Lori calls the police after her husband falls overboard during a boating trip on a lake. What starts as a search and rescue, evolves into something darker, as an investigation reveals there is more to this story. Through multiple interviews the police try to decipher the truth.

Lori Isenberg

Olivia Peters

Toby Rutner

Wyman Sangster

Israel Keyes

Sherri has mysteriously vanished, and police turn to her husband for answers; when she appears on the side of a California turnpike with her hair chopped off and several injuries, everyone is relieved she was able to get away from her captors.

Sherri Papini

A man and his parents are found murdered in their own home. Grant, the brother and son, is brought in for questioning by police. As Grant's recent troubles are laid on the table, he's confronted with the weight of how it all points to motive.

Grant Amato

After Chelsea Bruck goes missing from an outdoor Halloween party, friends and family are devastated when her remains are found over 6-months later. An exhaustive search of party goers lead authorities to Daniel Clay, a serial offender with a history of assault. By cozying up to Clay, interrogators slowly unravel the events of the evening, and just how deplorable one man can be.

Daniel Clay

Michael believes he's being questioned by the authorities about his involvement in a burglary, but the stakes are much higher than he even realizes. A woman has been found murdered and placed in her storage locker, and Michael is the prime suspect.

Michael Olson

When 19-year-old Jessie Blodgett is found strangled, authorities scramble to find the chief subject. They land on one-time boyfriend Daniel Bartelt. Seemingly someone with everything going for him, his demeanor wavers when evidence is brought up of another incident that he fits the description of, putting Bartelt, and his veneer of perfection, into the hot seat.

Daniel Bartelt

When a foreign woman goes missing while in America for a year of research, the hunt for the responsible party is considered top priority. Brendt is suspected of being the last person to have seen her alive, and as such, he may be the investigation's only hope for answers.

Brendt Allen Christensen

An execution style shooting outside a local restaurant leaves Raul Cuadros dead. Closed-circuit camera footage lead to known felon David Randall Wright. Wright, a whip-smart career criminal leads interrogators down a winding path as they hope to uncover what really happened between him and Cuadros, leaving police to wonder, whose interrogating who?

David Randall Wright

Rebecca calls the police when she finds her husband dead in their own living room. When the police begin to suspect that this widow could be a suspect, they must find a balance between pushing for the truth and potentially accusing an innocent woman struggling with grief.

Rebecca Fenton

When Lea Porter stops communicating with family members, they discover that she's found herself in a jam, and connected with Chris Adam Waide, a smooth-talking student ambassador at a local college. With Lea missing police bring in Waide, who's polished portrayal of himself tarnishes the more he keeps talking.

Chris Adam Waide

Angela has already confessed to the murder of her neighbor before she's even made it to the interrogation room. As the police start to question her, it's not a matter of what she's done, but what has pushed her so far as to see this as her only option.

Angela Stoldt

Security Camera footage gives police a different point of view than the one Lee Rodarte Jr. is presenting after 21-year-old Savannah Gold goes missing. Interrogators must navigate restaurant romance while trying to find out exactly what happened between the young waitress and her manager Rodarte Jr.

Lee Rodarte Jr.

A woman is reporting missing while visiting her boyfriend, Robert, in New Mexico. As Robert begins to explain the events that led to her disappearance, investigators find holes in his story that start to bring the whole event into question.

Robert Glenn Earley

James Lally readily admits that he has killed his partner Suzanne LaPierre. But it will take more than confession for police to locate her body, leading authorities to a long interrogation with an unsettled character who seems more concerned with his own comfort, that the dignity of his late partner.

James Lally

An extremely messy divorce leads to a woman hiding a large sum of money with one of her closest friends in the world. However, when the woman goes missing, her friend, Ashley, is believed to be involved in something more than just attempted fraud.

Ashley McArthur

After Melinda Pleskovic is discovered dead in her home just days before her daughter's wedding, police turn to her future son-in-law when his story doesn't seem to add up. But he has news of his own, a series of break-ins at the Pleskovic home may reveal the culprit, and it does, it's just far closer to home than anyone would have imagined.

Jeffray Scullin Jr.

A violent home invasion leaves Samantha tied up while her husband is kidnapped and then murdered. As Samantha explains to authorities exactly what happened to her, it's looking more and more likely that there could be more to this crime than what it initially seems.

Samantha Wohlford

Soldier Skylar Nemetz faces interrogation over his wife Danielle's death after claiming a lapse in gun safety. Authorities doubt his training could lead to such an accident, questioning his identity and military skills.

Skylar Nemetz

A new mother is found murdered soon after she's reported missing. Her partner and his best friend are brought in to be interrogated about her final night. But not every interrogation method works with every suspect, and not every theory proves true.

Gregg Mathu & Douglass Detrie

When Donald Hartung learns of his mother and brother's deaths, his reaction is flat, leading authorities to refuse to accept that he wasn't already aware of their murder. While they wait for forensics to come in, interrogators struggle to break through Hartung's stoic facade and come dangerously close to violating his rights by bringing his faith into question.

Donald Hartung

Stephen is questioned after he speaks to various news outlets about the search for a woman missing from his building. But when Stephen appears to shut down completely, the challenge moves from looking for a confession to trying to get him to speak at all.

Stephen Mark McDaniel

Sergeant Jeffrey Pelo is brought in for questioning after he was identified prowling outside a young women's house in the middle of the night. Adamant he's done nothing wrong, interrogators walk a tight rope questioning one of their own, who knows all too well the kind of tricks authorities play to get a confession.

Jeffrey Pelo

A confession to a lesser crime is still a false confession. When Nick Nehring admits to gunning down a man, claims of self-defense set him up for a shorter sentence. Getting the true story could mean the difference of years in how long this man is taken off the street.

Nick Nehring

Cassandra Robinson hasn't been seen in weeks and her family and friends are getting worried. With a one-year-baby at home, it is uncharacteristic of her to leave for so long. Authorities check in with her partner, entrepreneur Henry Martin Steiger, but he tells them the same thing he's been telling everybody: Cassandra is on vacation. Police then turn to Julian Mesure, Steiger's right hand man, who is confident that Steiger is innocent. Coloured by other witnesses, police are able to put together a different narrative, and confront Mesure a second time... but is it enough to get him to turn on his boss?

Henry Martin Steiger

A husband and wife are buried alive after being robbed. Evidence points to a group that includes Bruce and Michael as being involved. Even in the same investigation, the methods of interrogation utilized to get different suspects to talk can be a stark contrast.

Bruce Nixon & Michael Jackson

When Israel Keyes is apprehended in connection to Samantha Koenig's disappearance, police have no idea that it will lead them to a string of other murders. Despite promising to help authorities solve other missing persons cases and unsolved murders, Keyes is focused on controlling the narrative in the media about how he is portrayed, and the FBI must bite their tongues and suffer through the ramblings of a serial killer if they hope to find out the truth.

One Way Mirror uses actual interrogation footage released by courts after a guilty verdict has been reached, as the backbone of telling each story.  We will see the best, most telling parts of the investigation, including when the criminals begin to crack and when the investigators close in on their case.  Our crime experts will screen and analyze the interrogation and help the audience understand these interrogation techniques. This analysis will take the audience into the killer's mindset in this high pressure situation. What will they say to get out of this situation?  “The suspect’s story may change throughout the interrogation, but the facts never do.”

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