Southern Disgrace

18-year-old Julie Heath's broken down car is found on the side of the road near Hot Springs, Arkansas and her body is discovered a few miles away a few days later. Who's to blame and what's his sorry excuse for what transpired?

Kelli Bordeaux is a 23-year-old army medic in training stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina when she goes missing after a night out at the bars. Her complicated personal life makes it difficult to pin down a suspect but a persistent PI takes it upon himself to track down her killer and make him confess.

When Marlene Warren is gunned down in the doorway of her upscale Florida home, an eyewitness tells the police about a rather unusual suspect...a clown driving a Chrysler LeBaron. Who had motive to murder Marlene and how long does it take to bring the killer clown to justice?

When a beloved Huntsville physician is found beaten and stabbed in his home, police work to determine if he was the victim of a robbery or if his seemingly distraught widow isn't as innocent as she appears...

Jennifer Wolfe Mize from Commercial Polygraph joins us and shares all the ins and outs of the polygraph test process

On Halloween night in 1974, Timothy O'Bryan dies after eating a Pixy Stix he got while trick or treating. Was there a stranger handing out poisoned candy or was the culprit a little closer to home?

When Lisa Guy doesn't show up for work at her Knoxville office after Thanksgiving weekend 2016, authorities are shocked at what they discover when performing a welfare check.

A young woman and her dog go hiking on a beautiful New Year's Day in Georgia but as the temperatures drop and snow starts to fall on Blood Mountain, they are nowhere to be found! Turns out they aren't the only ones who went missing while taking in the great outdoors...

This week, Ellen covers Gary Ray Bowles and his murderous road trip up and down the east coast. Why did he target gay men and how did he evade capture for four months?

Angie Samota is a very successful, bright young woman studying at SMU when a fun night out quickly becomes her downfall.

11-year-old Larry Thomas and his friend are just playing in a park outside of Birmingham, Alabama when they get in the car with a man who says he'll take them to meet their friend and get a drink. It's the last time anyone sees him alive.

Paul Warner Powell did the unthinkable. He murdered 16-year-old Stacie Reed and attempted to kill her 14-year-old sister Kristie. When a minor technicality gets him off death row, Paul takes the opportunity to rub the prosecutor's nose in his "mistakes." Listen to find out how that comes back to bite him.

When a young maintenance man in Coral Springs, Florida goes missing, family and friends start to wonder if there was trouble in paradise with his older girlfriend.

In a string of brutal murders in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997, fast food workers are being targeted and killed. After seven murders, the city is officially on the hunt for The Fast Food Killer. What they find is a failed country singer with a hauntingly similar criminal past.

Sleepwalking murders are rare, but not impossible! This week, Ellen shares the science behind sleepwalking, some cases where it was used as a defense and her own sleepwalking experiences.

A popular Dallas food reporter and her 17-year-old son are found murdered in their home but you'll never believe who makes the 911 call to confess...

A pastor and his wife in Fort Walton Beach, Florida take in a good looking girl who is down on her luck...but when she ends up pregnant and leaves her newborn baby with the couple, people start to wonder what's really going on.

When a pastor's wife is shot and killed in the driveway of their Houston home, police have to untangle a web of church drama, family issues and extramarital affairs. Was an angry parishioner to blame or could the culprit be closer to the pulpit than police originally thought?

When longtime Georgia law enforcement officer Derwin Brown is elected as the new DeKalb County Sheriff, one person in particular is not willing to accept defeat.

When a mother and daughter are found dead in Missouri in 1998, the case quickly goes cold...until the suspect's DNA is connected to two other cases of rape and murder in the South. But it isn't until Genetic Detective star CeCe Moore gets her hands on the case that we find out who the real killer is!

A prominent judge in West Palm Beach, Florida disappears. The case goes cold for five years. How does a seemingly unconnected murder help solve a cold case?

Billy Jack Gaither is a middle aged man living in Sylacauga, Alabama in 1999 just trying to do the right thing by taking care of his ailing parents. When he decides to leave his home late one Friday night, his family's lives are changed forever.

A young couple in Knoxville, Tennessee is headed out for the night when they become the victims of a carjacking but what happened next made them two of the most brutal murder victims in the state. Will the five suspects be let off because of a judge's bad behavior?

