Caitlin Schunn

Inez Santa Cruz was lured to a remote hunting ground to be murdered on the orders of her childhood friend and lover, Rosa Medina.

“The idea that someone would leave you out to rot in the woods is just a horrifying concept," Taylor Kuykendall, a former reporter for the Register-Herald, told Snapped after the remains of Cathy Jo McCoy were found.

After A.J. Harden's remains were discovered, Candy Jo Webb claimed she'd taken her grandfather to a retirement facility — but was unable to recall the name of the facility, raising police's suspicions.

“This is one cold-blooded female,” Todd Merrifield, a former Dekalb Co. police lieutenant said of Falicia Blakely's murderous rampage. “That just does what she needs to do and does what she wants to do. I don’t know if I’d ever seen anything like that.”

Amateur detective work is getting more high-tech with better results as the internet and web companies like Xfinity continue to improve. 

After Ben Renick was found dead in his snake breeding facility, Missouri officers uncovered a web of betrayal, affairs, and financial problems. 

What looked like an accidental death in a house fire turned out to be an elaborate plot for Linda Leedom to kill her next-door neighbor Lula Young.

Kenneth McMillion was found dead in a Louisiana swamp tied to cinder blocks with a gunshot wound in his back.

"I guess everybody has got that one person that you just can't shake, and I believe that was his," Jeff Boldridge, the brother of murder victim Kurt Boldridge, said of Kurt's ex-wife, Lisa. 

It seemed like an open-and-shut case of self-defense until police learned more about Priscilla Bradford's relationship with her husband, John.