Death Of The Party

After a night of partying, a young California woman disappears. The police and her parents scour the area around her abandoned car, but there is no trace of Denise. Everyone is a suspect. Three long years pass without a single clue to the mystery. The odds are long for justice. But a killer will find he's made a losing bet.

Jessie Blodgett is a social justice activist with dreams of changing the world through music, and her career as an artist is just getting started. She wins the title role in the Hartford Players adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof and enjoys the cast after-party the opening weekend of the performance. But little does Jessie know this will be her final show, and the last party she ever attends.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, Katie Sepich is out for a party with friends before the new school year starts up. A fight with her boyfriend leads to Katie walking home alone, only to be found in a landfill the next day, dead. With Katie's family believing DNA is best way to find the killer, they campaign to change the laws around when DNA can be collected.

When authorities attend to a burning truck in Beer Can Alley in Algona, Iowa, they're met with a disturbing scene. This was no mechanical failure, this truck was purposely set on fire with someone in the backseat. Police race to put together the chain of events and find the killer that could be a resident of this small town, and might strike again

Recent high-school graduate Bobby Tillman celebrates a friends' good grades at a house party, but news of the gathering spreads across social media, and gets out of control. When a fight breaks out the party is shut down and the street is flooded with angry teens. In the chaos Bobby Tillman is beaten to death by a group of boys he has never met. But despite dozens of witnesses, police and the family wonder who will do the right thing and identify who was involved

Retired Navy veteran Raul Mendoza goes out to play poker with friends, but when his car is found abandoned on the streets of Houston with the doors open, his family immediately fears the worst. Police pit one suspect against another to find out what happened to Raul.

When 22-year-old Chelsea Bruck goes to an annual dress-up outdoor party with friends, she is never seen or heard from again. With her phone left with her friends, authorities have little to go on. Articles of her clothing are initially found in the surrounding area, then her body is located by a construction crew. Extensive DNA evidence is collected along with hundreds of interviews of party goers in order to unmask the killer in a field of costumes.

When Laura Dickinson, an otherwise healthy young woman, dies suddenly in her Eastern Michigan University dorm room, her friends, family, and campus grieve her loss. But while administration officials push the narrative that her death is due to a heart attack, behind the scenes, they treat it as suspicious and launch a covert investigation into her murder. Who killed Laura, and why is the university covering it up?

Brittany Tavar and a new friend attend a block party in her upscale Florida neighborhood. She's nervous about her court date the next morning to get a protection order against a neighbor. But Brittany never shows up. There are no signs of foul play, but when her dogs turn up stray in another state, detectives take a closer look... and find that a nightmare has been lurking right beside her.

Port St. Lucie, Florida is at one time the fastest growing city in America. But with an aging population and little in the way of entertainment, it's not the most exciting place to live if you're a teenager. Many young residents have taken to throwing house parties to stave off the boredom, and in the summer of 2011, Tyler Hadley decides to throw a party to top them all. With close to 80 people crammed into his family's suburban home, it's certainly a party to remember, but with the discovery of two dead bodies at the end of the night, it's a party that no one will ever forget

Missy Thornton just wants to have a good time after she leaves her abusive partner. But he is lurking around every corner. Her stalker joins her, uninvited, in a night of partying. When police answer a 911 call the next morning, the party is over, and the lies have just begun.

In Plano, Texas, two party-goers head back in the small hours of the morning to the parking garage where they had both left their cars. Minutes after they enter, one car exits the garage but the other one never does. The owner's remains are discovered in a wooded area three and a half years later.

In Lexington Kentucky, in 2019, Savannah Spurlock, age 22, goes out for a night on the town with friends - and disappears without a trace. Police launch a massive search for the young mother of four, but fail to turn up any significant leads. As the months go by with no answers, it becomes all too clear that this missing person's case will likely turn into a murder investigation. But who would want to kill this well liked young mother of four - and why?

In Pontiac, Michigan, in 2017, 22-year-old Rosalia Brantley goes missing after attending a birthday party followed by a night out dancing at a club with friends. Two days later, her lifeless body is found dumped in a city park. When police fail to find any viable suspects, or even the location where the crime took place, the case goes stone cold for almost 20 years. A tip from an unlikely source causes a group of retired investigators to re-open the case. But will they be able to answer the question that stumped so many detectives before them: Who killed Rosalia Brantley?

