In the early morning hours of July 29, 1995, 13-year-old Thad Phillips is kidnapped by seventeen-year old Joe Clark, a local boy who has snuck into the Phillips' house. Over the next two days, he will viciously and methodically torture the young boy.

19-year-old Katya is growing desperate. She's been held by human traffickers for a year and forced into prostitution at a strip club. After eight months of torture, she begins to plot her escape.

Nearly one thousand people are living and working in Jim Jones People's Temple. Yet, to 18 yr old Brenda Parks, Jonestown in more hellish prison than heaven on earth. Brenda and her family secretly begin hatching a plan to escape.

In October 1983, Tami Ashcraft, 24, and her boyfriend accept a job to sail a yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. But they encounter a dangerous category four storm, and the radio is dead. But, after a month lost at sea Tami finally makes it to land.

Eric Le Marque, a 34-year-old former Olympian for hockey had been snow boarding in the mountains, but now he's lost. He will learn the limits of what the human body can endure -- and that Mother Nature takes no prisoners.

Cynthia Vigil is being held and tortured by Ray and his female accomplice. She knows she must escape or face certain death.

Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid had been fishing in the Sea of Cortez when they noticed the light was fading and the winds were picking up. What came next landed them on a barren, inhospitable island, stranded, for two weeks.

Karen Kummerer is in the bathroom of a restaurant. Two days earlier, her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her at knifepoint, forced her into his car and began to drive. She leaves notes hoping that someone will alert authorities, it's her only way to escape.

Star Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor is shot dead by an intruder in his Miami home. And when it comes to the rich and famous, it seems like everybody has a motive...

San Diego police race to catch a killer with an unthinkable calling card.

A brutal double homicide shatters two families.

A young woman is found savagely murdered in her new home. Will the trail of clues police discovered lead them to her killer?

A mother of four is found handcuffed and murdered in the passenger seat of her car.

The murder of a beloved and talented church organist sends police on a disturbing search for answers.

A successful car salesman is killed in a hail of gunfire that erupted on his front porch.

A mother finds her teenage daughter savagely murdered inside their own home. Will a few drops of blood discovered decades later be the key to solving the tragic mystery?