Murders

"He just says, ‘I hit her until she wasn’t alive anymore,’” said a district attorney of the confession.

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.  

A hit man and his alleged conspirator feared that an honest chart director could expose their dirty business.

“My uncle and my stepfather both went into the woods and only one came out,” Angel Wells, daughter of Lillie Mae Eubank, said on Snapped.

Seventy-year-old sailor Fernando Silva, also known as "Captain Fredy," was rumored to have earned some Keno winnings shortly before his mysterious 2015 death. 

Two “kindly looking grandmother types” who helped down-on-their-luck men at a Hollywood church were the surprise beneficiaries.

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.