A young Texas mother starts to have hallucinations and says God was constantly ordering her to harm her children. Do psychiatric experts actually believe her claims?

In March 2005, a man on trial for raping his ex-girlfriend escapes custody and sends Atlanta, Georgia into a frenzy for 26 hours of terror. How did he escape and how was he finally apprehended?

Suzanne Collins was a 19-year-old Lance Corporal in the Marines stationed in Tennessee and set to graduate from aviation training on the very day she was abducted while out jogging and brutally raped and murdered. But is the man who confessed really the one responsible for her death?

A mentally handicapped African American man confesses to the 1983 Arkansas murder of a white Air Force nurse but the evidence doesn't match his confession. What happens next?

A North Carolina man makes it his mission to become the boogeyman in his small Christian town. Does he succeed?

Trisha Stemple is found dead by the side of the road near her abandoned car in Oklahoma in 1996. Does her husband's affair with a young fast food worker have anything to do with it?

Johnnie Allbritton is a 65-year-old Texas rancher gunned down in his home in what appears to be an attempted burglary. Decades pass without any leads until the small town of Buffalo brings in some famous assistance.

When convicted rapist Glen Woodall is proven innocent by DNA testing, West Virginia investigates the crime lab that ran the original test and uncovers fraud to the highest degree.

Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer are convicted of killing 3-year-old little girls. Their convictions stem from bite mark evidence but is the science actually legit?

In 2008, Fred Engel is strangled outside of his mailbox in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Detectives can't figure out who could possibly have had a motive until they start hearing about a mysterious red-headed stranger...

In 1884 Austin, Texas, an unknown assailant starts terrorizing servant women in their quarters in the middle of the night. City officials are unable to pin a suspect but that doesn't keep men from being charged. Who is the "midnight assassin?"

Sally McKay and her cousin Lee Baker were murdered in 1994 in a prominent home near Memphis. Little did Sally's daughter know that the story was far from over...

Nanette Krentel dies in a Louisiana house fire until investigators discover something shocking - she was already dead!

Reverend Willie Maxwell is gunned down at his stepdaughter's funeral but no one blames the man who pulled the trigger.

When prostitutes start turning up in Texas missing their eyeballs, police search for a killer with medical knowledge. What they end up finding is a man with a troubled past.

Terance Valentine is a Costa Rican man living in New Orleans when his marriage comes to an end and he just can't handle it.

Ellen tells us about Judy Buenoano, a money hungry wife and mother who leaves a trail of death behind her. Also, Hilary shares the details about a 21-year-old North Carolina cold case that has just been solved.

In 2005, 20-year-old Ryan Ferguson was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering Missouri sports reporter Kent Heitholt but did he actually do it?

Madison takes us back to Ozark for a cold case from the 1990s and Hilary shares the story of a not so loving wife in Edgewater, Florida.

Susan Hamilton is found murdered in her bathroom on Valentine's Day 2001 in Oklahoma City. By all accounts, she and her husband Dr. John Hamilton have a great relationship...but could he have snapped?

Wilson Robitaille has plans to rob an elderly couple in Hamilton, Alabama when his plans change last minute and take a turn for the worse.

A professor from Chicago leaves the city with his gay lover to escape modern day conveniences and build an isolated mansion in the woods of Georgia dedicated to sex and Satanism.

Lillian Madison is 8 months pregnant when she is found floating in a reservoir in Richmond, Virginia in 1885. Coroners rule it a suicide but then one of her cousins is named as a suspect.

First, Ellen covers the case of Christine Paolilla, a Texas teen who struggles to find friends when an older bad boy starts to show her affection and things go downhill. Then, Madison warns us about the dangers of Tianna.

When Britt Hall is found shot and killed in his Georgia home, his wife Michelle says he committed suicide...however the evidence presents another theory.

66-year-old Mattie Basinger is found murdered in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Who's the crackhead to blame?

Early Christmas morning of 1945, a fire breaks out in the Sodder home in West Virginia. George, Jennie and four of their children make it out but five of them are left inside. Why can't they find any remains?

When Zahra Baker moves from Australia with her dad to live with his new wife in North Carolina, no one had any idea of the hell she was living in at home.