Joe Dziemianowicz

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the search for a missing 20-year-old man turned into a twisted homicide case.

Detectives uncovered a complex murder-for-hire plot after Melvin "Lil Phat" Vernell was killed at the hospital where his fiancé was waiting to give birth.

Despite a duplicitous witness, detectives were able to discover who murdered an 18-year-old woman inside her Staten Island home.

Dogged detective work and license plate reading technology combine to crack a savage family massacre.

A killer with “a thirst for blood” left a trail of women’s bodies in Middletown, NY and later told reporters he enjoyed doing it.

Investigators follow a trail of voodoo curses and a friendship gone deadly to solve a brutal Brooklyn homicide.

“Someone struck his forehead and top of his head with such force that there were streaks of blood droplets that were streaming down the wall,” said Clint Rucker, a former executive district attorney in Fulton County.

Investigators looked for the link between two brutally families murdered just days apart in Virginia. A wedding ring proved key to solving the cases.

In 2000, Detroit police searched for the deranged serial killer who posed  and had sex with his victims. 

Detectives uncovered a family plot and a fatal prophecy after a jeweler, Mario Hernandez, vanished.