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Using the urgency and intimacy of local news footage, the stories of murder investigations that turned small towns and communities upside down are recounted.
2018
In August 2000, 17-year-old Jessica Carpenter is found murdered in her Aiken, S.C., home by her mother; local reporters and family members tell the story of a town frozen in terror as police search for a possible serial killer on the loose.
When 15-year-old high school freshman Danielle Locklear, of Hope Mills, N.C., went missing in March 2014, her family and friends think a killer is in their midst, then a body is found in a creek near South River, weighed down with concrete blocks.
When 44-year-old high school teacher, Theresa Lockhart, of Portage, Mich., went missing in May 2017, her vehicle is discovered with nothing inside and as police begin the investigation as a possible homicide, with her husband as a person of interest.
Forty-year-old Rachael Anderson disappears without a trace after calling a friend about a home improvement project she'll never complete.
After 19-year-old college co-ed, Jessica O'Grady, went missing one night in May 2006, after leaving to see her boyfriend in Omaha, Neb., another woman disappears a week earlier which causes the locals to wonder if a serial killer is on the loose.
When the body of 19-year-old Ali Kemp was found by her father at a swimming pool in Leawood, Kan., in June 2002, her father goes on a quest to find is daughter's killer; news reports and interviews with investigators and family are featured.
2020
In August 1992, millionaire Tennessee landowner Allen Roberts arrives home to discover his wife is missing; he tells police he received a ransom call for Doe's safe return; slowly, the town turns on Allen, until police take note of one odd neighbor.
Debora Gail Moody vanishes into thin air from her home in Ludowici Ga.; a decade passes in her case with no answers; her family persists by posting billboards all around town; 11 years later, a confession reveals the chilling details.
Businesspeople John and Liz Calvert vanish in 2008 from Hilton Head, S.C.; friends, investigators and local reporters are shocked and in disbelief that a couple could disappear without a trace in such a peaceful place.
Alisha Sidie disappears from a small vacation town in Wisconsin in 2008; family, friends, local reporters and police investigators recall the fear and sadness the crime instilled on their tight community.
21-year-old Joel Larson is shot to death in a safe haven community for gay people in 1990s Minneapolis. Two more shootings terrorize the community as they realize a serial killer in disguise lives among them.
