
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.

When Kathryn Hauser was found brutally murdered in her Albuquerque home, friends and family immediately thought it was her estranged husband; but the DNA points elsewhere.

John Harper terrorized his neighbors on Dictionary Hill; he hurled curses, threw stones and drove cars off the road; when local police failed to stop him, one resident took matters, and a pistol, into his own hands.

The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.

After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body was discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.