The Prosecutors: In Pursuit of Justice

- Season 2

(2001)

When 27-year-old David Wahl disappears without a trace from a state park in Oregon, he leaves behind a distraught family and a host of unanswered questions. Months later and 100 miles north, Wahl's body washes ashore. The death is ruled an accident, until a shocking admission by his girlfriend leads to criminal charges.

The disappearance of seven-year-old Amanda Brown from her Florida home sparks a massive search effort by dozens of law enforcement agencies and hundreds of concerned citizens. While the search for the missing girl continues, investigators look into the history of the last man to see her alive, and make a chilling discovery.

The community of Dover, Delaware is shocked when human body parts turn up throughout the city. Authorities determine that the remains are all from the same victim, but it will take the best forensic scientists in the country to make a positive identification. State Prosecutor Eugene Hall spearheads a massive effort to find the killer.

In 1992, gang activity in Chicago is on the rise. With local law enforcement unable to curb the growing drug trade and its resulting violence, a multi-agency task force headed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Safer focuses on one of the city's most vicious street gangs, the Gangster Disciples. The investigation reveals that one man rules the 35,000-member gang from behind bars.

For many teenagers, their first jobs are at fast-food restaurants. Parents feel that these are safe environments for their children. That image is shattered when seven employees of three different fast-food restaurants in the Nashville, Tennessee area are murdered over a two-month period in 1997. Months of investigation reveal a Texas parolee as the prime suspect.

A community is horrified when seven trick-or-treaters in Pasadena, California are sprayed with gunfire on Halloween night in 1993, leaving three young boys dead. Investigators rely on forensic clues, eyewitness accounts, and street informants to find the killers, three gang members bent on avenging a friend's death.

An evening of pick-up basketball in Houston turns tragic when prosecutor Gil Epstein is murdered in a community center parking lot. Investigators depend on anonymous tips and hazy eyewitness accounts to track down a killer. District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal leads a prosecution team whose chances for a conviction are put in jeopardy by a single holdout juror.

When the death rate at a rural Indiana hospital skyrockets, an investigation implicates a nurse, Orville Lynn Majors. State Police are left with a daunting task. In order to conclude that Majors is a serial killer, police first have to first figure out if the deaths were murders and then determine how he killed the patients.

When a mother and her infant daughter disappear from rural Huntsville, Texas, suspicion quickly falls on the woman's husband. Lacking evidence, authorities cannot make an arrest. With the case growing cold, a teenager hundreds of miles away confesses to the murder of Margaret and Kori Rae Owings.

A college student's body is found in a storm drain in Marietta, Ohio.

When firefighters in suburban Indianapolis are called to a house fire, what they find inside shocks the entire community, a respected minister and his wife have been murdered with an ax. An exhaustive investigation leads authorities to a teenage church member and his accomplice.

A string of rapes spanning two decades goes unsolved in Jacksonville, Florida, until Detective Diana Clarke finds a link among the crimes and discovers that a serial rapist is terrorizing the community. After a suspect is finally arrested, Detective Clarke teams up with Prosecutor Libby Senterfitt to track down the rapist's victims and convince them to testify.

A robbery and double homicide at a grocery store in Raleigh, North Carolina shocks the community. With little evidence left behind, and no eyewitnesses, the investigation stalls. Then a tip to authorities implicates a store employee in another robbery and leads Prosecutor Evelyn Hill to believe that that employee, and his brother, committed the murders.

A shoot-out in a church in Northern Virginia leads authorities to the home of an ex-FBI agent out for revenge. When an unwitting accomplice comes forward, investigators begin to understand the scope and complexity of the man's scheme to get back at his estranged wife.

The brutal double rape and murder of two young women terrifies the small, desert community of Twentynine Palms, California. Investigators struggle to link a suspect with the physical evidence they find at the crime scene. Their investigation leads them to the largest Marine base in the world.

On the morning of January 23, 1994, a slumber party in Alvin, Texas becomes the scene of a terrible tragedy when 2 ½-year-old Renee Goode is discovered dead. The mother of the child accuses her estranged husband, but when the medical examiner rules the death undetermined, the investigation draws to a close.

A loving mother disappears without explanation in Arlington, Texas. Investigators suspect foul play but search fruitlessly for any sign of her whereabouts. When investigators discover a link between the woman's disappearance and another murder nearly two decades earlier, they contact Prosecutor Sandy Gately.

On September 18, 1985, the life of a small-town bank president is shattered when he receives a call from an unknown man who has kidnapped his wife. The kidnapper demands a ransom for her safe return. When local police respond to the home, they find the woman dead, shot seven times. The FBI is called in and an intense investigation ensues.