murder

Presents an inside look at the New York City police department's Cold Case Squad, a group of detectives charged with trying to solve murders that are sometimes decades old, and follows them as they work to find answers to four unsolved murder cases going back as far as 1951.

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Explores how the town of Jasper, Texas was forced to face its racist past after three white men chained a forty-nine-year-old African-American man named James Byrd Jr. to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road on June 7, 1998.

Tells the story of the discovery that fingerprints could be used to identify criminals, discussing the pioneering work of Dr. Henry Faulds, and reviews the 1905 murder case in which fingerprint evidence was first put to the test.

Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.

Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.

Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son Scott, believing the young man had committed suicide, but when he arrives he begins to suspect Scott was murdered and he is driven by grief, anger, and love to try and understand his son's death.

Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

Tells of the murder of a fourteen-year old African-American girl by a white man in a small town in Georgia just after World War II.