“His entire world revolved around her” --When cops break into the Groene home on May 16th 2005 after receiving a call from a concerned neighbor, no one is prepared to find the family murdered, and as they identify everyone, they notice that the younger children, Dylan, 9, and Shasta, 8, are missing. As the authorities race against time to find the missing kids, Shasta is trapped in the woods with her family’s killer, nearly 100 miles away, and starts to plan her own escape.

“Only a monster can do this kind of evil thing” --On the morning of July 12, 2009, in the Rye Brook Hilton Hotel, May Abad receives a frantic call from hotel security, urging her to rush to her parents’ suite. As she races down the hallway, her mother, Narcy Novack’s, screams cut through the silence—her father, Ben Novack Jr., millionaire and heir to Miami’s famous Fontainebleau hotel, has been brutally murdered. Now, May is on a desperate hunt for the truth. But what she doesn’t realize is that the killer is much closer than she ever imagined.-CreditsDirected & edited by Matthew RiceWriting & research by Bianca Yzabelle TanRevisions by Kat GardilcicProduced by Alexandra Salois & Salim SaderVoiceover by William Akana-SourcesDateline NBC, “Family Affair” CNBC, Deadly Rich, “Bound for Murder” 48 Hours, “Crazy Love”Dying to Belong, “Narcy Novack”The Criminal Mind Unveiled, “My Dirty Little Secret”

“There’s a monster out there”

It’s 1981 in the sleepy town of River Oaks, Texas, and someone is hunting cheerleaders. A 16-year-old teenager, Susan Brown, is brutally attacked in her own home. What she, the cops, and the rest of the town don’t know is that she’s just the first victim in a rampage that will change this Texas suburb forever.One by one, members of the Castleberry High School cheer squad are targeted, but things escalate when Rona Stratton’s sister is found dead in her bedroom. Rona decides to team up with her friend Lisa Ticknor, who also survived an attack, along with the other cheerleaders in the squad, to start a decades-long fight to take down the Cheerleader Slayer, and make sure he would never hurt anyone else.

Sources:

Discovery + - Warner Bros

CBS News

The portal to Texas History

Channel 5 Action News

KXAS-TV

The Digital Library

Channel 5 Action News

British Pathé

“There’s no way that we just found this murder plan"

25-year-old Patrick De La Cerda is ready to start a new chapter with his fiancée, Jessica Devnani, until right after Valentine’s Day, in 2018, when cops make a grim discovery at the couple’s barn in Deltona, Florida: Patrick has been murdered in what seems to be a targeted assassination, but as the case goes on, unusual clues pop up. Ominous voicemails, private investigators, secret cameras, Jessica & the detectives discover nothing is as it seems, and it’s up to them to trap the killer who thought he was too smart to ever be caught, and get justice for Patrick.

Credits:

Directed, written, & edited by Justin Chalifoux

Research by Tiffany Loxton

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Sources:

48 Hours: The Ring (CBS News Productions)

Love You To Death: Playbook for Murder (Streetcar Entertainment)

A Plan to Kill: Til Death Do Us Part (IPC)

Green Eyed Killers: Patrick De La Cerda (Peninsula Television)

Jessica Devnani (YouTube)

“Shh, don’t scream.”--On the night of July 23rd 2013, Tiffany calmly calls the police asking for help after she injured her own neck in an attempt to take her life, while her ex-husband Kris simply watches her. When the detectives arrive on the scene, it’s clear to them that she didn’t do this herself. Her ex Kris says the opposite, and calls her a liar. As they dig more into the case, time is running out as Kris carries out his own plan to “finish the job”.

"What happened in that box?" January 11th 1973, on his way to buy milk for his siblings, 13 year old Paul Martin Andrews doesn’t notice a blue van is following him. Sitting in it is Richard Ausley, a dangerous outlaw on the run, and as Richard usually does, he simply asks Paul for help and offers him a ride. His story would end up becoming infamously known as “The Boy in the Box”, and 30 years later, Paul speaks up about it for the first time, as his captor begs for freedom.

“Are the hurt people dead?” In 1979, 4 year old Jennifer Carson comes face to face with one of the most bizarre and deranged serial killers to have ever lived: none other than her new psychic step-mother, Susan Carson. Susan, along with Jenn’s father Michael Bear Carson, will embark on a years-long religious mission to hunt down and kill anyone they deem a witch, and Jenn is their first target. Little do the infamous San Francisco Witch Killers know that Jenn will escape the clutches of their evil cult and lead the way to justice for her and the rest of their victims.

Directed, written & edited by Alexandre Gendron

Research & script revision by Tiffany Loxton

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Voiceover by William Akana

Sources

I Lived with a Killer: The San Francisco Witch Killers (Breakthrough Entertainment)

Snapped: Killer Couples: Susan & Michael Carson (Jupiter Entertainment)

The Killer In My Family: James Michael 'Bear' Carson (Woodcut Media)

Deadly Women: Hunting Humans (Beyond International)

This Is Life With Lisa Ling: Children of Killers (Part2 Pictures)

Wicked Attraction: The Two Bears (M2 Pictures)

The Conversation: My Dad Was a Serial Killer (BBC)

Facing Evil: Dr. Jenn Carson (iHeartPodcasts/Tenderfoot TV)

“I don’t want to tell her daddy’s gone”

In the early hours of March 10th, 2017, police officers enter the home of Valerie McDaniel and Leon Jacob with seemingly unexpected news – cops tell the new couple that Valerie’s ex-husband has just been killed in a robbery gone wrong, but there’s something else they’re hiding. What Leon and Valerie don’t know is that they’ve walked right into a trap—one designed to catch them in their own deadly scheme. Behind it all was the last person they expected: Leon’s ex, Meghan Verikas.

Directed, written and edited by Matthew Rice

Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Voiceover by William Akana

Sources

KPRC

ABC 13 Houston

ABC, 20/20

Law&Crime

Dateline NBC, Twisted in Texas

Oxygen, Murder for Hire, Doctor’s Orders

A&E, American Justice, “The Bad Doctor”

“She knew who did it all along”On July 31st 1970, in the small town of Price Utah, 4 year old Heidi wakes up to eerie silence, and after peeking through the keyhole of her bedroom door, she sees a terrifying scene that will stick with her forever: the tragic murder of her mother. However, no one is convicted, and before the case file is officially marked as unsolved, Heidi’s grandmother takes one last photo of her, standing in front of the outline: nobody could imagine that this photo would actually hide the key to solve the murder, which will only be done 46 years later.

“You’re gonna pay for this”

On May 1st, 2001, 11 YO Leah Henry is dropped off by her school bus less than a mile from the safety of her house, but as she starts her walk home, a car suddenly drives up to her and parks, blocking the road. Unbeknownst to her, Leah is about to be kidnapped by one of Texas’ most notorious serial predators, but she will also be known as the girl who outsmarted him using her wits, and even her camera, and ultimately, took him down for good.

Sources:

A&E

2013 - Investigation Discovery