Murder by the Book

- Season 2

(2007)

Housewife and church-member Betty Gore is found murdered in her own home. She has been axed to death 41 times. Wylie Police Department's investigation tracks down Betty's friend Candace Montgomery. On trial for murder, Candace admits to killing Betty and claims self-defense. Watch as best-selling author Sandra Brown takes you inside one of the most shocking verdicts ever delivered by a Texas jury.

New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci plunges into the case of one of D.C.'s most notorious and elusive career criminals. On the morning of July 7, 1997, the day-shift manager of a Georgetown Starbucks Coffee Shop arrives and finds the bodies of employees Emory Evans, Aaron Goodrich and Caity Mahoney who had worked the night before. All three have been shot to death. Metro Detective James Trainum and an FBI Special Agent team up and spend nearly two years attempting to track down the man responsible: Carl Derek Cooper.

Best-selling author Lisa Gardner presents the case of 25-year-old South Berwick, ME resident Amy St. Laurent. After St. Laurent disappears, what follows is a vast, multi-jurisdictional effort, with unprecedented collaboration between law enforcement agencies. Over the course of their many tireless efforts, investigators are led through multiple suspects, conflicting stories and cover-ups, and eventually, to a dangerous sexual predator who may have been hiding in plain sight.

Author Joseph Wambaugh recalls the 2004 killing of San Diego golf-course manager William Overson during an attempted robbery. Montgomery "Fritz" Bruce was sentenced to life in prison for shooting Overson.

The dismembered body parts of young mother and aspiring model, Karyn Slover, are found on the shore of a lake.

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Mark Winger, a husband and father, catches a man in the act of bludgeoning his wife to death.

On the Yom Kippur holiday in 1985, an affluent Jewish-American couple is shot to death in the parking garage of their Brentwood, California condo.

Author Elizabeth George tells the true story of Dr. Kenneth Stahl and his wife, Dr. Carolyn Oppy-Stahl, who were shot to death in their car. The Stahl's double homicide crime scene at the side of the remote Ortega Highway in rural Orange County, CA has no physical evidence. The case digs deep into the lives of Ken and Carolyn to find an answer. Investigators find that underneath their facade of success is a crumbling, loveless marriage with financial difficulties.

Kathy Reichs recalls the murders of atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son and granddaughter.

College student Jarrod Davidson is shot and left to die on his front doorstep. Police wonder if his recent, tumultuous divorce is somehow related.

When 44-year-old husband and father Jeff Zack is gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police are initially baffled.

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