
Season 4
Episodes
Season 4, Episode 5: The Boy in the Box: America's Unknown Child is Unknown No Longer
Digging into a family search is no longer just for families tracing their own ancestry. It’s now a crime fighting tool, used by experts in the fast-growing field of forensic genealogy. I’m really going to be geeking...
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Season 4, Episode 4: Surviving: Doing Whatever You Need to Do
I didn’t know that it takes about four pounds of pressure to pull the trigger on a 9 mm handgun, did you? I read that that’s like the pressure in a firm handshake. That’s not all that much, especially when someone is...
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Season 4, Episode 3: Third Time's the Charm - Too Bad He Was Number Four
Murder by poisoning has been a popular method of getting rid of someone for centuries. As life insurance policies became more commonplace, arsenic was given the nickname “the inheritance powder”. And who else would...
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Season 4, Episode 2: Beyond Evil: Russell Smrekar and the Logan County Murders
Most people in Lincoln, Illinois, didn’t lock their doors in the 1970’s. They weren’t worried about murderers roaming around. Mike Hartnett and his wife arrived in town to work at Lincoln College, a private junior...
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Season 4, Episode 1: Deliver Us From Evil: Purging Guilt from Unsolved Murders
Jim Duckett was a lot of things to a lot of people - father, son, brother, uncle, friend, horse lover, good listener, veteran and more. That’s why it’s so hard to understand how he came to be tied to a chair in his...
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