Killer Cases

New Year's Eve and police body cam video captured the heartbroken cries of young Army Sergeant Kemia Hassel as she cradled her dying husband in her arms. But investigators soon accused Kemia of directing a murder-for-hire plot with the help of a lover.

Margaret and Chad Amato and their youngest son Cody were found dead, shot execution-style in their suburban Seminole Florida home. Suspicion quickly turned to middle son Grant, a trained nurse, who had quarreled with his family over money.

When Victoria Prokopovitz went missing in 2013, her three grown children were beside themselves with worry. Her husband, James, seemed oddly unconcerned. A detective learned James had been carrying on a secret affair.

A single mom and pizza delivery driver was murdered on a late-night run. Police arrested her boyfriend who refused to tell police who had helped him, protecting his then-wife. But that changed when he found out she had cheated on him.

When Brandi Peters and her three children were found murdered in Tallahassee in 2010, prosecutors pointed the finger at her ex-boyfriend. But as the trial got underway, an imprisoned drug dealer came forward, saying he had ordered the murders.

College senior Samantha went missing and her body was found 24 hours later, with more than a hundred stab wounds. Surveillance footage showed her getting into an Uber and quickly the driver was arrested. But he claimed someone had stolen his car.

Dallas dentist Dr. Kendra Hatcher was in a deep romance with fellow doctor Ricardo Paniagua when she was brutally murdered in the garage of her apt building. Police arrested a couple who revealed a more sinister murder plot.

When 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts went missing during her regular evening jog, her disappearance was headline news. Police had few clues until a local resident shared his garage surveillance camera.

Thirteen-year-old Dylan flew to Colorado for a court-ordered long-distance visit with his dad, Mark. And when the boy didn't show up for a playdate the next morning, he was reported missing, setting off a manhunt in the rough Colorado wilderness terrain.

Florida v. Russell Holbrook, 2019. The quiet community of Crestview, Florida was shaken following the vicious murder of beautiful 33-year-old nurse Melissa Howard, described as a caring angel, found with her throat slashed in her own living room.