
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.

Linda Yancey and day-laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc are shot in the Yancey basement; Derrick Yancey, a 17-year veteran, had a tearful tale of self-defense; but a trail of evidence forces investigators to take a closer look at one of their own.

When Susan Wright's husband, Jeffrey, is found buried in the backyard, stabbed 193 times, people dub her the blue-eyed butcher of the suburbs.

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.

Bad things happen to the people close to Robert Durst; his wife disappears without a trace; his best friend is killed in her home; his neighbor is dismembered and thrown in the Galveston Bay.