
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.

When Vicki Beckham was found dead in her car on the side of a mountain road, with very little evidence, police called it almost the perfect crime; but a series of clues blew the case open, taking them from a strip club bouncer to a Bishop's son.

Divorce wasn't enough to end the animosity between James and Linda Cooney; the bitterness continued until Linda shot James dead with a .357 Magnum; she claimed self-defense, but the only witness was their 10-year-old son.