On The Case with Paula Zahn

A Wilmington, North Carolina, woman is reported missing after she fails to show up for her own birthday celebration. Police never imagined that their investigation would ultimately reveal a gruesome second crime.

A man calls 911, saying his wife had been shot when she walked in on a robbery, and that he had used deadly force on the intruder. The investigation of what seems like an open-and-shut case of self defense reveals the secrets of several past murders.

The daughter of an FBI agent is abducted from the Tucson airport, where she had gone to pick up her husband. Months later, her body is found in a shallow grave, sparking what would become one of the FBI's longest homicide investigations.

When an 8-year-old girl never makes it home from school, police launch a massive search. The only lead they have is a series of frightening and sexual calls the family had received in the weeks leading up to her disappearance.

A recently-separated woman is found strangled in a scenic canyon in Colorado. The evidence indicated she was likely killed by someone she loved, but it would take police decades to pin down where the real betrayal had come from.

It's two days before Christmas when two men burst into Michael Brinkman's home demanding money. Seven minutes later, the robbers are gone, Brinkman is dead from a gunshot wound to the chest, and some strange but critical evidence has been left behind.

A detective moonlighting at an Atlanta hotel is fatally wounded in a furious gun battle with two robbers. The case goes cold for more than 25 years, until an unusual call comes in from an unlikely informant.

Police look at three potential motives in a Canadian Air Force officer's murder. Had he been attacked after a late-night errand, could his job on a top-secret military base been a factor, or was he killed by someone he knew and trusted?

When Wendi Brant was found brutally murdered in 1998, her estranged husband quickly became a person of interest. But he wasn't the only potential suspect, and this case would continue to baffle police for decades.

A couple answers a classified ad to buy a collectible motorcycle, but is never seen again. The ad turns out to be an untraceable fake, and the case will go cold for years until an unlikely witness comes forward.

When a young teacher fails to show up for work, her principal looks for her at her home, where he makes a shocking discovery. Unfortunately, the case would go cold until DNA technology helps police track down her killer.

Nearly four decades after the brutal murder of Elaine Fogle, a detective is asked to investigate the unsolved case once again. He enlists the help of a retired investigator who had stored away an important clue in a rusty filing cabinet decades ago.

A car is discovered abandoned in the middle of a New Jersey bridge, with the keys inside and no driver in sight. Detectives look at three possibilities. Sarah Stern either ran way, jumped off the bridge, or was the victim of foul play.

A 13-year-old does not return from her daily bike ride, and three weeks later, joggers make a grim discovery. Police and news media connect her case to another girl's abduction and murder five months earlier, but it will take decades to uncover the truth.

A woman is at first thought to be the victim a deadly hit-and-run, until police find the car that killed her nearby, and it turns out to be her own.