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A friendly Texas town is stunned when one of its most popular citizens is accused of murdering a wealthy widower. Narrated by Paul Winfield.

Students fear for their lives in the fall of 2000 when Washington D.C.'s Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf, becomes a killer's hunting ground. Detectives sift through the twisted mystery and learn not everyone on campus is who they seem to be.

Oil City, PA is a small town with a big history. Once a crucial center for America's steel and petroleum industry, it's now a shadow of its former self. While life for the 10,000 residents can be tough, it's a simple place where bad things rarely happen and people watch out for one another. In 1992, when an 11-year old girl goes missing on her way home from a Halloween party, it shocks the close-knit community. When it becomes clear a terrible crime has been committed, suddenly the trusting town realizes that monsters exist. For years, police search for clues to try to unmask the evil they're certain lives among them in order to bring justice to the victim and closure for her family.

A peaceful Michigan city is shocked when a local TV anchorwoman is murdered and her husband is charged with the crime. Paul Winfield narrates.

It's all about new partnerships and life lessons. Gavin returns from work offshore and is assigned to a new partner Ted. Together, they treat a woman on busy Bourbon Street with a badly broken ankle. In the meantime, our SWAT guys head out to serve a high-risk warrant and Holly, Nick and Keeley respond to a flipped car where the driver's arm is cut to the bone. Later in the night, we return to Ted and Gavin who work to rescue a man who has fallen off a ladder and landed on a roof. Justin is assigned to a new partner and tries to maintain his track record of 100%.

Titus and Dan treat a woman who was viciously stabbed in the face, and Holly and Nick tend to a young woman who was assaulted. A wild police chase ends with a major car accident, and the firefighters of SQURT 16 race to put out a structure fire. Throughout the long night the character of New Orleans' residents shines through in dramatic and quirky ways.

Informational programming.

Informational programming.

Informational programming.

Informational programming.

When a brutal triple-homicide case with alleged ties to witchcraft heads to trial, questions about religious bias and the real motive-to-kill take center stage.

In-depth look at police on trial for corruption and brutality. Examines how police are treated as defendants and the types of sentences they face; and reveals research results that show that police and the general public are held to different standards of justice.

African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families were desperate for help, but no one seemed to know what was happening to them, no one except the helpful resident of 12205 Imperial Avenue, Anthony Sowell. From a young age, Anthony was desperate for some sort of control and ultimately found it when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim, a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.

One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer. Growing up yearning for a father figure, he found mentorship with his sadistic cousin, a Vietnam Vet, and, later, Satanism, both eventually paving the way to his first brutal slaying.

Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true? And if not, what shaped his trajectory from "Artie Oddball" to murderer? He might have been known for killing women along Rochester's Genesee River, but his first murder was years earlier and the culmination of years of dark fantasies.

A retail store worker puts her life on the line to save a prized puppy stolen before her very eyes; a homeowner witnesses his family held at gunpoint and fights back against the assailants; a woman working at her family business battles a knife-wielding assailant who demands money; and more.

A protective father fends off a would-be home invader with a shovel; a street fight over a parking spot turns into an action film-like disaster for a bakery owner; a robber throws gasoline on a clerk, threatening to light him on fire. And more.

A local trip becomes a harrowing ordeal for one family when they're surrounded by an angry mob that attacks their vehicle; a laundromat owner is beaten by unruly patrons from the business next door; a property manager is confronted by a crazed gunman who shoots him twice; and more.

A thief with a knife and a big idea meets a store employee and his bigger blade; a ride share driver has his evening shattered as gunfire rips through his truck; a devious plot involving a bank teller and an ATM lead to a near death encounter; and more.

A family faces off with violent attackers trying to rob their jewelry store; two young women flee from a driver out to get them on a terrifying road trip; convenience and crime collide at a bank ATM; and much more.

A gas station worker faces down the barrel of a gun and is ordered to empty her registers; a man running an errand goes on a high speed chase to elude carjackers; a hotel worker thwarts a sexual predator with six prior assaults, unmasking him for all to see; and more.

In January of 1981, 18-year-old Cheryl Bartlett Fann was walking home late at night with her fianc Bud, when they were suddenly abducted and taken to an abandoned garage. The assailants, Anthony and Nathaniel Cook had already kidnapped and killed at least two people in Toledo, Ohio. Cheryl recounts in her own words her resilience and the keen insights that helped her outwit the would-be murderers.

In September of 2008, Vanessa Gay met Anthony Sowell on a sidewalk in Cleveland Ohio. He invited her to share drinks and drugs at his home. She was unaware that she was walking into a house where 11 of his victims had been hidden and buried. Vanessa recounts her escape from death, as Detective Lemmy Griffin and Prosecutor Rick Bombik walk us through this murderer's capture and sentencing.

In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted and held captive for 3 horrific days in Truth or Consequences, NM. Cynthia managed to escape and report her experience to the police. Once her kidnapper, David Parker Ray, is taken to jail, an intense FBI investigation revealed that he has an entire torture chamber unlike anything investigators have ever seen called The Toy Box. Cynthia's heroic escape opens up a Pandora's box of kidnappings, torture and murder. In this episode, Cynthia recounts her incredible act of survival and strength and describes how she put an end to the horror brought on by The Toy Box Killer.

In September of 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend's house in Garden Grove, CA. His assailant, William Bonin, has an appetite for assaulting young men and boys, and just four short years after attacking David, Bonin embarks on an all out killing spree. David recounts in his own words his persistence and unfailing bravery in the mission to lock up the Freeway Killer, one of the most notoriously vicious serial killers to ever terrorize Southern California.

Part 1 tells of the childhood and youth of John Gotti Junior. While growing up in Howard Beach, New York, and as a student at New York Military Academy, John learns of, and we follow the story of his father's meteoric rise to power in the world of organized crime. Years later, after graduating, instead of going on to pursue a career in the military, at his father's urging John Junior takes a year off. That's when his troubles begin and he gets in a barroom brawl. John's father "punishes" him by forcing him to spend his days hanging out at the Bergin Hunt and Fish Social Club, his father's mob headquarters. By the time John is in his twenties, he is asked and chooses to become a made member of the Gambino Crime Family.

In Part 2, the FBI is focused on taking down Gotti and the Gambino Crime family, as well as the bosses of all five New York mafia clans. When Gotti's underboss, Sammy Gravano agrees to testify for the government, Gotti Senior is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. John Junior becomes the acting boss of the crime family. With this transition of power, John Junior quickly becomes the prime target of the FBI. John Junior, having resolved to quit the life of organized crime, pleads guilty to racketeering, serves over seven years in prison, and must still withstand four federal trials all ending in mistrials before he is set free to pursue his life as a "civilian," a husband to his wife, father to his five children, and a law abiding citizen who honors his vow to quit the mob.

Part 1 tells of the childhood and youth of John Gotti Junior. While growing up in Howard Beach, New York, and as a student at New York Military Academy, John learns of, and we follow the story of his father's meteoric rise to power in the world of organized crime. Years later, after graduating, instead of going on to pursue a career in the military, at his father's urging John Junior takes a year off. That's when his troubles begin and he gets in a barroom brawl. John's father "punishes" him by forcing him to spend his days hanging out at the Bergin Hunt and Fish Social Club, his father's mob headquarters. By the time John is in his twenties, he is asked and chooses to become a made member of the Gambino Crime Family.