People Magazine Investigates

In 1992, a college student disappears after her car breaks down on the highway. Family and friends join police in a frantic search that hits one setback after another. It may take new advances in DNA technology to finally crack this stubborn case.

A Christian couple's weekend getaway takes a tragic turn when they are found murdered on a northern California beach. Satanic imagery found nearby leads local Sheriff's deputies on a manhunt complicated by a cagey killer who covered his tracks.

On Thanksgiving Day 2018, in the mountains of Colorado a young pilot goes missing without a trace, leaving behind her baby. Police follow the few clues they have and unravel a story far more bizarre and horrifying than anyone could have imagined.

A quiet rural town is rocked when two middle school girls go on a hike and are later found murdered. But when police discover one of the girls may have recorded her killer with her cellphone, the race is on to find the mysterious man.

A college student working as a radio station intern far from home is murdered, launching a long and frustrating investigation that leaves family and police on the brink of hopelessness until forensic genealogy leads to a man on the run for decades.

A woman is murdered the same night she's supposed to go out with rising star, Ashton Kutcher. Police believe the clues point to a serial killer. As the number of victims climbs, one brave woman manages to survive.

In June 2003, a five-year-old girl walks around the corner to her friend's house and vanishes into thin air. As police investigate, they realize this quaint Midwest community is hiding some disturbing secrets that may never be fully uncovered.

In 2001, actor Robert Blake finds his new wife, Bonny Lee Bakely, shot in the head in the couple's car. The largest homicide investigation in LAPD history uncovers a story of blind ambition and betrayal.

A teenage boy pleads guilty to the murders of two prominent members of an Arkansas family. For more than twenty years, one of the victim's daughters insists he is innocent. She succeeds in winning his parole but now must confront his true nature.

A Texas woman is brutally raped and murdered, and the trial sparks a racially charged debate over whether an innocent man has been condemned to death. But as new evidence comes to light, it seems her family may never know who killed Stacey Stites.

In December 2003, police respond to a mysterious 911 call at a home in the tony Walnut Estates in Mansfield, Texas. When authorities enter they discover two bloodied bodies. The key to finding the killer is within one of the victim's grasp.

Two days before the new millennium, the Freeman family trailer burns to the ground. The couple lies dead with gunshot wounds to the head, but their teenage daughter and her friend are nowhere to be found.