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This newsmagazine investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.
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    The Plot to Kill Dr. Sievers
    The Facebook Detectives
    The Two Faces of Todd Winkler
    Expert Witness
    Secrets of a Marriage
    My Father's Killer
    The Pretender
    The Tara Grinstead Mystery
    The Puzzling Death of Susann Sills

  • A woman is stabbed in her New Jersey home in the middle of the night by a 16-year-old stranger who took a lighter and car keys, and left her for dead.
  • The Plot to Kill Dr. Sievers

    Prosecutors claim a Florida man hired his look-alike best friend to kill his wife, who he believed was planning to take their kids and leave him.
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  • The Facebook Detectives

    Three women use Facebook to investigate a friend's disappearance.
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  • The Two Faces of Todd Winkler

    Todd Winkler, a former fighter jet pilot, claims he was defending himself when he stabbed his wife to death with scissors.
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  • Expert Witness

    This report focuses on the use of expert witnesses in criminal trials and the problems that arise when their testimony is inaccurate or completely false.
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  • Secrets of a Marriage

    A successful woman's death at first appears to be a suicide, but after further investigation the police begin to suspect her estranged husband.
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This newsmagazine investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Starring

Erin Moriarty, Peter Van Sant, Natalie Morales, Jim Axelrod, David Begnaud, Jericka Duncan, Michelle Miller, Jonathan Vigliotti, Maureen Maher, Richard Schlesinger, Tracy Smith, Troy Roberts, Susan Spencer
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