Murder by the Book

In 1958 Jean Ellroy, a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was strangled and her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy LA suburb. Her killer was never found and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.

Faye Kellerman presents a one hour special on a classic sociopath: Tonica Jenkins from East Cleveland. In 1997, Tonica, a 22 year old 'evil-genius' scams her way into an exclusive Yale University neurobiology degree course using forged documentation.

25-year-old Portland, ME resident Amy St. Laurent disappears.What follows is a vast, multi-jurisdictional effort, with unprecedented collaboration between law enforcement agencies.

On the morning of July 7, 1997, the day-shift manager of a Georgetown Starbucks Coffee Shop arrives and finds the bodies of employees Emory Evans, Aaron Goodrich and Caity Mahoney who had worked the night before.

A gunman in a black mask ambushes 70-year-old William Overson and shoots him to death in his vehicle outside of a golf course in San Diego on April 12, 2004.

When Karyn Hearn Slover's car is found abandoned near her Decatur, Illinois workplace, nobody expects the tragedy that is to follow.

Housewife and church-member Betty Gore is found murdered in her own home. She has been axed to death 41 times. Wylie Police Department's investigation tracks down Betty's friend Candace Montgomery.

Mark Winger, a husband and father, catches a man in the act of bludgeoning his wife to death.

Even before her mysterious disappearance, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is destined to be infamous. Once pegged "The Most Hated Woman in America," it is Madalyn who effectively gets prayer removed from schools in 1964.

When 44-year-old husband and father Jeff Zack is gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police are initially baffled.