrocity?

When Erin Chorney disappears with a trace suspicion falls on the last person to have seen her, her ex-boyfriend Michael Bridges. After investigator searches come up empty handed, they orchestrate an elaborate Mr. Big sting operation to woo Bridges into

Lois Riess was a gambling addict who would do anything to feed her habit..even murder. On the run with a stolen identity, police had their work cut out to apprehend America’s most wanted granny.

Ben Lacomba thought if his wife’s body was never found, he could never be found guilty of her murder. Detectives would pour all their resources into the case to ensure he was wrong.

Lisa and Thomas Infante were childhood sweethearts who grew up on the same street. It seemed inevitable they would end up together. But their marriage was volatile, their family life marred by angry outbursts. And when one of them found love elsewhere, the consequences would be fatal.

The women in Malcolm Webster’s life seemed prone to terrible bad luck. One died in a freak car crash. Another suffered a mysterious illness that left her sleepy and confused. A third, a keen sailor, found her life jacket punctured. How long before police realised this was more than a coincidence?

When Jennifer Cave fails to show up at her new job, her family fears the worst. Unfortunately, their fears are confirmed when they take their search for her into their own hands.

Prominent community leaders from a metro Washington D.C. neighborhood are murdered when they answer a knock at their front door.

Florida v. Euri Jenkins. Makeva Jenkins seemed to have it all. A successful businesswoman and mother of three, she boasted on Facebook that she had grown her business to six figures. But just hours later, she was shot dead with a bullet to the head. Her husband, Euri Jenkins, told police a masked intruder had shot and killed his wife. Her close-knit family held a press conference, pleading for information about her killer. But the tale of the happy family fell apart when police arrested her husband in a murder-for-hire plot. Detectives also arrested 19-year-old Joevan Joseph, who told investigators Jenkins had hired him to kill his wife for the life insurance money.

Ohio v. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey. In the spring of 1993, two newspaper carriers driving down a rural road spotted what they thought was a doll but which turned out to be, in fact, a newborn baby's body. The coroner would determine that the baby had been born alive; but his origin was a mystery. The community called the baby Geauga's Child, after the name of the county; they made clothes for his funeral and paid for his burial. Despite dozens of leads and even a hidden camera placed at the cemetery in hopes that the child's mother would show up, no arrests were made for 25 years. Then, with modern DNA and familial genealogy techniques, the cold case was solved, identifying the boy's mother as the now middle-aged Gail Eastwood-Ritchey. Years before, as a young unmarried woman, she had delivered the baby, stillborn, and placed his body in a trash bag in a wooded area. After a four-day trial, Eastwood-Richey was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

Firefighter Bob Poynter thought he was heading for a reconciliation meeting with the wife he knew was a serial cheater. In fact, Chacey Poynter had lined up one of her lovers to kill the man who had said he wanted a divorce. Chacey had done the Math. A prenup meant Divorce was worth a lot less money than the Insurance pay-out in the event Bob died. To her the equation was simple.