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A twelve-year-old girl, home alone, grabs her mother's gun and holds fort in her bedroom closet, as an intruder enters and roams her home with unknown intentions. After being kidnapped by an ex-boyfriend, a woman narrowly escapes to a nearby house where the homeowner calls 9-1-1 just as the woman's ex steps into view armed with a kitchen knife. When their dog wakes them up in the middle of the night to the sounds of an intruder breaking into their home, an elderly couple calls 9-1-1 and prepares for a certain attack.

Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant, goes missing in Modesto, California, prompting a massive search and an intense police focus on her husband Scott.

After an altercation inside the cellblock, an inmate collapses and dies from multiple stab wounds. Special agents John Fisher and Joe England collect forensic evidence, parse surveillance video and explore a possible connection to the deadly El Salvadoran gang MS-13. The case turns on the master interrogation skills of Special Agent in Charge Jason Woodall.

The warden receives an anonymous letter from an inmate threatening to raise a small army to attack correctional officers. Sgt. Nicky Jordan orders a Trojan Horse-style raid on the cell block, breaks up a secret meeting of the Vice Lordz, and explores a possible Aryan connection--all in a race against time to catch the would-be killer.

Sgt. Betsy Brantner-Smith and Officers Julie Lardino and Tracy Nance release some aggression and train for hand-to-hand combat with their nightstick batons. Then, Officer Dawn Yorke deals with a belligerent homeless man accused of casing a parking lot for possible theft.

Set in Aruba and Fallbrook, CA. Beth Holloway shares her journey to find answers about her missing daughter Natalee and begins her quest to help families with loved ones who have vanished without a trace. The episode also introduces California family of four, the McStays, who all suddenly vanished without a trace.

A look at the strange case of Carrie Culberson, a former cheerleader who vanished in 1996 from Blanchester, Ohio. Her boyfriend, Vincent Doan, was convicted of murdering her, and his father and police chief were accused of covering up the crime. The town remains divided as the Culberson and Doan families continue to search for the truth - and for Carrie.

International playboy John Hawkins and two associates conspire to kill a young man as part of a scam to collect $2 million in life insurance. Initially authorities fall for it, but the scheme unravels. The two associates are caught early on, but ringleader Hawkins goes on the run, launching a three-year global manhunt. Hawkins is close to getting away with it until his path finally crosses with the lone police officer who pursues him relentlessly--California homicide detective Jon Perkins.

A religious fanatic with a history of mental illness, William Burkhart eludes a posse for 34 days in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado in 1995. Burkhart commits a string of bizarre burglaries in unoccupied summer cabins. Three Park County deputies surround him, but Burkhart shoots one of them and escapes into the dark woods. Sheriff Bob Harrison leads the ensuing manhunt for Burkhart, which is nothing like Park County has ever seen.

The seizure of 350 pounds of marijuana leads the narcotics unit to track down a similar-sized or sister load coming from Mexico. The trail leads to a truck stop where they discover a security guard brokering the deals. Will the guard flip and give up the intel the unit needs to find that sister load before it vanishes into dust?

Sifuentes and Roly are determined to take down Quack, one of Laredo's most notorious heroin dealers. But it won't be easy--Quack has ducked the LPD's attempts to stop him twice before.

The strangest and eeriest calls on the bayou happen at night, especially when a full moon shines overhead. Detective Terry Daigre has been trying to track down a gang of thieves that are preying on empty camps in the deep bayou, and when Sgt. Dudley "DJ" Authement calls him with a fresh lead on the night of the full moon, it's the first clue that leads to a wild and action-packed manhunt. Also, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal gets the strangest call of the night when she's dispatched to a horse stable where all of the horses manes and tails have been braided. The distraught woman who called in the complaint believes it's the work of the "Lutin," a mischievous spirit of an un-baptized baby ghost.

After a violent boating accident, Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois joins forces with multiple agencies to recover a boat, and possibly a body, from the murky depths of the Mississippi waters. Meanwhile, Deputy Keith Bergeron and Sgt. Dudley DJ Authement, both raised on the bayou, head deep into the swamps in the middle of the night to investigate a hair-raising sighting of the legendary Rougarou, the local name for a "shape-shifting swamp monster." When the witness hands over video of the half-man, half-wolf creature prowling the weeds behind his camp, the officers have no choice but to explore the very woods where the mysterious beast disappeared. The next morning, Deputy Bergeron puts two and two together when he is called to the scene of a mutilated calf near where the Cajun swamp monster vanished.

In Southern Louisiana, alligators are just a part of everyday life. When a vicious alligator attacks a family's dog, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal must call in the services of her alligator hunter boyfriend, Jacob Lirette, known as the "Gator Man", to handle the threat. The sheriff's office also gets a new lead on a suspect from a major local theft ring, and their hunt takes them on a dramatic chase through the razor-like sugar cane fields. Also, water patrol officers "Funkie Nuts" and "DJ" are sent out in the dead of night to one of the strangest and eeriest bayou calls they've ever seen.

