
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.

David Coffin's house burned down with him in it, but it wasn't the fire that killed him, it was the bullet in his head; investigators immediately focused on Scott Davis, the estranged husband of Coffin's new girlfriend.

When the bodies of Ruby Joyner and Halima Jones were discovered beaten, strangled and shot, police turned to someone they both knew; but Lewis Joyner was nowhere to be found.

When Atlanta homemaker Sara Tokars is kidnapped, shot and killed in front of her two young children, police are baffled; the answer may lie in the home safe of her husband Fred.

When Maggie Locascio is found brutally murdered in her home, everybody points to her estranged husband, Ed; but when Ed turns up with an airtight alibi, investigators follow a trail of evidence that leads them through the Locascio family.