People Magazine Investigates

- Season 6

(2022)

A savage killer goes on a homicidal rampage and then abducts two young siblings from their home in the middle of the night; the children quickly decide they will do whatever is necessary to survive.

In 1987, West Virginia authorities receive a call from a woman claiming to have shot her husband. This seemingly open-and-shut murder case is anything but.

During an armed robbery, a father of three is fatally shot. Twenty-three years later, another family questions if the wrong man is behind bars.

Investigators search for links to the mysterious cases of five young people who disappear between 1979 and 1982 in the rural area of Lewis-Clark Valley along the Idaho-Washington border.

Vanessa Bennett saw her family murdered by a hammer-wielding stranger when she was 3 years old. Now, she is speaking out, and her harrowing story is featured on this installment. On April 7, 2022, a Jefferson County jury found 61-year-old Alex Ewing guilty of killing Patricia Smith in early 1984. The result of the trial, following Ewing's conviction in August 2021 for killing three members of the Bennett family with a hammer less than a week after the Smith slaying, finally closes the book on cold cases that lingered for nearly four decades, in connection with the ...

This installment details the June 7, 1998 hate-crime killing of James Byrd, Jr., age 49, an African-American man, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck by three white men: John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer and Shawn Allen Berry.

Charlie and Joy Hibbs put down roots in the safe, tight-knit, working class community of Croydon, PA with their two children. But the family's newfound American dream be-comes a nightmare after their home is set ablaze and one of them is found murdered in-side.

In January 2020, a Mennonite woman, Sasha Krause, goes missing from her small religious community. Law enforcement is stymied when they find her body but forensic evidence leads them to a dead end. Detectives get creative in an effort to find their suspect, Mark Gooch.

Allyzibeth Lamont, age 22, who was known as "Ally Lamont" was murdered on October 28, 2019 in the Local No. 9 deli in Johnstown, New York where she had been employed. Her body, buried in a shallow grave, was found by police on October 31, 2019. She had noticed unusual labor law financial dealings by one of the co-owners of the deli, Greek immigrant Georgios Kakavelos, who feared she would report him to the authorities. In the end, both Georgios Kakavelos and Jimmy Duffy (a man Kakavelos hired for $1600 to murder and hide the body) were arrested and charged with her ...

On June 14, 2013, 19-year-old Adrienne Salinas and her two roommates are hosting a party at their apartment in Tempe, Arizona. The party is in full swing when Adrienne suddenly decides to leave. She gets in her car, drives away, and never returns home. In the days that follow, her family and friends work side by side with Tempe PD searching for Adrienne. When her body is discovered in a desert river basin, 35 miles awhile from her Tempe home, investigators suspect foul play. When all of their leads become dead ends, the case goes cold. But two years after Adrienne's ...

In May of 2002, a couple goes missing in Ocean City, MD. It's almost as if they vanished into thin air, until a random, late-night burglary leads police to discover a tale of deception, brutality, and savagery the likes of which they have never seen.

In 2011, a husband returns home to find his wife dead on the living room floor. He tells first responders she committed suicide, but in fact she was murdered - stabbed over 40 times. Police zero in on the husband and what unfolds is one of the most outrageous tales in recent history.

When neighbors find a young teacher axed to death on Friday the 13th, a sleepy suburb in Kansas fears a psychopath is loose. The bloody crime scene leads police to a most unlikely suspect, unfolding a story people still have to see to believe 40 years later.

Vanessa Bennett saw her family murdered by a hammer-wielding stranger when she was 3 years old. On April 7, 2022, a Jefferson County jury found 61-year-old Alex Ewing guilty of killing Patricia Smith in early 1984. The result of the trial, following Ewing's conviction in August 2021 for killing three members of the Bennett family with a hammer less than a week after the Smith slaying, finally closes the book on cold cases that lingered for nearly four decades, in connection with the 1984 "Hammer Killer" spree of attacks in metro Denver, Colorado. Part 1 of this story ...