Police must connect two vicious murders in order to bring a single killer to justice.

Maria Elena Salinas digs for the true stories behind national headline-making crimes in search of new evidence, unheard perspectives, and updates to the cases. The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas premieres Monday, April 24 at 10/9c.

In 1990, a teenager was convicted of murdering his parents. Forced into a confession by homicide detectives, Martin Tankleff spent twenty years trying to prove his innocence.

In 1990, a teenager was convicted of murdering his parents. Forced into a confession by homicide detectives, Martin Tankleff spent twenty years trying to prove his innocence.

When 22-year-old Erin Belanger and her boyfriend Francisco "Flacco" Roman move to Deltona, Florida, they're hoping for a new start. Little do they know the danger that awaits them.

A house in East Detroit is shot up, leaving four dead and one injured. 14-year-old Davontae Sanford admits that he committed the crime and provides investigators with a detailed sketch. But if he didn't do it, how did he draw an accurate diagram?

2004: A daycare provider in Corvallis, Oregon is alarmed when 2-year-old Karly Sheehan, one of her brightest and most energetic children, starts exhibiting strange new behavior while her hair appears to be falling out. Is it too late to save her?

In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan was barreling towards the Florida coast when Michelle Jones decides to invite her Aunt Teri and Uncle Charlie to ride out the storm. What was intended to be a fun visit turns into something much darker.

When Mary Rose's 15-year-old daughter, Annette, takes up with 41-year-old Felix Vail in 1981, Mary is concerned. But it's not until Annette disappears three years later without a trace, that Mary begins to discover Felix's dark history.

June 12, 2016: nearly 200 people are partying at Pulse Nightclub, a haven for the LGBTQ community. After last call, 29-yr-old Omar Mateen opens fire, killing 49 people & injuring more than 50 in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

1997, suburbs of Seattle: A body is found in a park and police are on their way to inform the victim's family, when they trip on the scene of a massacre. Their investigation leads them to Seattle’s Goth scene.

On September 10, 2003, in Joliet, Ill., Mexican immigrant Felipe Ulloa tells his wife Eloisa that he is going to a local bar to collect a $75 debt. He never returns. Police discover his charred remains in the back of a burnt-out vehicle.

In 2009, police uncover the most grisly murder scene in New Mexico history. After uncovering human remains on the West Mesa, Albuquerque PD launched an unprecedented investigation that leads to a serial killer on the loose.

Whenever he's home on leave, devoted father and military helicopter pilot Bob Yates loves videotaping his wife Linda and their four children. But when they move to Spokane, WA - those videos take a sinister turn.

In rural Ohio, an intruder brutally guns down Jack and Linda Myers in their sleep. The only witness is their sleepy four-year-old grandson. Now, members of the Myers family are speaking out about the horror of what happened that night.

When a mysterious illness strikes down Frank Hilley - the father of a prosperous family living in Anniston, Alabama - his widow Marie is forced to raise their two children alone. But then - the family starts receiving strange threats.