“The victim was lying with half his upper body inside the bathtub,” an LAPD detective told The Real Murders of Los Angeles. "There was a pool of blood by his head."

Victor Paleologus repeatedly preyed on women with big dreams before meeting Kristi Johnson at a mall and telling her to wear a "black miniskirt, nylons and stiletto heels" to a phony film audition.

After slow-cooking his wife Dawn's body to render it, chef David Viens dumped it out as kitchen waste, he confessed.

Officer Martin Ganz's 12-year-old nephew was with him for a ride-along the night he was killed. The traumatized boy became a key witness.

A photograph of Mary Ellen Samuels naked underneath a pile of "blood money" was a key piece of evidence in the murder of her husband Bob Samuels.

Ellis Henry Greene had a dream of opening a bakery in Los Angeles, but he fell into the clutches of three men willing to murder for money.

DNA analysis revealed that the bite on the victim was made by a woman. It was the key to unlock the cold case.

Ron Baker, a 21-year-old college junior with an interest in mysticism, was found with his throat slashed in the notoriously nicknamed "Manson Tunnel."

Photographer Charles Rathbun claimed he accidentally hit Linda Sobek with a car. The evidence told Los Angeles detectives the more sinister truth.

"Act as fast as you can" when someone goes missing, advises Denise Villanueva, friend of murder victim Linda Sobek. “We respected the process, but we pushed the process.”