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.

A landscaper with an obsession for his client won't take no for an answer.

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...

A body is found engulfed in flames in a Los Angeles alley. He's thought to be the victim of brutal gang violence, but a tip soon leads police to the victim's ex. When new evidence is unearthed years later, it's clear the police were dead wrong.

Rick and Suzanna Wamsley are at odds with their children. When the happy couple are found shot and stabbed to death in their own home at Christmastime, investigators must untie a tangled knot of family conflicts to solve the puzzling case.

Montgomery, Alabama’s upper crust social circle is about to play host to an uninvited party guest. Murder is on the menu when one family’s distrust and finger pointing lead detectives on a cross-country trek for a killer.

On Thanksgiving, police officers are sent out on a welfare check and uncover an unthinkable triple homicide. To unmask the killer, detectives must uncover a victim's secrets and examine a hidden world of disinheritance, rage, and dark accusations

It’s love at first sight for a young New Jersey couple until jealousy and suspicion of infidelity lead to a string of bitter arguments after their wedding. The beautiful bride turns vicious when she stabs her husband and he nearly loses his life.

A New York City mother of four meets the man of her dreams until he starts using drugs and repeatedly abusing her. Just when she thinks he’s gotten rid of his demons, he brutally attacks her and in a fight for her life she stabs him to death.