On the Case with Paula Zahn

- Season 24

(2022)

A young female soldier is found slain after a night out in Colorado Springs, CO. The investigation into her torture, molestation and murder eventually goes cold. It takes decades and advances in DNA processing to finally land her killer and bring him to justice.

Investigators must overturn a shocking decision before they can solve the hauntingly familiar murder of a teenager.

As police investigate the gruesome murder of a mother and child, they realize all the evidence indicates the killer was someone the victims knew and trusted.

A beautiful young woman turns up savagely murdered in a bar parking lot; as investigators retrace her last known steps, several suspects with possible motives come on their radar.

Police wonder if a young woman's personalized license plate, FLRT 12, makes her the target for murder or if a far more sinister plot is behind the crime.

Police find a giant sword, bent in half, alongside a male victim who has been savagely murdered. Investigators must sort through the details of his complicated life in order bring his killer to justice.

After a loving mother is murdered inside her own home, police focus on their two best clues -- a blood-stained hammer and a dusty footprint.

A romantic date at a high school Valentine's dance turns into a night of terror when a teenager is abducted from her boyfriend's arms at gunpoint.

An unidentified woman is found callously murdered in an off-campus apartment; police have no leads on the case until her terrified neighbor shares a chilling story.

The baffling murder of a young woman leads police to two potential suspects: her new boyfriend and an obsessed stalker.

The search for the man who murdered a single mother might lead police to the perpetrator of a second brutal crime with chilling similarities.

A college student disappears, and her family launches a desperate investigation to find her; what they discover changes their lives forever.

17-year-old Maureen Brubaker Farley is found dead in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When suspect leads dry up, the case goes cold. It will take 50 years before her killer is identified.

On December 2, 1983, Kellie Jean Poppleton, age 14 from Fremont, California, was discovered dead on the side of Kilkare Road in Sunol, California. Thirty-eight years later, the case still remains unsolved. A cold case for Kellie was opened in 2004, and investigators with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office have since obtained the DNA of the male assailant, but do not have any matches in the CODIS database. Likewise, genetic genealogists have been unable to find a relative of the killer which might point toward his identity. There is the suspicion that the killer was ...

A young mother vanishes, leaving only enigmatic clues and troubling questions in her wake, but a needle in the mud could reveal the truth about her disappearance.

Puzzling clues and odd witness accounts create huge challenges for investigators who are trying to solve the 1987 murder of Barbara Blatnik, age 17, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.