On a steamy August morning in 1935, a Cleveland housewife walked into a neighborhood deli and shot the owner dead. She was convinced the woman was a witch who had placed a hex on her family. In this episode, 19 News reporter Jen Picciano unravels one of the city's most bizarre and chilling crimes — a murder rooted not in jealousy or greed, but in fear, superstition, and years of desperate suffering.

In 2017, Amanda Dean disappeared.  Her family panicked, but felt relief when the sheriff told them she was safe in a women's shelter.  But Amanda wasn't safe, she was dead.  19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky has the disturbing story of how a woman who was unforgettable, vanished for years, and the long fight to bring her killer to justice. 

Aliza Sherman trusted Gregory Moore with her divorce. Prosecutors say he used that trust to plan her murder. In this episode, 19 News anchor Tiffani Tucker traces the 12-year cold case from the day the beloved nurse was stabbed to death outside Moore's downtown Cleveland office to the moment he was arrested 4,422 days later — and what comes next as his trial approaches.

A man walking his dog finds a suitcase in a Cleveland park — inside, the remains of a child. Detectives soon uncover a second suitcase with another child's body and later learn the victims are half‑sisters, 8-year-old Mila Chatman and 10-year-old Amor Wilson. Who killed these little girls and buried them shallow graves? In this episode, 19 News Senior Investigative Reporter Sara Goldenberg retraces the first critical days of the investigation. Content warning: This episode includes graphic and disturbing details involving children. 

A mother throws her four-year-old son into the lake and lets him drown.  She claimed it was a test of her faith in God.  Will a judge decide it was cold-blooded murder?  

In this final episode, Bionca Ellis learns her punishment for killing three-year-old Julian Wood.  Hear the powerful messages from Julian's mother and father as the judge hands down Justice for Julian.  

Two-year-old Nevaeh Holton vanished more than a decade ago but the little girl wasn’t reported missing for years. Now, the father who never knew she existed is speaking out for the first time, desperate for answers about his daughter. Investigator Sara Goldenberg takes you inside this puzzling case with Cleveland Police and the FBI as they search for the missing toddler who would be 15 years old today.

After six days of testimony and 7 hours of deliberations, the jury in the Bionca Ellis trial has reached a verdict. Did Bionca Ellis knowingly kill 3-year-old Julian Wood?  

A three-year-old boy stabbed to death in a brutal, random attack at a grocery store parking lot.  In this episode we hear from Julian's mother who had to witness the murder of her son.  We'll also hear from medical experts who argue whether Bionca Ellis was insane when she committed the horrific crime. 

Three-year-old Julian Wood was at an Ohio grocery store with his mother when, suddenly, a woman attacked, stabbing him to death in a brutal, random act of violence. Police would arrest Bionca Ellis only about a hundred yards from the crime scene. In this special Dark Side of the Land series, you can listen to key testimony in the trial and get expert legal analysis as a heartbroken family and a devastated community hope for "Justice for Julian."