Jill Sederstrom

When Arelie Garcia, 25, didn't show up to her job near her Salinas apartment and stopped responding to messages from family, they knew something was wrong. 

Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer decided that dismissing the case was the “only warranted remedy” after new revelations.

Solving this decades-old cold case took one woman's courageous choice to come forward, advances in DNA technology, and some chilling words from the killer himself. 

Chris Kruse told authorities that he and wife Jan had fallen asleep and he woke up in the middle of the night to a loud bang, then got up and saw Jan sit up and say, “Oh my God,” before he realized she'd been shot.

For months, Chris Smith's family believed he was taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, until discovering the heartbreaking truth.

Novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy played the part of a grieving widow when her husband Dan Brophy was gunned down, but surveillance video, her online search history and financial motives implied otherwise.  

Bob and Jane Bashara had a seemingly idyllic life in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, until Jane was found dead and her husband's secret life and dark fantasies were exposed. 

Newlyweds Scott Pierce and Katherine Bailey's new home put them on a collision course with a dangerous serial killer hired to target someone else.     

Joshua Wade confessed to killing five people, beginning when he was just 14 years old. 

Nick Hacheney was viewed as a charismatic and devout man of God, but parishioners would say he used his faith to manipulate others in dangerous ways.