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When Nabela Henry's two children were ripped from her grasp and taken to the Middle East by her ex-husband, she found a hidden strength she never knew she had. Dave Dahl's drug fueled life of crime crashed down around him until a desperate call for help transformed him from felon to millionaire.

Native Iraqi, Rafraf Barrack was taught to hate America until a violent act shed a peaceful light on the enemy she thought she knew. Attorney Shari Karney was a shark in the courtroom but no one ever thought she'd assault a witness. A surprising twist of fate would force Shari to face the terrible truth about a past she had tried to forget.

Sixteen-year-old Crystal Miller was going down a dark path when two of her classmates gunned-down everyone around her. In the aftermath, she had to reassess who she was and who she wanted to be. Brooks Douglass had a bright future ahead, but when his family fell prey to a violent home invasion it took more than justice to heal the missing piece of his soul.

The notorious case of Kenneth McDuff, the most infamous sexual predator in Texas history, who was sent to death row for three murders, released because of prison overcrowding, and then raped and killed two more women.

A look at the controversial case of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife, a high powered business executive. At the trial, the prosecution showed that Peterson stood to collect a large amount of life insurance if his wife died. But the defense claimed that the police were seeking revenge against Peterson for articles he had written critical of them in the local paper.

Most of Angola's 5,000 maximum-security inmates will never see the outside world again. Formerly a slave plantation in a remote area of Louisiana, in the 1930s Angola remained backward and brutal and by 1975, with increasing crowding and violence, became known as the "Bloodiest Prison in America". Paul Sorvino narrates.

Upon opening in rural New York State, Attica was hailed as an architectural landmark and model for the confinement of the most dangerous criminals. Over time, its name became a battle cry for death, despair, and violence. Paul Sorvino narrates a look at the home of the worst prison riot in American history in September 1971.

A behind-bars visit to America's first federal prison. Still operating since 1895, Leavenworth has hosted many infamous inmates, exciting escapes, and bloody riots. Learn the true story of EM The Birdman of Alcatraz /EM , who served most of his time here, and talk to a guard who lost an arm in the current escalating violence. Narrated by Paul Sorvino.

The largest prison system in the free world, its 20,000 male and female inmates reflect the crimes and racial tensions of Los Angeles County. The challenge is staggering--feed 75,000 meals a day and keep an estimated 16,000 gang members from killing each other! Welcome to LA County Jail with an inmate roster that reads like a Who's Who of national crime stories--Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen, Robert Mitchum, Robert Blake, Charles Manson...all passed through its standing-room-only holding tanks!

Since Hurricane Katrina, crime in Jefferson Parish Louisiana has been on the rise. Henry Conravey has successfully completed 12 weeks of field training. Everything he's learned is put to the test as he rides with his sergeant for his evaluation, but after a couple of simple mistakes, Henry isn't so sure he'll get "cut loose" to patrol the streets on his own. Chris Cade is looking forward to one thing--getting his own patrol car. At 21, Chris is the youngest rookie in his class. He puts up with FTO Derek Johnson's constant teasing and hazing, and the two develop a brotherly rapport, but when Chris makes a critical error on a traffic stop it is no laughing matter.

Charles Lee has several years as a ranking officer in the military under his belt. Now as a rookie cop in Jefferson Parish he's starting at the bottom again. Charles' experience gives him a leg up, but his know-it-all attitude isn't making him popular with his FTO Greg, or his fellow officers. When Charles disobeys protocol and takes off in a foot chase on his own, Greg is furious, and fears for Charles' safety. As a kid, Nick Buttone dreamed of becoming a cop, and as the top-ranked marksman in his Academy® class he's eager for action. Nick gets paired with an older, by-the-book FTO named Mike Tisdale, and his enthusiasm for the job fades with each traffic ticket and report he's forced to write. When Nick switches FTOs, life improves and he sees more action. Unfortunately though, an exciting shift for Nick means tragedy for others.

Rookie Amy Hess seems to have little fear when it comes to arresting people or confronting the mentally ill, but dealing with German Shepherds is a whole other story. Unfortunately for Amy, being attacked by the K-9 unit's German Shepherd is part of her training. Rookie Tommie Tolbert puts on his detective hat to discover the aggressor in a domestic dispute. He then faces the dangerous task of serving on the entry team of a search warrant bust, but it's when he reaches for his gun on what seems like a routine traffic stop, where this Rookie could face his ultimate test.

Rookie Dennis Cooper's wife is about to give birth to a baby girl. Dennis is asked to control an angry juvenile arrested on gun charges, then restrain a grieving a husband after a tragic hit and run accident, causing this father-to-be to start questioning his decision to join the TPD family. Rookie Hugh Herndon passed the first week of Tampa's rigorous Rookie training program, but this former schoolteacher's new classroom are the streets of Tampa; a world that includes drug dealers, prostitutes, and auto thieves who are going to teach Hugh more than he bargained for.

