A brutal murder and frozen crime scene shatter an idyllic Idaho town. A suspect's bizarre confession has police hoping for a quick resolution, but all is not what it seems and they need to find an attacker with a gruesome MO before he strikes again.
Baffled by the animal instincts of a cross country killer whose crimes seem to go dormant in winter, authorities ultimately follow his tracks to a den of deceit in the frozen tundra of Alaska.
When a beloved couple vanishes just before their annual Christmas party, their family fears the worst - and police must do everything from posing as the Mafia to coaxing information from threatened witnesses in order to solve a years-long mystery.
After a house fire lights up a Wisconsin night, firefighters find the bodies of a woman and two kids, with evidence they'd been bound before the blaze. Police learn the victim's infant son is missing and must scramble to find the deadly kidnappers.
On a snowy Pittsburgh night a young doctor is found beaten, slashed and slain in his bathtub. While everyone struggles with the shocking loss, detectives develop a psychological profile of a killer who will likely strike again unless they find him.
Colorado authorities quickly hone in on a suspect after finding a name tag in a bloody sweatshirt near the scene of a young girl's murder - but are later stunned when DNA reveals they've got the wrong man.
Police discover a murdered young woman and empty child car seat in the back of a burning car and a frantic search ensues in hopes of finding the child unharmed. They also have to do their best to find who killed the young woman.
A Beautiful " model" gets brutally murdered by one of the thugs that she chooses to date.. apparently the OJ Simpson story never made it up to where she lived. She turned out not to be the exception, but the rule.
The most violent night in the history of Anchorage, Alaska leaves seven dead - including four teens. And, the small police department is virtually overwhelmed by the string of shootings until clues lead them to the unlikeliest of suspects.
On a chilly winter morning in St. Louis, an eleven year old girl vanishes. Days later her body is found along an icy river bank. She's been brutally murdered. It's a race against time for investigators who fear the elusive killer will strike again.