Nightmare Next Door

23-year-old Stephanie Bennett is brutally raped and murdered in her suburban Raleigh apartment. Investigators work the case for years but their leads go nowhere. A closer look at a peeping tom provides police the break they desperately need.

Michele Harris disappears without a trace on September 11, 2001. Investigators wonder whether this mother of four would leave behind her children and run away from her soured marriage. When tiny blood splatters are found in the home, police begin to suspect that Michele met a more sinister end.

Ann Branson is found viciously stabbed and beaten to death in her Western Kentucky home. There is little evidence at the crime scene and investigators struggle to determine a motive. Ann's financial records provide the break authorities need to help catch the killer overseas.

When Austin York, Matt Self, Mark Barbosa, and Rosa Barbosa are found shot dead in a McKinney, Texas home, detectives embark on a three-year investigation with no end in sight. And just when it seems like the murders may never be solved, an eyewitness comes forward and breaks the case wide open.

In Portsmouth, VA, a father comes home to find his 16-year-old daughter brutally stabbed to death. With DNA evidence and fingerprints at the scene, police hope for an open and shut case. However, with no hits, the case goes unsolved for months until a piece of bubble gum points to an unlikely suspect.

Karin Strom is discovered strangled to death in her North Salt Lake home. When a suspect emerges, investigators don't have enough evidence for a conviction. It will take twenty-six years to ultimately prove their case, and the final outcome surprises everyone when the real killer emerges.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, 22-year-old graduate student Katie Sepich disappears after leaving a college party, only to be found raped, strangled, and burned to death in a nearby landfill the following morning. News of the grisly murder leaves a college town gripped in fear and detectives scratching their heads as to who could have committed such a heinous crime.

Not much happens in sleepy Port Hueneme, California so when a hard working mother of two young boys, Norma Rodriguez, is found dead in her home, it sends shockwaves through the tiny seaside town. The local police department looks to calm concern after the homicide, but when two additional murders hit the town that summer the community is crippled with fear. Rumors of a serial killer run rampant.

The seaside town of Santa Barbara is a picturesque resort community, but on the night of July 9, 2004, the quiet is shattered by a single gunshot - a shot that ends the life of 27-year-old grad student, Jarrod Davidson. As detectives dig deep into Jarrod's private life they soon discover that this sunny California boy just may have gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd.

Successful Korean-American business owner Robert Chae and his family are brutally attacked in their suburban Philadelphia house. The home invasion turns deadly when Chae is bound and beaten to death. As investigators dig further, they discover an alarming connection to the attack that shocks the family and sends investigators racing to protect the Chae's from one of their very own.

Bloomsbury, New Jersey is such a quaint little town Norman Rockwell could've painted it himself. So when 38-year-old Monica Massaro is viciously murdered in her house on Main Street it leaves a dark stain on this picture-perfect scene. The race for the killer is on when the police receive a chance tip from 300 miles away.

Safety Harbor, FL is a quiet community nestled between the calm waters of the Tampa Bay and the roaring tourism of the Atlantic beaches. And it's at the end of one of Safety Harbor's many cul-de-sacs that thirty-two year old, Nikki Halpin, is brutally beaten to death in her own home, in front of her two young sons.

When 18-year-old Brittany Loritts is found raped and murdered in her Salisbury, North Carolina home, investigators are at a loss as to who would commit such a heinous crime. With no murder weapon or physical evidence, the investigation pauses. But when an unexpected suspect proves to have the opportunity and the motive to commit murder, the investigation gets red-hot.