On the 9th of January 2008, Sophie Elliott was excited and ready for a new stage in her life. She had recently ended an on and off again relationship with her abusive ex-boyfriend Clayton Weatherston, and was looking forward to a free and happy future.

She was packing up her life in her bedroom as she had just gotten her dream job 500 miles away and was due to leave shortly.

But her ex-boyfriend Clayton wouldn't let this happen. He turned up unannounced at her house and stabbed her 216 times in her bedroom, killing her violently and mutilating her body.

When police arrived at the scene and asked him why he had killed her, Clayton calmly responded because of `The emotional pain she has caused me over the past year'.

Clayton did not resist arrest, but at the trial, he pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted to manslaughter, claiming Sophie had provoked him into stabbing her.

Was this true? Had Sophie attacked Clayton first? Or was this narcissistic monster lying through his teeth and painting his ex-girlfriend in a bad light?

When 36-year-old Army Veteran Maribel Ramos didn't show up to her softball game on the 3rd of May, 2013, her family immediately began to worry.Her roommate KC Joy, had also reported her missing at around 10:40am, saying that she had not come home that previous night.Her family made several attempts to contact her but when this failed, they immediately sprung into action and started searching for her.They scoured the city for any trace of her, but sadly, in a horrifying twist of events, about 2 weeks after her disappearance, Maribel’s lifeless body was discovered.Who had murdered Maribel Ramos?The search for Maribel’s murderer quickly lead them to someone who had once been close to her, someone she called a friend.This is the story of Maribel Ramos’ tragic murder and what happened when attraction turned to jealousy and obsession.

When Chad Hebert heard that his 2 children, Camille and Braxton Hebert, had not arrived at school that day, and his ex-wife had also not gone to work, he immediately panicked and contacted the police.When police arrived at Amy’s house, they found the doors deadlocked and no response was coming from inside, so they broke in.When they reached the master bedroom, they found Amy Hebert in bed with her 2 children and the family dog.What had caused Amy Hebert to do this to her children and the family dog?Was she suffering from a psychotic disorder? Or was she purely acting in a state of revenge and hatred towards her ex-husband?This is the heartbreaking story of how and why Amy Hebert took the lives of her young children.

On the 23rd January 2014, 5-year-old Garnett Spears sadly passed away in hospital due to swelling in his brain.He had been fatally poisoned by the one person who was meant to love him and protect him, the person in whose care he ought to feel the safest, and the person he should call family - his own mother, Lacey Spears.Why did Lacey Spears murder her own son in such a cruel and evil way? How could she do something so unspeakable to her own child?As the investigation unfolded, the true horror of what happened to Garnett and his mother’s motives behind his murder was revealed.This is the tragic tale of young Garnett Spears, whose life was untimely snatched from him by his own mother, all in a desperate attempt to gain sympathy and attention in the era of social media.

On June 15th 1990, Rosie Alfaro went to a friend's house in Anaheim, California as she desperately needed some money and planned to break in and steal some valuables.When she got to the house, she knocked on the front door, and her friends 9-year-old little sister Autumn answered. Little Autumn Wallace recognised her older sister's friend Rosie and let her inside as Rosie told her she needed to use the bathroom.As Autumn returned to what she had been doing – colouring paper dolls with crayones – Rosie Alforo took a knife from the kitchen and then went to the bathroom. Rosie knew she couldn’t leave any witnesses to the theft, so she called little Autumn Wallace over to help her with something in the bathroom.Trusting and helpful, Autumn got up from her colouring and headed over to help her sister’s friend.Rosie’s actions in the bathroom that day, led her to become the first woman in Orange County to get the death penalty.

On February 11, 2011, police found 10-year-old Nubia Barahona, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in the back of her adoptive step-father Jorge Barahona’s pickup truck along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County.Her twin brother Victor, was also found inside the vehicle, severely injured but alive; he was suffering seizures due to being covered in chemical burns and inhalation of toxic gas.Their adoptive father, Jorge Barahona, was found passed out nearby.How had Nubia died? And who had hurt her twin brother Victor? Had they been hurt by the two people who had vowed to love and care for them?This is the tragic and heartbreaking case of Nubia Barahona and how she was failed by so many people.

On the 18th of April 1987, Easter Weekend, 26-year-old Shani Warren’s body was found face down in Taplow Lake in England. Her wrists were tied with a car jump lead, and her ankles were tied by a tow rope. Her car was found abandoned nearby, with her personal items everywhere.Outrageously, a theory was suggested by a forensic pathologist that Shani had done this to herself, based on the looseness of the ties on her hands and that no other footprints were found alongside her stiletto heelprints at the scene.With the first 48 hours critical in her murder investigation now lost, a murder investigation was finally launched 4 days later after her body was found, when a postmortem examination found she had died by drowning, with the press quickly dubbing Shani as the Lady of The Lake.Despite the case gaining a lot of publicity, due to the lack of evidence and not enough advancement in DNA testing, police were unable to charge anyone with her murder. And so, 34 years passed and the case went cold until it was finally solved in 2021…

On the morning of 27th January 2015, police arrived at the doors of 12 Goske Street after receiving a strange call stating that intruders had broken into a house in one of the most exclusive estates in Stellenbosch, South Africa and attacked and killed the whole family with an axe.The call had come in just after 7am, from one of the survivors of the attack, 20-year-old Henri Van Breda, who strangely sounded very unphased…

"Grandad shot me mummy" were some of six-year-old Stanley Metcalf's last words.No one could foresee the tragedy that would occur in the village of Sproatley in Hull, England, on the 26th of July, 2018, when Stanley was shot in the abdomen by with own great-grandfather.As Stanley’s family mourned the loss of his innocent young life, questions were raised about how such a terrible event could have happened during a close-knit family gathering.Why would a 78-year-old fire towards his own great-grandson?Had he intentionally shot little Stanley Metcalf, or was it a horrible accident?