Episode 1
Aired Jun 3, 2006
A Killer's Skin; Where's Peggy?
Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly man; the contents of a secret storage shed hold the clues to a murder that has gone cold for more than 14 years.
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Episode 1
Aired Dec 15, 2005
Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer
Nearly 20 years after they first suspect him, police arrest Gary Ridgway, the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history.
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Episode 2
Aired Dec 22, 2005
Finding BTK
BTK Dennis Rader terrorizes Wichita, Kan., for decades, leaving at least 10 murder victims in his wake.
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Episode 2
Aired Sep 20, 2007
Innocence Files
College students take on the cases of jailed murderers who claim they are innocent; the students visit the inmates, track down key witnesses and seek DNA testing to prove their clients' innocence.
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Episode 3
Aired Jan 14, 2006
Death of a Deacon; A Wife's Mission
When a church deacon is found shot to death it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot; a wife remains a key suspect in her husband's murder case for six years, until she attempts to prove her own innocence.
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Episode 4
Aired Jan 21, 2006
Snatched; A Detective's Promise
A detective tracks down a man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier; police search for the killer of an 18-year-old hitchhiker.
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Episode 5
Aired Feb 4, 2006
The Sunday Morning Slasher
Publicity of a man's mandatory release in Texas brings forth a witness to a murder after 24 years in Michigan.
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Episode 6
Aired Feb 11, 2006
Caught on Tape; A Son to Remember
A cell phone and an ATM card lead to the apprehension of a rapist.
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Episode 7
Aired Feb 18, 2006
On the Case: Nacole's Killer
Det. Vince Velazquez of Atlanta and Capt. Russell Popham of East Point, Ga., work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes.
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Episode 8
Aired Apr 2, 2006
Killer on Campus; The Bow Hunter
DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student; a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.
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Episode 9
Aired Apr 7, 2006
Something Snapped; a Killer's Dream
In 1987, a young girl is found raped and strangled; in 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work.
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Episode 9
Aired Oct 7, 2006
NCIS; Exhuming the Truth
After U.S. Navy sailor disappears in 68, the Navy claims he went AWOL; but his sister works for over 30 years to prove that he was really killed; DNA from a cigarette butt helps detectives to unravel a 20-year-old case of rape and murder.
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Episode 10
Aired May 6, 2006
Daddy Dearest; A Pastor's Wife
A wiretapped conversation between a suspected killer and his sister cracks a 9-year-old murder case; a geologist finds human bones, solving the murder of a Virginia woman.
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Episode 11
Aired Oct 28, 2006
Abandoned Houses; A Son's Memory
Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio; a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing person case goes cold when police can find few clues.
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Episode 12
Aired Jul 8, 2006
Innocence Stolen; Danger at the Door
Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.
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Episode 13
Aired Jul 15, 2006
The Interrogation; The Slide
A brother is a suspect in the case of a 12-year-old found dead in her home in 1998; a 69-year-old woman is the victim of rape and murder in 1984.
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Episode 14
Aired Dec 31, 2006
Murder He Wrote; Caught by the Past
Guns found dumped in a pond help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab company owner; the rape and murder of an Atlanta TV station receptionist goes cold for 20 years before DNA links a man to the crime.
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Episode 14
Aired Jul 29, 2006
The Taunt; Death in Deadwood
In 1995, two women are raped in Louisville, Ky.; in 1982, a young man is found murdered in Deadwood, S.D.
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Episode 15
Aired Aug 12, 2006
On the Case: A Child Remembers
Detective Danny Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman.
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Episode 15
Aired Dec 31, 2006
Left for Dead; On the Case
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killer; the investigations of a woman's murder and the death of a man killed in a car crash use DNA analysis.
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Episode 16
Aired Sep 9, 2006
The Black Dahlia
In 1947, actress Elizabeth Short's corpse is found nude and bisected in an empty lot.
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Episode 17
Aired Sep 23, 2006
The Deadly Stroll; Unholy Secret
Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes; a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.
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Episode 18
Aired Sep 30, 2006
A Deadly Affair; The Sting Operation
A banker is beaten to death in his bed; a man with a guilty conscience helps police.
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Episode 20
Aired Oct 21, 2006
Cross Country Connection; Eyes at the Window
The 1988 rape and murder of a California woman; a jailhouse snitch.
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Episode 22
Aired Nov 18, 2006
A Knock at the Door; Shattered
A 25-year-old woman is killed in a hotel room in 1978; a 25-year-old woman is shot to death during a jewelry-store robbery in 1980.
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Episode 23
Aired Dec 24, 2006
A Deadly Pattern; A Desperate Housewife
A woman is found murdered in her mobile home; an Oregon man is shot dead.
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Episode 26
Aired Jul 26, 2007
The Execution of Michael Johnson
Hours before Michael Johnson is scheduled to die by injection, the victim's family awaits justice, and the inmate's family braces for what it believes is unjust punishment.
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Episode 28
Aired Oct 14, 2007
Evidence Kit
A member of the Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA Initiative to fund the testing of rape kits; a deputy district attorney in Sacramento County, Calif., uses a DNA grant to find a killer.
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