The local shrimpers in Terrebonne Parish are notorious for handling their own problems and don't like interference from the cops. However, when Sgt. Dudley "DJ" Authement gets a call about a disturbance on a shrimping vessel, he has to call in the SWAT team when he realizes the captain has taken a deckhand hostage and is trying to escape through the bayou's waterways. Also, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal tries to get to the bottom of a fight between two shrimpers, but both are tight-lipped and won't confess to the scuffle that left one of the fishermen with a nearly severed finger. And Deputy Tom Arnold investigates a disturbance in the deep woods, ultimately confronting two teenage boys who are placing bait and setting traps to bag the ultimate prize.

A look at the strange case of Carrie Culberson, a former cheerleader who vanished in 1996 from Blanchester, Ohio. Her boyfriend, Vincent Doan, was convicted of murdering her, and his father and police chief were accused of covering up the crime. The town remains divided as the Culberson and Doan families continue to search for the truth - and for Carrie.

International playboy John Hawkins and two associates conspire to kill a young man as part of a scam to collect $2 million in life insurance. Initially authorities fall for it, but the scheme unravels. The two associates are caught early on, but ringleader Hawkins goes on the run, launching a three-year global manhunt. Hawkins is close to getting away with it until his path finally crosses with the lone police officer who pursues him relentlessly--California homicide detective Jon Perkins.

A religious fanatic with a history of mental illness, William Burkhart eludes a posse for 34 days in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado in 1995. Burkhart commits a string of bizarre burglaries in unoccupied summer cabins. Three Park County deputies surround him, but Burkhart shoots one of them and escapes into the dark woods. Sheriff Bob Harrison leads the ensuing manhunt for Burkhart, which is nothing like Park County has ever seen.

The seizure of 350 pounds of marijuana leads the narcotics unit to track down a similar-sized or sister load coming from Mexico. The trail leads to a truck stop where they discover a security guard brokering the deals. Will the guard flip and give up the intel the unit needs to find that sister load before it vanishes into dust?

Sifuentes and Roly are determined to take down Quack, one of Laredo's most notorious heroin dealers. But it won't be easy--Quack has ducked the LPD's attempts to stop him twice before.

The strangest and eeriest calls on the bayou happen at night, especially when a full moon shines overhead. Detective Terry Daigre has been trying to track down a gang of thieves that are preying on empty camps in the deep bayou, and when Sgt. Dudley "DJ" Authement calls him with a fresh lead on the night of the full moon, it's the first clue that leads to a wild and action-packed manhunt. Also, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal gets the strangest call of the night when she's dispatched to a horse stable where all of the horses manes and tails have been braided. The distraught woman who called in the complaint believes it's the work of the "Lutin," a mischievous spirit of an un-baptized baby ghost.

After a violent boating accident, Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois joins forces with multiple agencies to recover a boat, and possibly a body, from the murky depths of the Mississippi waters. Meanwhile, Deputy Keith Bergeron and Sgt. Dudley DJ Authement, both raised on the bayou, head deep into the swamps in the middle of the night to investigate a hair-raising sighting of the legendary Rougarou, the local name for a "shape-shifting swamp monster." When the witness hands over video of the half-man, half-wolf creature prowling the weeds behind his camp, the officers have no choice but to explore the very woods where the mysterious beast disappeared. The next morning, Deputy Bergeron puts two and two together when he is called to the scene of a mutilated calf near where the Cajun swamp monster vanished.

In Southern Louisiana, alligators are just a part of everyday life. When a vicious alligator attacks a family's dog, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal must call in the services of her alligator hunter boyfriend, Jacob Lirette, known as the "Gator Man", to handle the threat. The sheriff's office also gets a new lead on a suspect from a major local theft ring, and their hunt takes them on a dramatic chase through the razor-like sugar cane fields. Also, water patrol officers "Funkie Nuts" and "DJ" are sent out in the dead of night to one of the strangest and eeriest bayou calls they've ever seen.

The local shrimpers in Terrebonne Parish are notorious for handling their own problems and don't like interference from the cops. However, when Sgt. Dudley "DJ" Authement gets a call about a disturbance on a shrimping vessel, he has to call in the SWAT team when he realizes the captain has taken a deckhand hostage and is trying to escape through the bayou's waterways. Also, Deputy Melissa "Catfish" Quintal tries to get to the bottom of a fight between two shrimpers, but both are tight-lipped and won't confess to the scuffle that left one of the fishermen with a nearly severed finger. And Deputy Tom Arnold investigates a disturbance in the deep woods, ultimately confronting two teenage boys who are placing bait and setting traps to bag the ultimate prize.

The Florida State Prison at Raiford was built on 18,000 acres of farmland in 1913. The original maximum-security housing unit, nicknamed "The Rock", gave the prison its notorious reputation. At the height of its infamy, it was the scene of stabbings, beatings, and even a decapitation. It was also severely overcrowded and torn down by court order in 1999. But Raiford is still home to Florida's death row, where more than 300 men await execution by electrocution.

Central Prison in Raleigh, is the first stop for all of North Carolina's male felons with sentences of 20 years or longer. It's also the last stop for men and women sentenced to death. Today, Central is a modern state-of-the-art prison, but it began as a dark dungeon built nearly 120 years ago.

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!

The ladies of Naperville PD show just how tough they are as they combat out of control suspects including a kid who tries to charge one of the officers and a mother with a violent daughter seeking advice.