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...

A sultry waitress gets fingered for brutally murdering her husband’s ex-wife. After her brazen prison escape turns the convicted killer into a national celebrity, questions about the case against her come to light.

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

All appears well in this upscale suburb of Detroit. But when a mother of two is bludgeoned to death and then stabbed repeatedly in her own garage, police and the community are shocked when the investigation leads close to home.

When an openly gay student is brutally murdered police must investigate every lead. And some will lead where they don’t wish to follow. Four young boys live in horrific conditions, will they live long enough to be free?

The wife of an internationally renowned Ivy League professor is murdered, and the killer is the last person anyone would have expected, and a Phoenix postman is accused of murder and is sentenced to death, but did he do it? Follow his story.

An Ohio woman is implicated in murder, was she the puppet master or an innocent bystander? Even the prosecutor has his doubts. When a young girl from Idaho is kidnapped only the gut instinct of two strangers can save her.

When John and Susan Sutton are shot in their Florida home, Susan is killed, and John survives, but he is blinded for life. Could this be the work of one of his high-end legal clients? As information surfaces investigators start looking closer to home