The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas

- Season 1

(2017)

In 1990, a teenager was convicted of murdering his parents. Forced into a confession by homicide detectives, Martin Tankleff spent twenty years trying to prove his innocence.

When 22-year-old Erin Belanger and with her boyfriend Francisco "Flacco" Roman move to Deltona, Florida, they're hoping for a new start. Little do they know the danger that awaits them.

The mean streets of East Detroit, 2007. An entire house is shot up - four people are dead and one is injured. Maria Elena Salinas exposes a unique view of justice and life on the streets.

2004, a daycare provider in Corvallis, OR is alarmed when 2y/o Karly Sheehan, one of her brightest and most energetic children, starts exhibiting strange new behavior while her hair appears to be falling out. Is it too late to save her?

In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan was barreling towards the Florida coast when Michelle Jones decides to invite her Aunt Teri and Uncle Charlie to ride out the storm. What was intended to be a fun visit turns into something much darker.

When Mary Rose's 15-year old daughter, Annette, takes up with 41-year old Felix Vail in 1981, Mary is concerned. But it's not until Annette disappears three years later without a trace, that Mary begins to discover Felix Vail's dark history.

June 12, 2016: nearly 200 people are partying at Pulse Nightclub, a haven for the LGBTQ community. After last call, 29-yr-old Omar Mateen opens fire, killing 49 people, injuring more than 50 in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

It is 1997, the suburbs of Seattle. A dead body is found in a park. When police go to inform the victim's family, they trip on the scene of a massacre. Their investigation leads them down the demonic path of the Seattle Goth scene.

On September 10, 2003 in Joliet, Illinois, 62 year-old Mexican immigrant Felipe Ulloa tells his wife Eloisa that he is going to a local bar to collect a $75 debt. He never returns.

In 2009, police to uncover the most grisly murder scene in New Mexico history. After uncovering human remains on the West Mesa, Albuquerque PD launched an unprecedented investigation that leads to a serial killer on the loose.