
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 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.

When three high-schoolers are gunned down in their car, police launch an investigation into why they came to such a violent end; ten years later, that investigation reaches a dramatic conclusion in an Albuquerque courtroom.

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.