Crime Stories - Season 6 (2008)

A week-long search for a missing 10-yr-old Indiana girl ends sadly with her body being discovered in a nearby stream. The ensuing investigation puts police through the wringer as they are misled by false confessions and stories of secret meth labs. DNA evidence eventually pins the crime on Anthony Stockelman and the community is finally able to achieve justice.

Six days into 2004, an unidentified man is found stabbed to death just outside of the booming oil city of Calgary, Alberta. A witness comes forward when he sees an article about the murder just when the police appear to have no leads. The victim is identified as Evan Chu,* a local DJ and security guard who has a penchant for helping wayward youth. School rumors and wiretaps lead police to three guilty teenagers.

US Coastguardsman Ricky Dale Hemphill and companion Charla Toma set out for a picnic along a river near Brookings, Oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later Ricky is found murdered and Charla is missing. A tip from a local hunter leads police to Edward Delen Warren, a former convict in the area trying to set up a religious retreat. What police uncover is a bizarre plot that will soon spiral out of control.

In November 1986, a snowstorm rips through Connecticut, leaving wife and mother Helle Crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot Richard Crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that Helle had run off with another man. Groundbreaking forensic work and an eyewitness to a gruesome scene involving an industrial-sized woodchipper, result in a conviction that shocks a community.

Three separate women, unrelated to one another, went missing from the Kansas City area in the 1980s and 90s. They all disappeared shortly after meeting a man online and coming to Missouri to meet him. Police suspected one man was behind the disappearances, and their surveillance of conman John Edward Robinson led them to gruesome evidence of the women's fate.

American Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family vanished in August 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency. When the IRS started looking for some of the organization's missing money, they found a former employee with the motive to commit murder instead. Fellow Atheist David Waters was convicted and the complex case was finally put to rest.

On Valentine's Day weekend 1999, three Yosemite National Park tourists disappeared and were found tragically murdered a month later. At the time, handyman Cary Stayner was questioned but released due to lack of evidence. Later that summer, when another woman turned up dead, Stayner would not be so lucky. Authorities were able to pin Stayner with all four murders.