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Elizabeth Vargas takes a fresh look at the most notorious cold case murder in American history.

On the morning of December 26, 1996, parents John and Patsy Ramsey awoke to find a ransom note for their missing 6-year-old daughter Jon Benet before her brutally beaten and lifeless body was found in the basement of their home.

After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is his cheating wife.

Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing persons case goes cold.

In 1989, Richard Mallory is found shot dead in the brush off the side of a Florida highway, just the first of seven murdered men found in a similar setting. Their predator is Aileen Wuornos, a woman fleeing a troubled past and yearning for a connection.

Before he hunted down his first victim in the wilds of Alaska, Hansen was working at his father's bakery in small town Iowa, slowly developing an animosity for women.

Growing up with a violent father, Danny dreamed of having a loving family as an adult, but his darker fantasies drove him to destroy a family instead. After that, he couldn't stop.

One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.

The articulate and boastful killer, known for his intelligence and charm, is remembered for terrifying the coastal town of Santa Cruz where he picked up and dismembered hitchhiking college students in the early 1970s.

In rural Epping, New Hampshire, everyone knew Sheila LaBarre as an eccentric widow who loved her rabbits. No one expected what police uncovered when looking for a missing man.

Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina and the police seem unable to stop it. What the police don't realize is that the cases all have a commonality: a connection with Henry Louis Wallace.

African American women in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland were vanishing. Their families were desperate for help, but no one seemed to know what was happening to them, no one except Anthony Sowell.

Serial killer Arthur Shawcross tells a lot of stories about his life before he began to kill. Abuse, bestiality, cannibalism...but is any of it true?

Growing up gay was tough on Ronald Dominique. But that's not why Ronald began to kill African American men. Tragically, this was the beginning of years of senseless murder.

In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Michigan. Their attacker was 23-year-old Don Miller. Lisa and Randy recount the attacks.

In November of 1988, Enietra Margette is walking to a party in South Los Angeles, when a man in a souped-up orange pinto offers her a ride. Soon after getting into the car, the driver, Lonnie Franklin, shoots the young passenger point blank in the chest.

Survivors describe how they were attacked by serial killer Rodney Alcala, who was convicted of five Southern California murders in the 1970's.

In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted and held captive for 3 horrific days but managed to escape. Once her kidnapper is taken to jail, an intense FBI investigation revealed that he has an entire torture chamber unlike anything investigators have ever seen.

Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti elicited murder confessions from a vicious but relatively unknown serial killer--Richard Cottingham, nicknamed the Torso Killer.

Bergen County (NJ) Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti continues his mission to tie Cottingham to additional murders and to get him to confess to more cold-case homicides.