Neighbors always mix up sisters Sarah and Stevie, but their polar-opposite personalities is what set them apart in the end. Elena and Christina were both adopted, but these teenage sisters love, laugh, and battle like blood relatives.

When a friendly neighbor marries barely legal Linda, he rescues her from abject poverty, and invites her sister, Patti, into their twisted relationship. But when their new life is threatened, neither sister will let anything--including the other--take it away. While Ana refuses to give up her earthly ways, Mary tries relentlessly to help her sister find the Lord. But when a scandalous accusation goes too far, only one of them will really see the light.

When Teresa's brother marries Betty Jo, the young bride becomes the sister Teresa was always dying for. Over the years, tragedy, accusations and wild tempers repeatedly get in the way, until one night they both wish they'd never met each other. When teen sisters Sandra and Jossie both get pregnant, one pays for the maternal instincts of the other with her life.

Lead Homicide Detective Wally Everett and his partner Detective Mike Smith, are called out to a crime scene where a body lays hidden between some hedges and the porch of the victim's grandmother's house. The victim, a male, is face down. Strewn around the front lawn are seven bullet casings, evidence suggesting that the victim was shot multiple times. As detectives investigate the immediate area, they discover clues of the victim's alternate lifestyle -- and they wonder if that may be a clue to the motive behind his murder. Each piece of evidence takes them closer to their suspect.

Early one January morning, four masked men invade a Cleveland home, robbing the inhabitants at gunpoint. But the burglary doesn't go as planned and one of the intruders is shot to death. When they arrive on scene, Detectives Hank Veverka and Kathleen Carlin already have more than a dozen potential suspects. Did one of the homeowners shoot the victim in self-defense--or did one of his own men pull the trigger' Using ballistics, DNA testing and fingerprint evidence, the detectives race to narrow down their suspect pool and catch the killer.

On the morning of July 5th, the body of the victim is found lying face up in an abandoned lot that had been used to shoot off guns the night before in celebration of Independence Day. More than 60+ shell casings are collected from the crime scene, which detectives hope will include an essential clue. A tip leads detectives to a possible suspect, who denies any involvement in the killing, although his polygraph may show otherwise. Detectives search his girlfriend's house for other evidence. Meanwhile, rumor on the street is that a high-level dealer was actually the shooter. As their list of suspects grows, the case quickly evolves into what seems to be a conspiracy -- but without an on-the-record eyewitness, Detective Simms won't be able to prove the case.

Detectives Hank Veverka and Tom Armelli are called to a possible crime scene. The coroner arrives and finds that the victim's body shows signs of blunt force trauma to the head. While still on scene, the detectives respond to a call from a woman who claims that she was watching the news story of the crime and she believes that the body they found may be her nephew--who had been missing since the previous night. When Detectives Veverka and Armelli arrive at the woman's house, she tells them that she had seen a trail of blood leading upstairs to her nephew's bedrooms the day before. She also reveals that her nephew and his brother have a troubled past, and detectives piece together the evidence to discover what happened.

Detective Jaime Baynes is called to the scene of a possible homicide. After interviewing a few witnesses, Baynes learns the victim ran 100 yards, coughing up blood along the way. He banged on a couple of doors crying for help, before falling on his back and dying in the grass. In his death grip is a folded-up dollar bill with methamphetamine inside. The medical examiner finds a bullet from a small caliber 25 mm gun had ricocheted around in his body, causing internal bleeding. At the crime scene, where detectives believe the shooting occurred, no shell casings are found. With no suspects or leads, the forensic team tests the methamphetamine for a unique chemical formula, which may lead them to the neighborhood that produced the drugs. Hopefully the drugs' formula and the signature way the drugs were wrapped in the dollar bill, can lead detectives to the source and a possible suspect.

In a quiet Indianapolis suburb, two men are found fatally beaten in their bedrooms. Detective Bobby Flack is called to the scene and quickly learns that the victims had been harassed for being gay. Were these murders a hate crime' Could the killer be a neighbor living in this picturesque suburb' Or, is he a master manipulator leading the detectives on a wild goose hunt in order to conceal his true identity' The search for the truth takes Flack on a journey into the mind of a twisted killer and culminates in a dramatic nationwide manhunt for the suspect's arrest.

Two men who live next to each other in a housing project get into a deadly argument. One is shot and killed. Detectives Crewell and Williams take the two men's girlfriends back to headquarters to find out what happened. One story tells of murder, the other self-defense. Detectives try to unravel the different accounts given by the girlfriends. The key may lie with a gun that was recovered from a trash can behind the house. A Federal lab tests a bullet found at the scene and the gun to determine if it is the murder weapon. Meanwhile, Crewell and Williams try to find holes in the girlfriends' stories. As the girlfriends' stories start to fall apart, the suspect on the run is feeling the heat.