This episode is rated a 2 (on my Serious Crime Scale). This story is partially what sparked the conspiracy theories (AKA rumors) that the coronavirus was developed in a lab in China. While the man in this story was found guilty of blatantly lying to the IRS about millions of dollars and his ties to China, he was NOT found guilty in any way of developing the coronavirus or even charged with anything of the sorts. It's the story of 62-year-old Harvard University professor Dr. Charles Lieber, who covered up his involvement with the Wuhan University of Technology and his participation in a program called China’s Thousand Talents Plan.

This episode is rated a 4 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It's the story of Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University student who seemed to disappear without a trace. But THIS story, this episode, has several possibilities of what might have happened to her. You see, in the summer of 2011, Lauren went out one night with some friends, but the last time she was seen seems to have left more questions than answers, especially among the group of friends she was last seen with.

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of 19-year-old Shannon Melendi, a young woman attending Emory University, a private research institution in Atlanta, Georgia. On one morning in March of 1994, Shannon was working her part-time job as a score keeper at a community softball complex; but when she left the softball fields that day for lunch, she was never seen or heard from again. The person responsible for her disappearance and, ultimately, her murder, would not be brought to justice until over 10 years later, in 2005, and he wouldn’t ADMIT to his crime until a year after that, in 2006.

This episode is rated a 4 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It's the story of missing Ohio State University medical student Brian Shaffer. In 2006, Brian walked in to a bar with some friends. When closing time came and went, Brian's friends can be seen leaving the bar, but Brian is nowhere in sight. He is never seen leaving the bar he walked into less than an hour earlier. For over 15 years, police still have no answers and Brian is considered an endangered missing person.

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of two roommates attending the very prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the spring of 1995, after Trang Phuong Ho told her friend and roommate Sinedu Tadesse that she would no longer be rooming with her the next school year, Sinedu took the ultimate revenge, tragically ending the lives of both of these young women in a brutal murder/suicide event.

This episode is rated a 4.5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). How would you feel, or how would you react, if you were sitting in a college psychology class, and it was a typical day, just like any other day in a college classroom (at least you thought so when you first walked in); but, when you get there, the professor tells you and the rest of your peers, his deepest, darkest secret? Right then and there, in the middle of class, your professor admits to being a cold-blooded killer. Yes, this actually happened and it is a very real story… even though it seems almost preposterous… But don’t jump to conclusions just yet, at least, not before you hear the full extent of the story and the circumstances surrounding it.

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of two separate murders that occurred on the campus of Gallaudet University, a prestigious school in Washington, D.C., and the nation’s only liberal arts university for the deaf and hard of hearing. The acclaimed university was deemed a safe, happy place, with a 10-foot rod iron fence enclosing the entire 99-acre campus in the heart of D.C. But for students attending the university in the year 2000, they had no idea Gallaudet would become the hunting grounds for a serial killer in the making.

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of not one, or two, but THREE different murders on the grounds of Stanford University. In the course of two years, THREE young women were violently killed at the college in Stanford, California, and all three remained cold cases for nearly 50 years! That is... until DNA technology brought out the smoking guns investigators needed to finally link the killers to their heinous crimes.

This episode is rated a 3 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It's the story of a former college professor, who has ties to several colleges across the country, and allegedly went on an "arson-setting" spree in the summer of 2021. He allegedly set a string of wildfires in the vicinity of California's Dixie Fire, the state's second largest wildfire in history, which burned for over three months from July to October 2021.

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day. Earlier this year, on Aug. 25, Jelani was reported missing and shortly after, on Sept. 4, Jelani’s body was found floating face down in the Illinois River in Peru, Illinois. After an autopsy supposedly revealed no evidence of assault or altercation, the county coroner concluded the cause of his death was, simply, drowning. BUT, Jelani’s family, friends, and thousands of supporters think there is much more to the story than an accidental drowning. Find out all the details of this story on Chronicle 19, #WhatHappenedtoJelaniDay.