
Fans of gripping, real-life stories of murder and mayhem will get their fill in this series that explores the crimes that made headlines. Firsthand accounts, dramatic re-enactments and archival news footage are used to paint comprehensive pictures of the high-profile cases and the law enforcement agents who investigated them.

Anthony Hopkins is a traveling preacher in Mobile, Ala.; left with eight children to raise after his wife leaves him, he tells his congregation that she died giving birth; Hopkins forces his stepdaughter to engage in sexual acts.

Gary Evans makes his living robbing antique stores throughout New York State and is well known by police in the area; after two years of no contact with him, police are thrust back onto his path in late 1997, a path that is littered with bodies.