
Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

In 2001, University of South Carolina student Shelton Sanders disappeared while planning a friend's bachelor party; he was never seen again; when evidence leads to an arrest, however, prosecutors are left with a tall task.

Terri Gilbert said she didn't know who was coming down the basement steps; she shot and killed him; turned out to be her husband whom she was divorcing; twenty years earlier, she told a similar story, about her first husband.

In 1969, 15-year-old John McCabe excitedly left for a dance at a neighborhood hall; the discovery of his body in an abandoned lot launched an investigation that lasted 40 years and would turn childhood friends into bitter enemies.

First it was her cop husband, then her firefighter boyfriend; when the men close to Lynn Turner keep dying of what looks like the flu, investigators take a closer look at what she keeps in the basement.