Benjamin H. Smith

Billy Rouse told investigators that after blowing off his father’s lower jaw with a shotgun, he beat him until “he quit moving.”

Kim Paris, a 23-year-old Navy flight controller, was assigned to go undercover and get close to David West, the former boyfriend of murder suspect Cynthia Campbell Ray.

While Thomas Gilbert, Jr. Was tall, fit, and good-looking, friends described him as awkward and prone to violent outbursts.

Maria Hernandez wired her brother $800 to murder her husband, Enrique Hernandez, after he found out she was having an affair.

Almost a year after Paul Shealey’s body was found floating in a creek, Danielle “Deaucy” Reddick confessed to dumping his remains after his friend, Olicia Lee, gunned him down.

Almost three decades after the murder of Corey Wieneke, investigators received a tip that blew the investigation wide open.

After her husband’s death, Janice Bonnell inquired about his life insurance policy, which paid out only $19,000. 

When Dawn Wagner refused to let her daughter, Sarah Vercauteren, borrow her car to pick up heroin, Vercauteren grabbed a hammer and hit her mother 18 times.

Serial killer Derrick Todd Lee was tied to seven brutal Louisiana murders through DNA evidence in 2003.

A few years after Audrey Marie Hilley killed her husband, Frank Hilley, with arsenic, she began dosing her daughter with the same poisonous cocktail.