Fri, Dec 9, 2022
In 2012, Dr. Joseph Sonnier, a Lubbock, Texas, pathologist, was found murdered in his own home. Prosecutors argued that Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon paid his friend David Shepard to stalk and then kill Sonnier because Dixon was jealous that Sonnier was dating Dixon's former girlfriend Richelle Shetina. Dixon, a plastic surgeon from Amarillo, Texas, was eventually convicted of the murder in 2015.
Fri, Dec 16, 2022
On September 2, 2015, Kendra Hatcher, age 35, a successful pediatric dentist, was pronounced dead. She had been shot in the back of the head in the gated parking garage of her Dallas, Texas condo. Detectives must unravel a twisted and complex plot as they chase a fugitive who ends up on the FBI's most-wanted list. In the end, Kendra's death was part of a murder-for-hire plot involving a love triangle. The perpetrators were Brenda Delgado, Crystal Cortes, and Kristopher Love. They were all convicted of the crime and sentenced to varying amounts of time in prison.
Thu, Mar 23, 2023
November 27, 2001: Bruce Firman, age 72, a renowned St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada real estate agent, was beaten to death in the garage of the house he shared with his estranged common-law wife, Margaret Benesch. Bruce had met a new love interest, Joan, and was going through a contentious divorce from Margaret. Bruce feared both Margaret and his step-daughter Elizabeth Gatenby, and with good reason. In the end, it was discovered that Elizabeth Gatenby hired her teenage son Byron Gatenby and one of his friends, Tommy Nicol, to murder Bruce Firman. Elizabeth Gatenby was convicted of first-degree murder in May 2006 and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. The trials for Byron and Tommy were held separately. Byron Gatenby confessed to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to six years in prison. Tommy confessed to first-degree murder and was also sentenced to six years in prison.
Fri, Dec 23, 2022
The murder of Teresa Sievers, age 46, occurred on June 28, 2015, when she was attacked at her home in Bonita Springs, Florida by two men who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer, striking her a total of seventeen times. Police arrested two men from Missouri for the crime, Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. and Jimmy Ray Rodgers. In December 2015, Teresa's husband, Mark Sievers, was arrested and accused of orchestrating the killing, with the motive being life insurance money, as well as the fact that Teresa was supposedly going to take his daughters away from him and he could not afford to fight for custody. All three men were found guilty of the murder. Wright was sentenced to twenty-five years, Rodgers was sentenced to life in prison, and Mark Sievers was sentenced to death.
Fri, Jan 20, 2023
February 5, 2019, Greenwich, Connecticut: A motorway clean-up crew discovered a suitcase in the woods of Connecticut containing the bound, gagged and crumpled remains of a woman. The Medical Examiner was able to positively identify the body as 24-year-old Valerie Reyes, who had been listed as a missing person from New Rochelle, New York. As the list of potential suspects grows, the task of solving the case for homicide detectives may hinge upon a portrait of the killer sketched by the victim. In the end, Valerie's ex-boyfriend Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, age 25, confessed to her murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Thu, Mar 9, 2023
Anchorage, Alaska, March 22, 2000: When the body of a single mother, native Alaskan Genevieve Tepton aka Ginny Tetpon turns up in a snowbank outside Anchorage, Alaska, the evidence points to the victim's fugitive fiance. The shocking murder of a second native Alaskan sparks the fears of the investigators that maybe a serial killer is on the loose. Ginny's case went cold for 10 years. Many suspects are cleared of wrongdoing before detectives finally nab the killers, Derrick Torian and Louis de Jesus.
Thu, Apr 6, 2023
Terri Brooks (September 13, 1958 - February 4, 1984) was the night manager of a Roy Rogers fast-food restaurant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania when she was murdered in 1984 by her boyfriend Alfred Scott Keefe, who confessed to her murder in 1999. His DNA matched crime scene evidence. On June 6, 2000, Keefe was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.