
This newsmagazine investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.

A federal prosecutor, kidnapped at gunpoint on his birthday, recounts his bizarre hostage ordeal.

When an elderly millionaire is found dead in a freezer, her decades-younger companion is brought up on murder charges; the movie inspired by the story, "Bernie."

A football coach serves nine years in prison for the murder of his wife before a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals finds he didn't get a fair trial.

Authorities first suspect the husband in the savage murder of a Florida doctor, but when he has an alibi, they follow a tip on a 1,100-mile trip that takes the case in an unexpected direction.