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October 1984, Dallas, Texas. Angie Samote, a college freshman at Southern Methodist University is brutally raped and murdered in her apartment. Police first suspect her boyfriend but then zero in on a man she had met shortly before her murder. They recruit Angie's best friend Sheila Wysocki to help with the investigation. Unable to charge anyone, the case goes cold. But 20 years later, Sheila renews her vow to find Angie's killer.

June 7, 1998. Barberton, Ohio. 58-year-old Judith Johnson and her 6-year old granddaughter are brutally attacked in their home. Johnson is sexually assaulted, strangled and beaten to death. Her granddaughter Brooke is sexually assaulted and left for dead. Brooke tells police that her uncle Clarence did it. Melinda, Clarence's wife, knows that her husband is not responsible for the attack. But he is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. At her mother's funeral, Melinda vows to find the true killer.

After nearly two years at sea, the Silverwood family was on the brink of collapse. When the unimaginable happened in the middle of the South Pacific, the family found a strength it never knew it had. Beautiful Melissa Moody always knew the value of keeping up appearances until a freak accident changed everything she thought she valued most.

When Dallas patrol officers respond to a disturbance call, they find an armed parole violator intent on not returning to jail. The suspect fires at police and barricades himself in a bathroom. SWAT Officers Todd Welhouse and Misty Vancuren are called in to set-up a perimeter. All the while, SWAT negotiator J.D. Byas tries to talk the man out safely, even after a raging fire breaks out in his apartment. Later, Todd and his team are called in to execute a search warrant on a house used by suspected drug dealers. Todd's job is to neutralize an armed suspect guarding the front door before his teammates walk through it--and into the line of fire.

In Detroit, Officer Joseph "Brain" Weekley and the team are called to the scene of a barricaded gunman who is possibly schizophrenic and off his medication. Officer Jason "Diesel" Brasgalla attends college classes and finds it hard trying to balance work, family and school all at once. Brasgalla joins the rest of SWAT team for an intense narcotics raid.

Detectives Steve Ainsworth and John Zamora are determined to keep working a murder suspect until he cracks; Sgt. Jack Collins has to use all of his know-how when he questions a shooting suspect because the man knows his way around an interrogation room; and Det. Brett Surace tries to crack the case of a man who was murdered and found buried under the clothes and furniture in his apartment.

Cold case detective Eddie Majors has been investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old man for six years, but he finally thinks he has his man; Detectives R. J. Wilson and Shannon Lucy try to bluff a suspect, but he turns the tables and tries to fool them by playing insane; and Det. Mark Kennedy and Cpl. Christopher Stout grill the girlfriend of a man who was stabbed to death.

Inmate predators force weaker inmates to hide drugs in their cells and take the rap if they're caught. But one inmate risks his life and turns informant to help Sergeant Valerie "Snoop Dogg" Hampton and Special Agent John Fisher eliminate the inmates' outside drug source. Acting on this intelligence, the Squad conducts a massive cell search and ramps up their investigation outside the prison--where they hope to ensnare their suspect in an elaborate trap.

Two inmates suffer life-threatening stab wounds during a melee on the exercise yard that involves one shank, one pool stick, and two rival gangs. Squad members Jason Woodall and John Fisher must determine what motivated the fight and who is responsible--before the prison explodes.

A man suffering from bipolar disorder runs from the police after a botched drug deal and shots are fired as he eludes officers and swallows pills in an attempt to take his own life. Then, a young man's life crumbles after being expelled from a University and desperate for money, he agrees to transport drugs but then panics after seeing a police and leads cops on a high-speed chase through the outskirts of Cincinnati. For the first time on television, hear from the people who have lead police on some of the most dangerous high-speed pursuits ever.

A young man escapes from a detention facility to see his family and robs two women at gunpoint taking their SUV and leading police on a dramatic highway chase that results in multiple hit and runs. Next, a young man resorts to car theft in an effort to impress his friends and leads police in a high-speed pursuit that ends in a foot-chase through an apartment building. For the first time on television, hear from the people who have lead police on some of the most dangerous high-speed pursuits ever.

Called the "Castle on the Cumberland", its inspiring medieval presence is a focal point on the landscape. But this castle is really Kentucky's maximum-security prison, reinforced with modern cellblocks and electronic surveillance to keep watch on the state's most dangerous prisoners. We follow an officer on his shift and step inside the high-security block that houses the "worst of the worst", and tour death row that's electric chair holds a gruesome national record--seven executions in a single day!

Built in 1932, the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, looks more like a church than a prison. When it opened, it was considered the most modern and humane prison in America. We'll examine its history and inmate roster, which reads like a "Who's Who" of 20th-century American history and includes Alger Hiss, Morton Sobel, and Al Capone, who spent two nights there on his way to Alcatraz. Today, Lewisburg is home to one of the terrorists convicted of the World Trade Center bombing.

On July 4th, 2002 the dismembered and badly decomposed body of a woman is found hanging above a river in Philadelphia. Police suspect she may have been homeless and worry the crime will never be solved. When professional soccer player and homeless volunteer Adam Bruckner gets drawn into the investigation, he becomes obsessed with finding the killer.

October 1984, Dallas, Texas. Angie Samote, a college freshman at Southern Methodist University is brutally raped and murdered in her apartment. Police first suspect her boyfriend but then zero in on a man she had met shortly before her murder. They recruit Angie's best friend Sheila Wysocki to help with the investigation. Unable to charge anyone, the case goes cold. But 20 years later, Sheila renews her vow to find Angie's killer.

