From the outside looking in the Turpin family seemed normal enough, but a phone call in January 2018 changed everything. One of their thirteen children escaped from captivity and exposed the dark secrets of what had been happening inside the Turpin family household for decades. Systematic torture and abuse within the walls of the Turpin home are just the tip of the iceberg as those closest to the family make sense of this tragedy. Hear firsthand accounts from those who knew them best, and learn how blindsided even they were to the horrors taking place. Were the Turpins mentally ill, or sadistic psychopaths? Why didn’t the children seek help sooner? And perhaps most importantly, can you ever really know what’s going on behind closed doors?

Chris and Shanann Watts were by all accounts the perfect couple, with two perfect children Celeste and Bella. In 2018 this family was shattered by the disappearance and murder of Shanann and the kids – at the hands of Chris himself. How is it possible for something this horrific to happen in the sleepy mountain town of Frederick Colorado? Did Chris simply snap the morning of the murders, or was it something much more calculated and sinister? Friends of the Watts family come together to unravel the secrets behind this tragedy.

Steven Clayton appeared to have it all. Happily married and living in luxury on the shore of South Carolina’s Lake Wylie, the 64-year-old was enjoying his retirement after a successful career. But on June 21st, 2018, his wife Lana found him dead at the bottom of their stairs after a sudden illness, and immediately called for help. Attending responders initially determined it to be a death from natural causes, but family members grew suspicious that this was not the whole story. Four weeks later a homicide investigation began. Now, world renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter analyses the autopsy report and documents from the investigation to get to the truth of how Steven Clayton died.

In the early hours of January 13th, 2018 beloved wife and mother Kathleen ‘Kat’ Dawn West was found dead across the street from her Calera, Alabama home. The crime scene was shocking. 42-year-old Kat was found partially nude with a blunt force trauma to her head lying next to her was a half full bottle of absinthe and her cell phone. Kat described herself as a full-time wife and Mommy who doted on her daughter Lola, aged 12 years old at the time. But what many people didn’t know is that Kat had a second online life quite at odds with her housewife persona. Kat was an avid social media user and in March 2016 she started using her online accounts to make money, initially posting links to items for sale but it was the sexy pictures of her modelling lingerie that helped her amass 52,000 Instagram followers under the provocative username ‘Kitty Kat West’. This led to Kat starting her own online business on the Onlyfans website and posting more explicit material. Kat’s double life was not a secret from her husband Jeff. Kat had been married to Jeff West for 14 years, on the surface they had a loving, open relationship but digging deeper there were issues in their marriage. Kat’s husband Jeff has been charged and convicted with her murder but the outcome remains controversial. Jeff has always claimed his wife died from a drunken accidental fall. Could Jeff have killed his wife? Did an online stalker murder Kat in cold blood? Was it a drunken accident? With the help of police investigation reports, first-hand accounts and the coroner’s autopsy report Dr. Michael Hunter unravels the mysterious case to uncover how and why Kat West died.

Two attractive young women attacked in their place of work, with one left dead and the other found bound and unconscious. Jayna Murray’s brutal murder, seemingly at the hands of blood thirsty masked intruders, sent the wealthy community of Bethesda, MD, into lockdown. This savage killing in a Lululemon sports clothes store would stun even the most case-hardened law enforcement professionals and forensic specialists. With its apparent sexual motive, and the sheer number of horrific injuries Jayna sustained as she tried to defend herself, this is a crime that stands out in its savagery. But as the details of this terrible murder are revealed, it will become clear that everything is not as it first seems, and forensic and crime scene evidence will turn this urgent investigation on its head. Utilizing the autopsy report, forensic evidence and first-hand accounts, Dr. Michael Hunter will uncover the facts behind this appalling murder, and by studying all the evidence of this mysterious case, he’ll shed light on the appalling truth of it, and explain how and why Jayna Murray died.

On the morning of December 23rd, 2015, just two days before Christmas, cherished wife and mother of two boys Connie Dabate was found brutally murdered, shot to death in her own basement in Ellington Connecticut. Connie’s husband Rick was also found tortured covered in blood. He reported the shocking story of a home invasion gone wrong, a masked intruder who had attempted to rob the family, shooting Connie twice in the process. The Dabates seemed like an idyllic family. Connie and Rick had been together for 12 years, they had two boys and on the surface were the picture of happiness. Connie was a pillar of the small close-knit community of Ellington and as a couple they were well liked and had lots of friends. But what people didn’t know about doting father and loving husband Rick was he had a double life, a second phone and a secret credit card that Connie knew nothing about and the case unfolds darker secrets emerge. A murder that shocked a community and ripped families apart. But, was this simply a tale of a home robbery gone tragically wrong? Who was in the Dabate house that day? What kind of person would murder a mother in cold blood just two days before Christmas? With the help of police investigation reports, the coroner’s autopsy and the technological data pulled from the Dabates’ cell phones and the Fitbit Connie was wearing that day, Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter deciphers the shocking truths of the case to uncover how and why this apparently senseless murder took place.

Officers respond when shots are fired; police are dispatched to a family disturbance; suspicious female in area known for its drug activity; crying female explains that she was trying to get her belongings when her mother attacked her because she got married in Las Vegas.

Three men with outstanding warrants are arrested. Also: A man is pulled over in a car and cops discover the vehicle is stolen.

A domestic dispute between spouses is investigated;report of a possible auto burglary in progress where the calling party states the suspect is still in the vehicle; department search a highly active gang area where a cop had been previously shot; call of a citizen that has spotted a young boy riding his bicycle in the street and cannot locate the parents.

A dangerous car chase ends when a suspect rear ends a vehicle at an intersection; DWI disturbance call; robbery at a local burger joint in which the suspects fled toward a trailer park; police approach two suspicious men in a car.

Police take into custody a woman they believe is wanted for drug trafficking.

A male suspect is arrested for battery of a police officer; police respond to a home being vandalized; an armed man thinks he hears voices outside his home and calls 911; a vehicle is pulled over for an equipment violation.

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