Evil Lives Here: Shadows Of Death

In 1988, a man is released from jail after a judge deems his murder confession false. For 25 years, a familys hope for justice fades, as the killer walks the streets. But one tenacious detective refuses to let this cold case go.

One night in 1993, in Manhattan Beach, California, an officer is shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. The only witness is a young boy who is too terrified to tell police what he saw.

In 1996, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a young mother is found dead on the side of a rural stretch of highway in an apparent hit-and-run accident. But as the family grieves, the façade begins to crack, and soon the truth seeps out.

In 1995, a beloved mother is found raped and murdered in the accounting office where she works. The bloody body of her young daughter is nearby. But as police photograph the scene, they get the shock of their careers.

In 2003, a young man in Georgia shoots his father in the head sixteen times. Days later, the body of a nun is found on the side of a Virginia road. The story behind these two crimes haunts those involved to this day.

In 2003 in Burlington, North Carolina, pregnant April Greer vanishes. Her boyfriend says she left him, and her family is worried sick. No one knows that the unbearable truth about what really happened to April is the stuff of nightmares.

For two years, in Dallas, Texas, surgical patients fall victim to Christopher Duntsch, a monster with a scalpel and a medical degree. Dallas Assistant District Attorney Michelle Shughart isnt sure what to think when she is first approached with the case. Is this medical malpractice? Or an evil man with a scalpel?

When an Idaho woman dies of a suspected drug overdose in 1999, the case seems open and shut until her 3-year-old daughter gives a chilling statement to police. Now, that daughter wants to know why it took the police so long to believe her.

In 1984, a police sergeants 12-year-old daughter goes out to deliver the local paper and doesnt return. An immediate and frantic city-wide search only turns up more questions.

After a savage beating that nearly kills a young mother, Omaha investigators learn that shes not the only victim. They launch a relentless search for the killer and quickly realize their most crucial clue might die with their victim.

In 2005, a woman fails to show up at a Motley Crue concert and is never seen again; to this day, her friends and family wait for her killer to visit her secret grave.

When the perpetrator of a brutal shooting claims no randomness to his murders, a prosecutor must untangle fact from fiction.

Lisa Reeves wasnt looking for love when she met Randy Gwathney - what she got, instead, was bloodshed.

In 2004, the cat-and-mouse hunt for a serial killer targeting black females antagonizes investigators in Peoria, Ill.

In 1995, when a 14-year-old girl in Happy Valley, Washington, goes missing, detectives uncover a grim family secret.

For six months in 2014, a serial killer preys upon innocent victims in Los Angeles.

After a Valentines dance in 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker is kidnapped by a man with a gun. For 45 years, the case goes unsolved, and no one knows that the person responsible is living uncomfortably close, hiding in plain sight.

In 2008, a real estate developer finds his glamorous wife Kay Wenal slashed from ear to ear in her Georgia home; with few clues in the case, investigators quickly learn that all is not what it seems in her picture-perfect life. [also shown as S3:E12]

In 2011, as the manhunt for a dangerous cop killer rages across Athens, Ga., police get a call from the man they are looking for; hes not alone and has hostages, and police fear he wants to go down in a blaze of glory.