June 7, 1998. Barberton, Ohio. 58-year-old Judith Johnson and her 6-year old granddaughter are brutally attacked in their home. Johnson is sexually assaulted, strangled and beaten to death. Her granddaughter Brooke is sexually assaulted and left for dead. Brooke tells police that her uncle Clarence did it. Melinda, Clarence's wife, knows that her husband is not responsible for the attack. But he is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. At her mother's funeral, Melinda vows to find the true killer.

A series of controlled buys leads Roly and his C.I. to the home of a local dealer. The SWAT team swoops in, but finds the house empty. They decide to call the bust off before suddenly spotting a car fleeing the scene. Can they nab the drug lord before his poison spills out onto the streets?

With a big cartel shipment of heroin about to arrive in Laredo, the LPD team conducts a citywide crackdown of suspected heroin dealers to squeeze information out of them about where and when the drugs will arrive.

Sifuentes orders Roly to go undercover to nab a top cocaine and heroin dealer--a dangerous assignment because the suspect's most recent crime involved shooting an officer.

Through information from a trusted C.I., LPD Narcotics busts a stash house holding cocaine and guns, plus a ledger filled with information that could help them put a heavy cocaine operation out of business.

Sergeant Joe McHale starts his day by getting called out to a barricaded gunman who has taken two women hostage. The already nerve-racking domestic dispute grows even tenser when gunshots ring out inside the home. Across town, the crusade against drugs continues as Sergeant Chip Huth serves a dangerous warrant on an alleged drug dealing team of brothers armed with a gun. Later on, Huth tries to teach the two loves of his life, his two unruly dogs, some basic obedience rules.

Sergeant Joe McHale and his tactical team are called in to coax an unstable man out of his hotel room after he apparently stabs a hotel employee. But when the man turns the knife on himself, McHale and his squad must act quickly to save a life. Meanwhile, a buy-bust on an alleged drug dealer takes a dangerous turn when an unexpected vehicle catches Officer Mike Glass and his team off guard. Later that day, Glass and his squad serve a last-minute warrant that's been years in the making. But, can they get to the alleged drug dealer's home in time? Finally, Officer Glass gets to fulfill a promise to his daughter when he takes her shooting at the range.

SWAT team negotiator Jake "JD" Byas faces the toughest challenge of his career--dealing with an armed murder suspect who's barricaded in a motel room, and threatening to kill himself and anyone who tries to get him out. Meanwhile, another SWAT team surrounds the home of an alleged drug dealer with an 18-month-old baby inside. The team knows that protecting the baby will mean leaving them open to greater risk of injury when they rush inside.

The rich culture of Southern Louisiana is steeped with Cajun folklore and superstition. Weeks earlier, Deputy Tom Arnold was cursed by a suspect, and this comes to haunt the former California native; he must face the fact that this voodoo curse is affecting him. After grappling with one mishap after another, Tom seeks the help of a voodoo priestess to see if she can cure him once and for all. Down the bayou, a "Hatfields and McCoys" type dispute between local shrimpers escalates out of control. Lt. Merlin Daigle and Sgt. Dudley "DJ" Authement struggle to piece together the truth from two very different sides of the story. When one of the shrimper's boats catches fire that same evening, Lt. Daigle must determine whether it's a case of retaliation or if the shrimper is dealing with a curse of his own.

Mardi Gras is the biggest party of the year in Southern Louisiana, and it doesn't just happen in New Orleans. Terrebonne Parish is home to the second biggest Mardi Gras in the state, which means the deputies are working around the clock. Deputy Paul "Highlights" Thibodeaux is dispatched to a routine alarm call at a warehouse only to find out that an expensive sound system has been snatched from a high-profile Mardi Gras float. He passes the case onto Detective Lt. Terry Daigre who gets a hot lead and sets up a stakeout a local bar. When the suspect comes in to the bar trying to sell the sound system, Daigre gets ready to pounce. Also, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal tries to settle a dispute between an estranged husband and wife who are disputing over their Mardi Gras beads, and Deputy Keith Bergeron must settle down the rowdy riders of a party bus.

Terrebonne Parish can be a tough place for teenagers to find weekend entertainment, so deputies will investigate all sorts of calls involving the bayou's most troublesome kids. Corporal Storm Fitch and his brother, Deputy Steam Fitch team together to bust teens illegally street racing down the bayous. Street racing in Southern Louisiana is even more dangerous than other places because one wrong move on the water-lined bayou roads and a driver will be trapped in a sinking car. Also, Deputy Marlin Meeks is dispatched to a disturbance at an old, and rumored to be, haunted plantation house. Centuries ago, entire families died in these houses and were buried on the premises. And Lt. Peter Guidry is dispatched to an eerie call of someone yelling death threats with a bullhorn down the bayou.

Terrebonne Parish nuisance alligator hunter Jacob Lirette has only a few precious tools he needs to catch and transport alligators - his fishing pole, his guns, and his truck. When a neighbor alerts him of suspicious activity around his property, he calls in his girlfriend, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal to help him investigate. Thieves have stolen Lirette's precious guns out of his storage shack, and by the looks of the way other items are piled up, they're probably coming back. When the robbers do return, they have no idea they're in for a taste of gatorman's justice. Also, Corporal Storm Fitch stumbles upon an abandoned car in the marsh just off an eerie and haunted bayou road. Could there still be a body inside?