In 1986, Cheryl Pierson's father is shot and killed on his driveway, leaving Cheryl and her siblings orphans. In pursuit of his murderer, detectives uncover an unholy family secret and an unlikely assassin.

Dawn Smith's sister disappears, shocking a small community. The kidnapper calls repeatedly, but not for ransom, for fun...with Dawn. Will her dance with the devil help police catch him and bring Shari back alive?

3-year-old Riley Fox is kidnapped and found dead. When Riley's father confesses, defense attorney Kathleen Zellner knows there is more to this confession than meets the eye, and embarks to set the record straight.

After the mysterious disappearance of her teenage brother, a determined South Carolina mother, Lacresha Stanton sets out on a relentless, grassroots investigation to extricate the truth from his tight-lipped circle of supposed friends.

Kenneth Cloud is shot outside a restaurant, while his wife looks on. Detective Bill Martin goes with his gut down a path of lonely hearts and polygamous drifters to nail the shooter.

Just after Christmas, Carol Bushard's adopted son, Andy Bushard, mysteriously disappears. When police fail to act, Carol and her husband blaze their own investigative trail through the criminal back woods of a California mountain town.