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Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case
Motives and Murders: Cracking the Case

Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case

—Maybe it's the jealous ex, the co-worker seeking revenge, or perhaps a predator with an appetite for blood? Whatever the motives, crimes are most often solved by relentless investigators searching for the truth and following clues wherever they may lead. This series explores the emotional stories of those attempting to find closure in homicide investigations, from the victims' families to the dedicated police officers. Hourlong episodes present compelling versions of what may have happened and stylized re-enactments of events from different perspectives as new evidence emerges.
3 seasonsDocumentary, CrimeTV-14
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16 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Dancing With the Devil
    An Angel Taken
    This Can't Be Happening
    Screams of Silence
    Somebody Knows
    Where Her Future Ends
    Who Killed Daddy's Little Girl?
    Mommy Speak for Me
    California Girl Gone
    Sheltered From the Truth
  • Dancing With the Devil

    Years after a woman is shot, and the case goes cold, news of a potential prison confession leads investigators back to her front door.
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  • An Angel Taken

    In Oregon, 19-year-old college student Brooke Wilberger, a devout Mormon, is abducted from a parking lot in broad daylight, prompting a massive search that grabs headlines across the country.
    Upcoming
  • This Can't Be Happening

    The dumping of a woman's body prompts detectives to begin connecting the dots and find the link between seemingly random beatings, carjackings and murders.
    Upcoming
  • Screams of Silence

    Matthew Monahon returns home to discover his pregnant wife, Kelsey, hogtied on the floor and clinging to life, then she dies a few days later, and a $300,000 life insurance policy surfaces, turning Monahon into the number one suspect.
    Upcoming
  • Somebody Knows

    Kimberly Dunkin's body is found with a single gunshot wound to the head, and though investigators suspect she was the victim of gang violence, it will take 15 years, a deck of playing cards and a lucky break before the case breaks.
    Upcoming
  • Where Her Future Ends

    After the blood-soaked body of a young woman is found on the floor of her apartment in Orlando, Fla., it's up to investigators to find her killer before he strikes again.
    Upcoming

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Season 413 of 13 Episodes

  • Investigators must determine the identity of a murder victim whose skull was found on a highway in Florida.

  • Single mother Donna Kitowski heads to a Las Vegas supermarket late at night but never returns home, and soon the local TV news is reporting on a woman's near-lifeless body found in the desert.

  • Three blood-soaked dogs are the only witnesses to the brutal murder of Cathy Lamb in her Palm Beach, Fla., home, leaving detectives baffled by the gruesome crime scene.

  • During a slumber party, a man appears at 12-year-old Polly Klaas' bedroom door and abducts her at knifepoint.

  • The rape and murder of a 19-year-old journalism student in her bed is the latest in a string of unsolved homicides in a college town.

  • Police from three different states join the hunt for a serial rapist and murderer, known as the I-5 Killer, who is terrorizing communities along Interstate 5 on the West Coast.

  • A TV celebrity leads a major media campaign after a hardworking single mother is murdered in a Michigan town where violent crimes are nearly four times the national average.

  • In Kilgore, Texas, the residents are reeling from the execution-style slaying of five people abducted from a fast-food restaurant, and it will take several decades before the perpetrators are brought to justice.

  • After recording her first album, country singer Melissa Haferman is murdered and her body is dumped in a vacant lot near a bus depot in Louisville, Ky.

  • When a 20-year-old woman is gunned down in a Maryland suburb, the case goes cold with few leads and almost no evidence, and it will take 25 years before investigators finally close in on the killer.

  • After the mutilated body of 17-year-old Shauna Card is discovered on the bathroom floor in her Orlando, Fla., home, it will take years for investigators to finally crack the case.

  • Washington authorities are stunned when a mother of three dies from cyanide poisoning, and their murder investigation uncovers a pattern of tampering with boxes and blister packs.

  • A college student is stabbed to death while working the night shift at a convenience store, and her murder goes unsolved for 10 years until an informant steps forward.
Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case

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Maybe it's the jealous ex, the co-worker seeking revenge, or perhaps a predator with an appetite for blood? Whatever the motives, crimes are most often solved by relentless investigators searching for the truth and following clues wherever they may lead. This series explores the emotional stories of those attempting to find closure in homicide investigations, from the victims' families to the dedicated police officers. Hourlong episodes present compelling versions of what may have happened and stylized re-enactments of events from different perspectives as new evidence emerges.

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Perry Norton

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