Lawyer John Sutton and his wife are shot execution style, in their Miami home. Incredibly John survives the attack and calls 911. And when officers arrive at his home in the luxurious Miami suburb of Coral Gables, they discover a trail of blood leading to the front door and John's wife Susan dead in her bedroom. Miraculously John survives, but there's little he can tell investigators about the attack. With the couple's valuables in plain sight, it's clear the motive is personal. Detectives search for a culprit, and before long they uncover a thriving law practice that made plenty of enemies, a business partner caught in a lie, and a troubled son with a lifelong grudge.

Real estate developer Andrew Kissel is found stabbed to death in the basement of his rented plush Greenwich, Connecticut home. The execution-style murder looks like a professional hit, and in order to find the killer detectives must unravel every detail of his last 24 hours. The investigation points towards Kissel's recently uncovered mortgage fraud scheme, from which he siphoned millions to fund his lavish lifestyle. This left a long list of potential suspects with enough motive for murder, but in order to carry it out the killer had to know he was home alone.

With a gunshot to her back, Miriam Illes-the estranged wife of a prominent surgeon-is found dead inside her locked Pennsylvania home. A bullet hole in the kitchen window speaks to a sniper-style assassination. But who would want to gun down the devoted mom and Sunday school teacher? Outside, the detectives find footprints, a cigarette butt, and a homemade silencer. Then comes a sensational series of letters from the assassin himself, that send investigators on a bizarre journey of contradictory clues and planted evidence. That is, until detectives unlock the killer's timeline and solve what was nearly the perfect murder.

A young woman is found floating in a river off Merritt Island, east of Orlando, Florida. And as the circumstantial evidence piles up, the shifting story of one suspects' timeline ultimately becomes the smoking gun.

Fifteen-year-old twin girls make a horrific after-school discovery when they come home to find their mother floating dead in the bathtub. Their compelling testimony leads the investigation, but the hair-raising truth lies hidden in the details. Written by decodex

When an 18-year-old Staten Island woman is murdered in her home, the media turns her secret into a front-page scandal. But a meticulously constructed timeline allows detectives to close in on their number one suspect.

A tight-knit Georgia community is in shock when a 41-year-old woman is bludgeoned to death in her own home. As detectives look to piece together her final hours, a story from behind bars reveals the shocking motive for murder.

Days before Halloween, an affluent Atlanta suburb is shocked by a real-life horror story. A five-year-old boy is stabbed 18 times when he returns home from school, and his mother's lifeless body is discovered in her bedroom. There are no signs of forced entry, but the evidence reveals that a bloodthirsty psychopath violently assaulted Karmen Smith and then lay in wait for her son. Piecing together the details of the pair's final day, detectives uncover multiple suspects, before a neighbor's chilling story dramatically shifts the focus of the investigation.

A few days before Christmas, a superintendent discovers the bodies of two young women-20-year-old Nikki Silas and 19-year-old Brittany Rojas-in their NYC apartment. One is floating in the tub and the other is sprawled on the bed. The apartment has been ransacked, and both girls have been strangled to death. The double homicide will only be solved via the trail of breadcrumbs scattered through the victims' last day. But the case soon becomes a media circus when investigators discover they were living a secret life. As the list of suspects grows to include a violent ex-boyfriend, and a mysterious sugar-daddy, detectives uncover evidence of a call made from inside the apartment within hours of the murder. Those few digits may be the only link to their brutal killer.

In a river near Manchester, New Hampshire, swimmers make a chilling discover - a bag containing a woman's torso. The victim is identified through missing persons as Mary Stetson, a hardworking mother of five. But no other body parts are found and police have no idea where the gruesome crime occurred. The frenzied multiple stab wounds to her chest, followed by the surgical dismemberment of her body, suggests everything from professional butcher to serial killer. As detectives work Mary's timeline to identify potential suspects, including a mysterious drifter named Razor, a one-eyed Teddy bear proves to be the key to bringing her killer to justice.

A Jacksonville firefighter discovers his wife's lifeless body in the bedroom of their home. His confession of infidelity initially makes him the prime suspect. But it's a stolen car caught on CCTV that ultimately leads investigators to the killer.