On the Case with Paula Zahn

- Season 6

(2012)

Young lovers are found shot dead on a lovers' lane near Scottsdale, AZ, in 1962. Did a vengeful wife engineer her husband's conviction by substituting his fingerprints in the files? Did another man actually confess?

The only witness to a mother's murder is her 2-year old daughter. The accused confesses but alibi witnesses provide doubt. Is it enough? Prosecutors and the defense team feel they should check out another possible suspect first.

A teenager disappears from her home in Lubbock, TX. Another young woman's body is found in their landfill in a suitcase. Wal-Mart video leads to the arrest of an unlikely killer. Could he also be responsible for both murders?

When a van is found in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a dead woman's body in it, police conclude it was not an accident. Suspicion falls on her neighbors but perhaps the blame belongs closer to home.

Hillsborough County Florida is in the midst of a horrifying crime spree. Young women are turning up dead every week. Can one teen age girl's bravery bring an end to a vicious killer's reign of terror?

Paula Zahn hosts this investigation of Stacy Fairchild, a 17-year-old who vanished unexpectedly from her Ohio home, last seen in a mall parking lot. The case baffles police for a long time, until they gain a lead on her possible killer. Zahn interviews a young woman who nearly became a victim of the same perpetrator.

A beloved father of two is executed after a friendly poker game. Were the stakes too high? Or would police find the truth much closer to home?

A young couple, out on the town in Washington D.C., is gunned down in a savage attack. Investigators are at a loss. Would it take another murder to solve the mystery?

A devoted mother vanishes on her way home from work. Her disappearance sends police into the darkest corners of the state and our justice system.

After finding his beautiful 19 year old daughter dead, a father launches a relentless pursuit of her killer.

After 3 young girls are kidnapped and murdered, the killer kidnaps again. A young girl's heroic actions solve the case.

A successful business man is found brutally murdered in his palatial Southern Florida home. A mysterious backpack found at the crime scene is the key to the case.