The Worst Episodes of People Magazine Investigates

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#1 - Terror in Philadelphia
S3:E211/13/2018
In 1998, a gifted Philadelphia graduate student is found murdered in her bed, triggering a hunt for her killer.
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#2 - The Freeway Phantom
S4:E411/25/2019
In 1971 and '72, Washington DC is terrorized by a cunning killer who abducts and murders six young African American girls. Police and the community are outraged by the serial killings that target young children in their own neighborhoods.
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#3 - The Cheerleader and The Hitman
S4:E912/30/2019
When a widower and father of three is found murdered outside his Long Island home, police have reason to look into shady business dealings as a possible motive. Then, a tip leads to three unlikely suspects, exposing dark family secrets.
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#4 - Suburban Secrets
S4:E111/13/2020
After doting mother Cheryl Coker vanishes from Riverside, OH, numerous searches turn up nothing; as police take a closer look at the case, they uncover some disturbing information.
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#5 - Natural Born Killers
S6:E118/22/2022
In May 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.
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#6 - Infamous Pam Hupp
S6:E128/29/2022
In 2011, a husband returns home to find his wife dead on the living room floor. He tells first responders she committed suicide, but it was murder. Police zero in on the husband and what unfolds is one of the most outrageous tales in recent history.
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#7 - Candy and Betty
S6:E139/5/2022
When neighbors find a young teacher axed to death on Friday the 13th, a sleepy suburb 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.
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#8 - Girl Scout Murders
S7:E17/10/2023
The 1977 brutal assault and murder of three Oklahoma Girl Scouts away at summer camp: Lori Lee Farmer, Doris Denise Milner, and Michele Heather Guse is discussed.
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#9 - The I-70 Killer
S7:E27/17/2023
An unknown shooter unleashes carnage from Indianapolis to Wichita, Kansas, killing six in the spring of 1992 at various retail stores near 1-70, a major east-west highway that runs through the very heart of the Midwest. A sketch of the suspect is developed from various eyewitness accounts, but police are at a loss ... until one victim survives.
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#10 - Where is Mark Himebaugh?
S7:E37/24/2023
In 1991, a young boy leaves home to check out a local brush fire that was capturing his neighborhood's attention and never returns home. Decades have passed and police continue to look for his abductor(s), while his mother is still waiting for him to find his way home.
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#11 - Final Rodeo
S7:E47/31/2023
A 16-year-old cowgirl goes missing in Nevada. Three days later her body was found draped under a blue tarp that had been dumped among the tumbleweeds. As police search for her killer, the investigation takes a sudden turn towards the boy she called "brother."
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#12 - The Strange Disappearance of Karlie Gusé
S7:E58/7/2023
In 2018, a 16-year-old girl vanishes into thin air the morning after attending a high school party in an isolated California mountain town. The bizarre mystery leads to speculation by internet sleuths that her parents are somehow involved due to inconsistencies in their story.
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#13 - Brighton Ax Murder
S7:E68/14/2023
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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#14 - Who Killed Our Girls?
S7:E78/21/2023
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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#15 - Held Captive: The Disappearance of Tanya Kach
S7:E88/28/2023
After moving to a new city following her parents' divorce, a 14-year-old girl finds herself lost and unloved within her new surroundings; she starts running away from home until one time, she never returns. It takes ten years before dark secrets are revealed.
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#16 - Dead in Bed
S7:E99/4/2023
In 2007, a 19-year-old woman is brutally murdered in the small town of Winnsboro, TX; the ensuing investigation reveals the small town has a few wolves masquerading in sheep's clothing. Some secrets come to light, but others may be buried forever.
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#17 - Star Crossed Killers
S7:E109/11/2023
After a single mother fails to show up for work, police find her brutally stabbed and her 14-year-old daughter missing from their home in an affluent gated community. Everyone fears she's in danger, but what they uncover is darker than they could have imagined.
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#18 - The Times Square Killer
S7:E119/18/2023
In the '60s and '70s, a serial killer stalks young women in New Jersey; at the same time, three women in New York City are sadistically murdered; no one expects that one man is causing the mayhem, let alone a seemingly ordinary father of three.
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#19 - Manhunt
S7:E129/25/2023
In 2003, a bank heist escalates into a robbery-homicide, shattering the lives of those left behind; federal and local law enforcement have his picture and DNA, but they can't find the cold-blooded killer until they learn he hides in plain sight.
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#20 - Long Island Serial Killer: Mystery at Oak Beach
S7:E1310/2/2023
A terrified young escort calls 911 as she flees into the night and vanishes; her family pressures police to take up the search, and investigators uncover a strange cast of characters - plus 10 other bodies spread along a remote stretch of beach.
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#21 - Long Island Serial Killer: Caught
S7:E1410/2/2023
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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#22 - My Father Was a Mass Murderer
S8:E1012/23/2024
Retired drama teacher Kathy Gillcrist embarks on a journey to find her biological parents. Her worst fears come to fruition when she discovers police want her father for one of the most infamous mass murders in Maryland state history.
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#23 - Inferno of Lies
S8:E1112/30/2024
A deadly fire in a small Illinois town raises questions as to whether it was a tragic accident or murder; the ensuing investigation uncovers a web of lies and deceit that results in one woman and her unborn child's life coming to a violent end.
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#24 - The Indiana Slasher
S8:E1212/30/2024
In 1975, someone abducts three young girls, stabbing them and leaving them for dead in a field; the Indiana Slasher evades capture, leaving his victims haunted for decades until new technology uncovers his true identity.
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#25 - Vanished in the Heartland
S9:E11/12/2026
Questions and accusations fly after savvy entrepreneur and mother of five, 52-year-old Dee Warner, vanishes from her rural Michigan home. Authorities struggle for answers, until one day they find her, closer to home than anyone could have imagined.
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