Investigation Discovery Sunday

In 2011, Detective Christopher Lyons picked up a 25-year-old cold case file, hoping to solve a murder that many saw as a tragic miscarriage of justice

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home

The murder of John Thurberg at his place of work. The motive was unclear, but when police interviewed his employees, they uncovered a web of secrets and lies

A case that began when a woman was found dead in her bath. Initially, it was thought she had died of natural causes, but an autopsy revealed she had been strangled

The case of Susan Smith, who became an FBI informant to protect her children from her jealous husband's criminal friends. However, her move brought hellish consequences

The case of 20-year-old Missy Grubaugh, a devout Christian, who was saving herself for marriage. Missy's innocent charms attracted the wrong type of men - with deadly results

The murder of orthodontist David Lynn Harris by wife Clara, who ran her husband over in a hotel car park in July 2002 over an affair he was having

The case of Bernie Grucza, who plan to steal from his employers drove him to murder a colleague

Detective Rod Demery charts the final hours of good-natured Vietnam veteran Drexelle McBride, whose body was recovered from the driver's seat of his white van

Detective Rod Demery revisits the circumstances of his then-21-year-old mother's murder in May 1969

When the heir-apparent to a Colorado ranch suddenly disappears, his family doesn't seem to care. Police quickly uncover a body and a vicious family feud

The murder of a father devastates his family. But when his widow and her son turn the home into a sex party house, it exposes a very different reality

The murders of an elderly North Dakota couple during an attack in their home. Detectives discovered a crime scene hopelessly compromised

The disappearance of 21-year-old Noel Alkaramla, who vanished just before Thanksgiving 2015. In November 2017, her stepfather Johnny Oquendo was put on trial for her murder

The case of 50-year-old mother Sharon Denson, who was found shot seven times in the street with no killer in sight. However, her dying declaration proved a huge help to police

When a former crime reporter is found murdered inside his home, investigators suspect his spouse, until intercepted jailhouse calls reveal the true killer

A man shoots two officers serving eviction papers and then escapes, sparking a high-speed car chase. Plus, two robbery suspects flee in a U-Haul truck

In 2010, former Playboy model Paula Sladewski's body was found burned beyond recognition in a Miami dumpster. The investigation exposes a haunting lack of justice

A case from Burlington Township, New Jersey, in which a man killed his girlfriend, then revealed she was not his first victim

Police find a father of two dead and interview his family, but one member is missing.

In Louisiana, a sadistic serial killer butchers eight women over a decade.

A sadistic 'Tourniquet Killer' terrorises young girls in Texas. He confesses to multiple murders and grants one final interview before his execution

The murder of Patricia Kimmi, who disappeared from her Kansas home in November 2009 and whose decomposed body was later discovered after detectives acted on a lead

The July 1999 murders of Diana Algar and Jose Molina in Pennsylvania. Three letters scrawled across Algar's living room wall became a central clue in a US-wide manhunt

In 2007 in Bethany, Oklahoma, a young pregnant woman went missing. Police tried to retrace her last steps, and unearth more than the secrets she harboured

In 2011, Detective Christopher Lyons picked up a 25-year-old cold case file, hoping to solve a murder that many saw as a tragic miscarriage of justice

The murder of John Thurberg at his place of work. The motive was unclear, but when police interviewed his employees, they uncovered a web of secrets and lies