
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 drug-addicted casino owner Ted Binion turns up dead in his mansion, the suspects are pure Vegas: an ex-stripper girlfriend, a contractor who knew where his silver was buried, and a mob boss who launders money through his casino.

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.

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.