—This true-crime series revisits haunting murder investigations through the eyes of one person -- the heartbroken sister, the restless detective, the dogged reporter -- at the emotional and dramatic center of a case. Utterly unique, the single storyteller recounts an intimate experience, played out via stylized re-enactments, but his or her point of view and the story that is told may be more surprising than expected.

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Season 16 of 7 Episodes

In 1986, Cheryl Pierson's father is shot and killed in his driveway, leaving Cheryl and her siblings orphans; in pursuit of his murderer, detectives uncover an unholy family secret and an unlikely assassin.
After Dawn Smith's sister, Shari, is abducted, Dawn receives taunting telephone calls from Shari's kidnapper and provides assistance to the police in the hopes of bringing her sister back alive.
After missing 3-year-old Riley Fox is found murdered, her father, Kevin, confesses to the crime; however, Fox's attorney Kathleen Zellner knows there is more to his confession than meets the eye, and embarks on a mission to set the record straight.
After the mysterious disappearance of her teenage brother, Lacresha Stanton launches a relentless investigation to extricate the truth from his tightlipped circle of supposed friends.
After Kenneth Cloud is shot outside a restaurant as his wife looks on, Detective Bill Martin goes down a path of lonely hearts and polygamous drifters to nail the shooter.
Carol Bushard's adopted son, Andy, disappears just after Christmas; while police fail to act, Carol and her husband blaze their own investigative trail through the criminal backwoods of a California mountain town.

This true-crime series revisits haunting murder investigations through the eyes of one person -- the heartbroken sister, the restless detective, the dogged reporter -- at the emotional and dramatic center of a case. Utterly unique, the single storyteller recounts an intimate experience, played out via stylized re-enactments, but his or her point of view and the story that is told may be more surprising than expected.

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