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Penny Scaggs believes in being a dutiful Christian wife and even teaches local women how to build harmonious relationships; she is later found brutally beaten and stabbed beside her beloved yellow piano.

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The people of Defiance, Iowa, find it strange when Scott Shanahan disappears, leaving his wife and kids, but Scott is always unpredictable and no one gives it much more thought.

A Year in Defiance

Bonny Lee Bakley had nine husbands before she meets former "Baretta" star Robert Blake, and he would be her last; as she waits for Blake outside a Los Angeles restaurant, someone approaches her car and shoots her in the head.

If You Can't Do the Time

When drug-addicted casino owner Ted Binion turns up dead in his mansion, the suspects are pure Vegas: an ex-stripper girlfriend, a contractor who knew where his silver was buried, and a mob boss who launders money through his casino.

What Happens in Vegas

Austin, Texas, TV executive Steven Beard is shot as he sleeps; with only a single shotgun shell to go on, police follow a trail from mansions and country clubs to bookstores and hospital psych wards.

Rude Awakening

Iowa farmer Tom Lyon is excited when a nearby plot of land goes up for sale, but he isn't the only one. When Lyon's body is discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood leads through that very land.

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The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.

Fortunate Son

When teenager Dennis Lewis is killed fighting off home invaders, all police have to go on is a single handprint; when lab results reveal who the print belongs to, no one wants to believe it.

Mirror Image

When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.

The Puppetmaster

Rosemarie Essa appears to die in a car crash; when police learn this was no more than a low-speed fender bender, they begin to suspect foul play by someone who knew what they were doing.

Medical Mystery

What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, Fla., ends in blood-soaked violence, leaving a mother of three a quadriplegic; police find that this seemingly random act may not have been so random after all.

Deadly Letter

Lita McClinton thinks the man at her door is just delivering a dozen pink roses, but the delivery guy delivers death instead; the decades-long hunt for justice spans multiple continents before reaching a dramatic conclusion in an Atlanta courtroom.

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