Buried in the Backyard

Advances in DNA evidence was key to finally closing the brutal 40-year-old double homicide.

The arrest of members of a Russian mob gang helped investigators finally crack the case that had gone cold.

The search for the killer of young women in North Pole, Alaska, leads investigators to the local air force base.

Being pen pals with prison inmates, a detective said, put the victim “in the path of a potential predator."

The search for a missing man leads investigators to a deadly con, an international manhunt and a grim discovery in the desert.

Rumors about Jerry Johnson and a missing woman led to one man committing a violent crime.

After years of searching by investigators, the killer's son gave them the clue that cracked the case open.

A sheriff investigating the murder of a 19-year-old woman he'd worked with called it "the worst case of mutilation" he'd ever seen.

Investigators searching for a missing widow get caught up with the federal hunt for notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper.

The search for a beloved missing 17-year-old California girl leads to a deadly conspiracy by a pair closest to her.