Susan Woods, 30, was discovered dead in the bathroom of her Stephenville, Texas home by her father in 1987 amid her divorce, after she failed to show up to work for two days.
It was 1984 when Jonelle Matthews, 12, disappeared, leaving behind a cold case that would echo through decades until an unlikely hero brought forth evidence crucial to solving it.
For 35 years, Jonelle Matthews' disappearance remained one of Colorado’s unrivaled cold cases. In 2019, a grim discovery 20 miles from her home changed everything.
Michigan mom Renee Pagel was found stabbed more than 50 times in her home on Aug. 5, 2006, just days after she donated one of her kidney's to the father of one of her nursing students.
After Donna Palomba was raped in her own bedroom as her children slept, police threatened to arrest her and it would take years for the surprising attacker to be caught.
The wounds California nurse Sherri Rasmussen suffered in her final moments of life were "extensive and disturbing," but it would take more than two decades to reveal the surprising killer.
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.