A small Canadian town is the scene of an unsolved murder when a former pro-wrestler is brutally beaten. Months later, a party is held. Everyone wants to talk about the mystery, but some guests who talk know far more than they should. And as the walls start to close in, soon it will be every killer for himself.

Turkey hunters discover a twenty-one-year-old Samantha Josephson in a South Carolina field the day after she goes missing from a nightclub. Loved ones and police work together to find out what happened in the hours she left the club, using CCTV footage and cellphone records to prove that, instead of getting in the ride she orders, the woman gets into the car of a murderer.

In Denver, Colorado, university student Kenia Monge goes out for an evening at the club. Soon after midnight she is kicked out of the club, leaving her purse and cell phone behind. That cell phone contains the only clue they have that could lead to Kenia's discovery: a single text from someone outside of her contacts.

When Dawna Natzke, a police dispatcher and mother of three in the gated community of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas leaves a Christmas party in December 2011 it's the last time she is seen alive. A week later her remains are found in a pond in Ouachita National Forest. Two years later her boyfriend is arrested for her murder.

In Minot, North Dakota, in a historic neighborhood nestled within the curve of an ox-bow lake, police respond to reports of gunshots and find 27-year-old football star Joshua Velasquez dead in an alley. The neighborhood is in chaos, and many people are running around looking for a way out. Investigators must work quickly to block all exits and interview all potential witnesses - knowing that at least one of them could be armed and dangerous. But to identify the killer, detectives must first figure out what happened to transform a happy summer wedding celebration into a violent and deadly confrontation. And then, they must find the guilty person or persons before all of the possible suspects have vanished into the night.

It's Thanksgiving weekend, 1986, and all across America friends and families are celebrating. On this particular day, Morna Jean Brennen has more than just the holiday to celebrate - she's recently been promoted at her job. She and her best friend go to a local Minnesota bar to toast her new fortune, but when the two get separated, and Morna doesn't return home, her friends and family fear the worst. It's a cold November, and she won't last long against the elements, but the snowy landscape is the least of her worries.

Jassy Correia is about to turn 23 and wants to celebrate at an exclusive Boston nightclub. After a drunken argument, she gets separated from her friends. And there's a killer at the club who's been watching her every move. When the friends get separated, he moves in. Jassy goes missing, and police must piece together surveillance videos to track a fugitive.

A night of frantic searching leads to a son discovering his father, Jim Madonna, murdered in his own vehicle with the engine still running. Several outlandish theories emerge about what happens, but police use the evidence to uncover a dispute between Madonna and a friend over an unpaid debt of $30,000. Instead of repaying the loan as promised, Jim's friend kills him in cold blood.

College student Bill Henham is home visiting family over the Christmas holidays. Bored with the slow pace of his hometown, he decides to spend New Year's Eve celebrating in the nearby party town Brighton, England. Bill is easy going and self-assured, and has no problem making friends and enjoying the nightlife. But when he stumbles onto an after party in a derelict building run by a gang of squatters, his affable nature rubs the wrong person the wrong way, and Bill's carefree night of reverie turns into the night from hell.

Two half-sisters comply with COVID restrictions and hold a birthday party in the park. The night is too beautiful to go home, and they stay dancing in the dark. But evil lurks in the trees. This is their last dance - and only the beginning of the horror their family must endure.

Just after midnight on July 4, 2007 a frustrated neighbor in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood crosses his front lawn to shoot three young party-goers dead at close range and then turn his gun on the two who witnessed the murders. While who did it is not in question, what is, is why? And is he accountable for these actions

In Ocean City, Maryland, in 2002, Joshua Edward Ford and Martha Crutchley spend a night partying at the hottest nightclub in town, and then disappear without a trace. Police launch a massive search, but fail to turn up any significant leads. But when the couple's drivers licenses are found in the purse of a suspected burglar, it starts to look like this missing person's case will likely turn into a murder investigation. But who would want to kill this well liked couple from Virginia, and why?