Killer Destinations

In 2003, a call came into police dispatch in Altrincham, England. It was a teenage boy named Mark who said that his friend John had been stabbed in an alley. John was rushed to the hospital in critical condition while police brought Mark to the station for an interview. And then Mark told investigators an unbelievable story that was like nothing they'd ever heard.

In 1986, Cara Knott called her parents to let them know she was on her way home... but when she was more than an hour late, they knew something was horribly wrong. To make matters worse, four different law enforcement agencies declined to look for her citing department policies that she hadn't been missing long enough. When her family took matters into their own hands, their worst nightmare came true.

Our latest episode takes us back to 1931, where 38-year-old Benjamin Collings, his 29-year-old wife Lillian and their five-year-old daughter Barbara are spending the summer aboard their 30-foot cabin cruiser, Penguin. It's an idyllic time for this small close-knit family; until late one night, two men board their boat. What happens next will cause this family of three to become a family of two.

In 2012, UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth was found murdered in an off-campus apartment. She was well-liked by all who met her, so the community was stunned when the alleged perpetrator was finally revealed.

On an August night in 1961, Valerie Storie and her married paramour Michael Gregston were sitting together in a car on a country road. A man with a gun came up to them, inflicting a life-ending injury to one and left the other with a life-altering injury. Many celebs and the public believed an innocent man was convicted. It would take 60 years to learn the truth.

In 2003, Brian Wells walked into a bank with a note demanding $250K. With the bank manager away in meetings, the money couldn't be accessed. So, he left with only what was in the tellers’ cash drawers. When police pulled him over shortly after he left the bank, he admitted that he was the bank robber, but said he did it because he was forced to. However, there would be many twists and turns before investigators learned the whole story.

In 1998, Judith Johnson and her six-year-old granddaughter Brooke were having a sleepover. A noise in the middle of the night woke Brooke up, and what she saw was her worst nightmare. Her grandma was unconscious on the living room floor... and Brooke thought the perpetrator looked like someone she knew. The investigation would divide the entire family.

In 2017, the affluent enclave of McLean, VA experienced a horrific crime that sent shockwaves across the region. The deaths of two women - a mother and her daughter - looked like the daughter ended her mother's life before taking her own. What could've happened to make this young woman snap?

In the summer of 2013, Omaha, Nebraska residents were horrified by the brutal slayings that took place within a span of 10 days. Detectives were able to quickly link three of the four slayings, but the fourth was an outlier. It was through the help of other family members arrested in connection with these crimes that revealed the insidious history that set the stage for these tragic deaths.

In 1997, Janie Louise Pang was a stay-at-home mom of three living in the affluent Orange County suburb of Villa Park, CA. When her life was ended by a man who knocked on her door, police were at a loss for suspects. It took years for police to arrest someone... and when they did, was it the actual perpetrator or someone the killer set up to be the scapegoat?