True Crime Story

A senseless double murder lands a California man on death row. Despite this harsh sentence, a broken system surrounding the death penalty leaves everyone feeling justice hasn’t been served.

A California woman who claims she was acting in self-defense ends up in prison for murder. While there, she finds her story is much more common than she realized.

A Wisconsin woman goes to a hospital hoping to confirm her pregnancy and get medical help, but she instead finds she’s stepped into a nightmare. After being held captive for several days and denied a lawyer, she’s thrown in jail.

A Florida woman faces 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot.

A famous case with a controversial verdict poses questions about legal strategy and media coverage.

A debunked form of forensic science helps put a Florida man behind bars for life.

A brazen daytime murder in Edgewater, Florida generates surprising unanswered questions.

A couple is brutally murdered in rural Texas - but did prejudice affect the investigation?

Turlock, CA. An attorney known for uncovering corruption is accused of masterminding a murder plot.

Atwater, OH. Did an aggressive cold case investigation send an innocent man to death row?

Iaeger, WV. After a deadly fire, a man is imprisoned for murder. New evidence reveals the truth.

In this True Crime Story, a man claims he shot his daughter's estranged husband, Chirstian Griggs, in self-defense. But after investigators close the case, Christian's family discovers evidence that the killing was not justified.

A young single mother disappears without a trace. An investigation suggests she abandoned her children, while her family spends years proving she was murdered and finding her killers.

The investigation into a young mother's death divides a small town: was it murder or suicide?

Two elderly women get away with murder, but when they try it again, things don't go as planned.

One woman escapes a serial killer, and the friends of another victim set a trap to catch him.

A chance meeting of strangers leaves one of them dead, and police struggle to answer why.

When a man with a violent criminal history is paroled, tragedy quickly ensues.

A case of apparent murder by strangulation takes a shocking turn at trial.

On trial for his wife's murder, a man invokes a temporary insanity defense.

A club worker in Connecticut goes missing. A wealthy local businessman is suspected.

An unlikely murder suspect is convicted of killing a man in rural Shelbyville, Kentucky.

In Cookeville, Tennessee a couple is executed in their sleep - but do police catch the wrong man?

A young woman is shot to death with her police officer boyfriend's gun. Was it murder or suicide?

A local chiropractor is poisoned by someone she knows in a case that divides the whole town.

A man is charged with a brutal murder, will DNA evidence point to another man as the real killer?

On a remote island, a dispute between two lobstermen is settled the way islanders do: face-to-face; the conflict turns deadly when one swings an axe - leaving locals to dispute whether the death was self-defense or murder.

Years after the body of a young woman is found strangled to death in a creek bed, law enforcement finally closes the case; a closer look raises questions about the investigation.

Prichard, AL. The murder of a gender-nonconforming Black teenager remains unsolved despite pressure from family and friends - raising issues about the increase of violence, and the lack of justice for trans murder victims across the country.

New Albany, MS. When a beloved member of a tight-knit community is killed, the town cries out for immediate justice. After a young man is sentenced to death for the crime, and an out-of-town lawyer argues they convicted an innocent man.

Wahpeton, ND. When the body of a missing student is discovered in the river near a small college town, the community questions the role law enforcement may have played in his death.

Benton, MO. After a teenage girl is found murdered in her car on the side of a highway, a stranger from out of town is convicted of her murder. But when the deputy who originally discovered the body becomes sheriff, he calls everything into question.

A satanic cult is accused in a teen girl's disappearance.

An amateur sleuth tracks down suspects in a local murder.

The fate of two young people in Oklahoma remains a mystery.

An inmate at a local jail mysteriously winds up dead.

A man locked up for decades fights to prove his innocence.

A woman from an influential family's murder goes unsolved.