True Crime in Color

19-year-old Pravin Varughese had dreams of becoming a police officer. But after one fateful college party, Pravin's dreams were never realized. The Southern Illinois University student was found dead in the woods days after that party.

The biggest question surrounding Pravin's case: how did he die? Was it hypothermia? Or blunt force trauma?

Jelani Day was a graduate student at Illinois State University. The 25-year-old had dreams of becoming a doctor. He was considered a missing person for about a month. His body found in the Illinois River September 4, 2021. It wasn't identified until almost 20 days later. Jelani's family wants to know what happened to him.

Jaylan Butler is a swimmer at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. On the way back from a swim meet, Jaylan says he was detained, put in handcuffs, thrown in the back of a police car and his life was threatened. But police got it wrong. They weren't looking for Jaylan, but someone else. 

Selena Reyes-Hernandez was murdered in Chicago in 2020. Allegedly by a man who was upset because she was transgender.