Tenacity, creativity and ingenuity are attributes of people we admire. But not everyone uses these attributes for good. Some use them for evil.

On Easter Sunday 1937, New Yorkers awoke to a startling headline. In the early morning hours that same day, a triple homicide occurred at an apartment building in the Midtown East Neighborhood of Manhattan. And when the identity of one of the victims was revealed, the story became so salacious it’s being talked about almost 90 years later.

In early 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis vanished into thin air, just months apart and from the exact same school bus stop. A shroud of terror gripped the community as investigators chased phantom leads, completely unaware that a monster was hiding in plain sight.

In 2011, a man desperate for money was offered a job to take care of someone else's problem. Little did he know he'd soon wind up in a police interrogation room... for murder.

This is an encore episode from January 2025. A husband and father lost his life in a brutal attack by gang members. The alleged attackers were arrested quickly, but it took the jury five days to reach a verdict. AND WE HAVE ONE OF THE JURORS AS A GUEST ON THIS EPISODE! Listen to all the behind-the-scenes details about the trial... and what happened afterward.

Madison Nygard narrowly escaped a man who attempted to kidnap her. And it was her brave fight to survive that led detectives not only to her own attacker, but also provided justice for the families of two young women whose unsolved cases had gone cold.

In 1990, 8-year-old Jennifer Schuett was taken in the early morning hours from her bedroom in Dickinson, TX. She was found 12 hours later in a field barely clinging to life. Her attacker left her to die, but she survived and vowed to bring the man to justice.

Ohio State senior Reagan Tokes was just months away from graduation. She had a generous spirit and majored in psychology so she could help others. But one night after work, she disappeared. And just three days later her family and friends got the news they’d all been dreading. Their beautiful girl was gone.