we interviewed her roommates, boyfriend. everyone is a suspect. and then a man said i kidnapped her, we have her, we ran the criminal history. that s when all the bells went off. he pulls in, asking me to get in the car. i feel the cold blade against my neck. he carries cme to the basement of his home. it was jaw dropping, just chilling. they started digging and they found women s clothing. it was escalating. there were so many victims? yes, there still are. until this guy is in longer in existence. i ll carry this fight. ecome a supreme court justice. ge, hello and welcome to dateline. shannon melindi dreamed big. at 15 she wanted to become a supreme court justice. in college she scored a foundation. detectives had a suspect in their sight, but it would take years. a horrific tail to unravel the mystery of shannon s disappearance. here is dana murphy with shannon s story. reporter: the videos, the document reof her life. reporter: the professional dad
were ready for the cameras. it was the first televiseda courtroom drama that captivated the united states. it was a huge deal. spoke erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. i shut my mom. it wasn t real. it just wasn t real. they are sociopaths. and big ones. chilling details. a letter ending in secrets, too dark to imagine. this is so out of the norm. did they kill in cold blood? or in crippling fear? it was gut wrenching. they spoke the truth about what happened. here from the brothers themselves. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was going to let this secret get out. silence destroyed our s whole family. . symbol of their success. here ait was, the shining symbol of their success. here finally an address for the of their long struggle, their amazing rise, beverly hills, california. careful what you wish for. all these years later, it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills, th
fig out who our doe is. what if this is your family. you want to give them closure to us homicide detectives, it s way above our heads. i said, i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it. surreal. it felt like somebody had just punched me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is. it s written in stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline. in many cold cases, the victim s family is desperate to find their loved one s killer. but who did he murder? that team haunted a small town until a team of tenacious strangers put a name with a face. here s keith morrison with the woman with no name. here is where they put her. her permanent home. nobody really knew anything about her. this little cemetery in east texas. one simple marker on her grave. and the name that was
blood spatter inside the car. it was a frenzied attack. the theories were awful. drug drug rings, prostitution rings. the town was going crazy. are going to come across the suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call and there s three brothers and we think one is a killer. we ve got a live one here. what do you think? we are ecstatic. he was sitting at a booth by the window. it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you are staring at the killer. hello, welcome to dateline. teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brains, and compassion. her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittle down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here is dennis murphy with and to then there were three. it was an act of unspeakable violence. it w
at them like what? i could not believe it. was he watching me? that fire was set to throw us off. he was very calculating. years before, his wife killed herself. yes, he claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to their first child. she was extremely excited for that first baby. it made me wonder okay, is he a murderer? so, now you are trying to prove a very old mother with pretty much no evidence. is a kind of gloating that he got away with it? he is thinking well, catch me if you can. we re going to do her and her family justice. we re going to solve this murder. hello, and welcome to dateline. meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire sat decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on the trail toward the truth. here is josh m