People Magazine Investigates — Season 7

The horrific 1977 attack and subsequent deaths of three Oklahoma Girl Scouts at a summer camp – Lori Lee Farmer, Doris Denise Milner, and Michele Heather Guse – are examined.

In the spring of 1992, an unidentified assailant spread devastation across the Midwest, striking at retail establishments along Interstate 70, the vital east-west artery threading through the region. Six people perished in a series of attac…

The summer of 1991 began like any other for a boy who lingered near the edge of his neighborhood, drawn by the orange glow of a brush fire that had captivated everyone's attention. He went to see it, and he never came back. Years have since…

In Nevada, a sixteen-year-old cowgirl vanished without a trace. Three days later, her body was discovered, concealed beneath a blue tarp discarded amongst the desert scrub. As law enforcement pursues leads in the search for her killer, the …

The summer of 2018 began with an unsettling disappearance. A sixteen-year-old girl vanished the morning after a party held in a secluded mountain town in California. The circumstances surrounding her absence sparked intense online scrutiny,…

The year was 1982. In a prosperous suburb of Rochester, New York, a Kodak executive returned home to discover his wife murdered – an axe had been used against her head. The prevailing assumption was that a deranged individual was responsibl…

In 1991, a horrific crime unfolded at a yogurt shop in North Austin, Texas: four teenage girls were brutally murdered. The event etched itself into Austin’s history as its deadliest mass killing. The ensuing investigation stretched into yea…

The relocation to a new city, a consequence of her parents' separation, left the fourteen-year-old girl adrift. In this unfamiliar environment, she felt a profound sense of isolation and neglect. Driven by a desperate yearning for connectio…

The year was 2007. In the quiet town of Winnsboro, Texas, a nineteen-year-old woman was savagely murdered. The subsequent investigation exposed a darkness within the community, revealing that beneath the veneer of normalcy lurked individual…

The single mother’s absence from work triggered a grim discovery: police found her brutally stabbed within the confines of her home, a residence nestled in an affluent gated community. Her 14-year-old daughter was also missing. A palpable f…

The 1960s and 70s witnessed a chilling pattern: a serial killer preyed on young women in New Jersey, while in New York City, three women met particularly brutal ends. The authorities, and the public alike, remained unaware that a single man…

The year was 2003. What began as a bank robbery spiraled into a brutal act of homicide, irrevocably altering the lives of those left behind. Federal and local authorities possessed his photograph and DNA, yet the calculated killer remained …

Terror seized the young escort as she fled into the night, her frantic call to 911 swallowed by the darkness. She disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a family desperate for answers. They implored the police to launch a full-scale se…

Ten bodies were found scattered along a desolate stretch of coastline, leaving investigators with scant answers and an even shorter list of potential culprits. A decade passed, and then a renewed inquiry stirred the dormant case back to lif…


