NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Where is Kristin Smart?
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/2024
In 1996, a college co-ed vanishes after attending a party over a holiday weekend and is presumed dead. There is immediately a prime suspect but a lack of evidence to prove it. Decades later, a discovery found six feet under turns the case upside down.
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6.0/106 votesLoading...#2 - The Soccer Mom Murder
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2024
In 2001, a mother of five is found shot in the head in her own minivan. Investigators have little physical evidence and struggle to make an arrest. As the children grow up, the family becomes divided over who killed the beloved soccer mom.
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6.5/1035 votesLoading...#3 - Valley of Death
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 6/27/2022
Five young people disappeared over a span of four years in the rural area of Lewis-Clark Valley, along the Idaho-Washington border. Investigators search for links to the mysterious cases.
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6.6/1055 votesLoading...#4 - Jeffrey MacDonald: The Accused
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2017
An army surgeon, Jeffrey MacDonald, is the lone survivor of a brutal 1970 home invasion that claims the lives of his wife and daughters. But authorities doubt his story of murderous hippies and believe MacDonald is the culprit.
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6.7/1031 votesLoading...#5 - Darkness in the Desert
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2022
A 19-year-old coed leaves her apartment and never returns. When her body is found in a desert river basin, police and internet sleuths alike wonder if she was a victim of an alleged killer known as The Zombie Hunter.
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6.7/1029 votesLoading...#6 - Who Killed Our Girls?
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 8/21/2023
Four teenage girls are brutally murdered in a yogurt shop in North Austin, Texas, in 1991, in what becomes the biggest mass murder in Austin history. The investigation that follows drags on for years, and even when police make an arrest, justice is not guaranteed.
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6.7/1028 votesLoading...#7 - Dead in Bed
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 9/4/2023
When a 19-year-old girl is found murdered in her boyfriend's bed in a small Texas town, everyone is a suspect. The case goes cold until a new sheriff comes to town who sheds fresh light on some old evidence, but will it be enough to bring her killer to justice?
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6.8/1051 votesLoading...#8 - JonBenét: The Untold Truth
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/2016
[20-Year Murder Mystery] Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996. Investigators try to unravel if she was killed in a kidnapping-gone-wrong, by a home intruder or by one of her own family.
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6.8/1047 votesLoading...#9 - Marked for Murder
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/2017
[Justice for Dan Markel] In Florida, friends and family are stunned after an esteemed criminal law professor is executed in his garage; investigators follow a series of leads taking them on a statewide hunt in search of the murderous masterminds.
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6.8/1022 votesLoading...#10 - Star Crossed Killers
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/2023
When a single mom tells her 14-year-old daughter to break off a relationship with a 19-year-old man, the young lovers murder the girl's mom, setting off a manhunt and culminating in a trial replete with finger-pointing and betrayal.
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6.9/1052 votesLoading...#11 - Stranger Than Fiction
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/2016
[Murder by the Book] On June 12, 1991, outgoing Jackie Galloway is found strangled and bound with ritualistic knots. Police investigate suspects in her inner circle but are shocked when a chance encounter with a prowler leads them to discover the murderer is a budding serial killer.
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6.9/1049 votesLoading...#12 - Murder at Sea
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/11/2017
[Who Killed the Coulthurst Family?] A premiere fishing boat explodes into flames just off shore, stunning the small fishing town of Craig, Alaska; after fighting the flames, state troopers discover the remains of a young family and few clues as to could have set the ship blaze.
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6.9/1045 votesLoading...#13 - Highway of Horrors
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2021
College student Tammy Zywicki vanishes in 1992 after her car breaks down on the highway. Family and friends scramble to find her, but when her body is found 500 miles from where she vanished there are very few clues pointing to her killer. Police struggle with dead-end leads and suspects who don't pan out. New DNA technology promises to finally crack the case decades later. As her family clings to the last of their hope, the fear is that it may be too little too late for justice.
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7.0/1047 votesLoading...#14 - Blood In the Sand
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/2018
[Teenage Murder] In 1984, the body of a 14-year-old girl turns up on the beach in San Diego and police think it relates to the murder of another teen; a clue yields an unbelievable suspect.
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7.0/1012 votesLoading...#15 - The Boogeyman
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2024
The Lunsford family's lives turn upside down when someone snatches Jessie from her bed.
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7.0/109 votesLoading...#16 - A Story to Die For
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/2024
Virginia firefighters respond to a house fire in Upperville, Virginia where they discover the body of a local journalist. The fire destroys any hope for evidence, but the victim's social media history leads police down a rabbit hole.
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7.1/1053 votesLoading...#17 - Where Is Baby DeOrr?
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/2017
[Every Parent's Worst Nightmare] A young couple's toddler vanishes while the family is enjoying an impromptu camping trip in Leadore, Idaho; investigators and private detectives work around the clock to find the missing boy, only to come back to his parents.
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7.1/1045 votesLoading...#18 - Children of Thunder
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/29/2019
[Secret Cult of Terror] In the summer of 2000, bags full of body parts start appearing all over the San Francisco Bay Area; investigators follow the trail of grisly clues to a secret cult carrying out a sinister scheme.
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7.1/1039 votesLoading...#19 - Who Killed Jane Doe 59?
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/2019
[Another Manson Murder?] In 1969, a woman is found murdered in Los Angeles, but her identity is a mystery; for decades, police investigate hoping to put a name to the face and find her killer; the one lead that comes up over and over leads them to Charles Manson.
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7.1/1031 votesLoading...#20 - Mother's Orders
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 6/13/2022
A mother's bond to her daughter is put to the ultimate test when one of them shoots a man dead.
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7.1/1026 votesLoading...#21 - Brighton Ax Murder
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/2023
In 1982, in an upscale suburb of Rochester, New York, a Kodak executive returns home and finds his wife dead with an ax in her head. People believed a madman was on the loose, so 40 years later when police make an arrest, everyone is stunned at who stands trial for the murder.
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7.1/108 votesLoading...#22 - Long Island Serial Killer: Caught
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 10/2/2023
When police discover 10 bodies strewn along a remote beach, there are few answers and even fewer suspects; over a decade later, a new investigation uncovers old leads, and police finally think they've found their man.
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7.2/1056 votesLoading...#23 - What Happened to Baby Lisa?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/2016
[Gone Without a Trace] In 2011, a 10-month-old baby girl goes missing from her home in Kansas City. The family fears she's been kidnapped by a drifter, only to be accused by the police of being responsible for her disappearance.
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7.2/1039 votesLoading...#24 - Death Before Dawn
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/29/2018
[A Family Shattered] Police investigate the shooting deaths of millionaires Brad and Andra Sachs in their home in 2014 and track a series of clues in a chase to find the couple's killer.
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7.2/1047 votesLoading...#25 - Somebody's Watching
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/2018
[Blaze on the Bayou] After a fire chief's wife's burned body is discovered, an autopsy reveals she died from a gunshot wound to the head, and the arson investigation turns into a hunt for her killer.
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"Where is Kristin Smart?" is the worst rated episode of "People Magazine Investigates". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/18/2024. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Soccer Mom Murder".