Hometown Tragedy

In 1977, people across Pittsburgh live in fear as a string of brutal killings sends detectives on a chase to catch the shotgun slayer. He invades homes and senselessly attacks with a shotgun, knives and hammers in the dead of night.

When body parts wash ashore in the Gulf Coast over several days in 2012, investigators must identify the victim before they can find the killers. Even then, justice is elusive.

Growing up, two siblings hear unsettling stories about their family's history. They don't know what to believe about the ones who went missing in 1992, until, decades later, the haunting truth comes out.

Three-year-old Kamille McKinney, affectionately known as "Cupcake," is abducted while playing outside a relative's Birmingham home. The ensuing search unifies the city, as residents pray she will be found alive.

In 1990, an 18-year-old driving across Wisconsin to a job conference never arrives. After her van and later her body are discovered, the mystery surrounding Berit Beck's death persists for more than two decades. What happened in that van?

Six people are slain in a home in a quiet Iowa town. One person survives a gunshot to the head and claims to have no memory of the incident. The tragedy and eventual trial shred the social fabric of the neighborhood.

In a serene community, a beloved doctor is bludgeoned in her own home. Investigators uncover a conspiracy that rocks the close-knit neighborhood to its core.

A man vanishes from a boarding house in 1988. The fight to find him uncovers one of the most shocking cases in Sacramento history and the surprising revelation of a grandmotherly-looking serial killer hiding in plain sight.