Swamp Murders

Near Asheville, N.C., a young mother is stabbed four times in the chest and left for dead in the French Broad River, but she survives long enough to seek out help and to leave a cryptic clue for detectives.

In Beaumont, Texas, a young woman goes missing from a broken-down car while waiting for her husband's return; the nearby Big Thicket Swamp may hold the answer to her disappearance.

A Lakota teenager disappears from the town of Mobridge, S.D., causing racial tensions to erupt; when her body is found in the shallows of the Missouri River, detectives are confounded on both sides of the divide.

On the morning of her 50th birthday, a woman is found face down in Suqualena Creek near Meridien, Miss.; detectives soon discover the victim's daughter and her best friend are both keeping secrets.

In Crox Springs, La., a young woman disappears from the parking lot of a roadhouse, and her frantic boyfriend suspects she has reconnected with an old flame with deadly consequences.

In Albany, N.Y., a young woman disappears after storming out of the house to find her wayward boyfriend, then her body is found on the banks of the Hudson River.