Sixty-four-year-old Thurman Martin ruled his family with an iron fist, brutally beating anyone who dared stand up to his emotional and physical abuse. Then one day he vanished, his family telling police he'd left with just a few changes of clothing.

Vicki and Gerald Monroe's dream of owning and operating a Louisville bar together came to a tragic end when Vicki found her husband shot dead and the cash register emptied in an apparent robbery.

The clock is ticking as police in northern Minnesota rush to rescue a kidnapped college student; it takes NASA technology for law enforcement to uncover the identity of the abductor, who turns out to be a serial predator.

When cops investigate the slaying of a casino worker in Las Vegas, they uncover a murder conspiracy that was months in the making.

Three women who advertised erotic services on Craiglist are assaulted, on of them is killed; surveillance video and witness reports match a man who no one would ever suspect to be a killer.

When a deadly sniper terrorizes the DC area for weeks, frantic police put out an APB for a white van, but the FBI has a theory that there might be more than one sniper, and they're not driving a white van.

When government intern Chandra Levy goes missing, detectives discover she may have been having an affair with a senator; a man in jail claims he has information.

When a young man is brutally murdered in his home, the only suspect with a motive is his ex-girlfriend, who claims she hasn't seen the victim for months; detectives uncover evidence, and phone messages that tell a different story.

When elderly women are murdered in an upscale gated community, detectives uncover a trail of credit card fraud that leads them to the killer.

A couple's vacation plans are thwarted when they find out their flight is canceled; they return home to find their house taken over by intruders.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

O.J. Simpson's history of domestic violence was a focal point for the prosecution; the defense claimed it didn't prove he was a murderer; Nicole Brown's sisters detail the abuse within O.J. and Nicole's relationship.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

When a 17-year-old girl breaks up with her abusive boyfriend, he snaps and breaks into her bedroom to attack her.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Ed Dossett and David Leath were friends with a lot in common; both were well-known around Knoxville, both married the same woman and both turned up dead under suspicious circumstances.

When a fire breaks out in Krystina Sutherland's apartment building, the first suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Charles Loayza; after all, he had threatened to burn it down earlier that day.

On Halloween 1999, Dirk Greineder found his wife, Mabel, brutally beaten in their neighborhood park; when Greineder's account didn't fit with the evidence, investigators took a closer look at him; what they found suggested he had plenty to hide.

In 1969, 15-year-old John McCabe excitedly left for a dance at a neighborhood hall; the discovery of his body in an abandoned lot launched an investigation that lasted 40 years and would turn childhood friends into bitter enemies.

When three high-schoolers are gunned down in their car, police launch an investigation into why they came to such a violent end; ten years later, that investigation reaches a dramatic conclusion in an Albuquerque courtroom.

Girly Chew had been worried about her safety; the investigation into her disappearance would take police into a world of aliens and reptiles, cancer cures and cannibalism, a world inhabited by a charismatic conman and his extra-terrestrial soul-mate.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

The investigation into two double murders committed five years apart leads police to a famous hospital and an unlikely suspect.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

DNA on one of two teenage girls killed in a similar fashion on a California beach six years apart leads investigators to a suspect who worked inside the police department.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Frank Jude nearly lost his life when a group of drunken off-duty Milwaukee police officers brutalized him over a missing badge; his real fight would be taking on the Blue Wall of Silence in his quest for justice.

Julie Jensen suspected her husband and the father of her children Mark Jensen wanted her dead, so she put pen to paper telling the world just that; Mark Jensen's lawyer attempts to use that same letter to prove that Julie framed him.

Jeffery Pyne was every parent's dream in so many ways, so many wonder what drove him to commit the brutal murder of his own mother.

Nancy Seaman doesn't denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after, what she claims, was three decades of physical and emotional abuse.

Experts examine a bomb left by robbers on a teller's counter.

A serial killer calls and taunts a victim's family.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

In 2014, a New Orleans filmmaker becomes a suspect in the 1996 murder of an Idaho teen after a search of a public DNA database yields a partial match.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

O.J. Simpson's history of domestic violence was a focal point for the prosecution; the defense claimed it didn't prove he was a murderer; Nicole Brown's sisters detail the abuse within O.J. and Nicole's relationship.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

A man disappears amidst rumors of a local satanic killer; journalist Chad Nance takes up the case as police come up empty-handed.

Chad Nance investigates the background of a mentally-ill killer, while a punk rocker war veteran is forced to make a gut-wrenching decision.

Chad Nance looks beyond the headlines of the Pazuzu Algarad murders to find out if monsters are born or made.

Satanist Pazuzu Algarad escapes trial by taking matters into his own hands; journalist Chad Nace faces the reality that a member of his family is at risk.

Following a dramatic revelation in the Pazuzu Algarad case, journalist Chad Nance and those impacted by the crimes struggle to understand the story they tell.

College friends selling bootleg T-shirts create an empire that pulls in thousands of dollars daily until drugs and arrests tear it down.

A woman's conviction of murder is overturned; football player Rae Carruth conspires to murder the mother of his unborn child.

A killer on the run masquerades as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune.

Police may have steered young Christopher Tapp into a false confession for a vicious murder; white supremacist Buford Furrow goes on a killing spree.

When a British businessman is murdered in China, signs point to a prominent family in the Chinese Communist Party; the Hollywood Madam provides escorts for A-list clients.

A good-looking wanderer picks up women in bars and murders them; when a doctor explains how intruders killed his wife and children, something does not add up.

Elderly widows target homeless men in plots to cash in on murder; an art investor bilks Hollywood celebrities out of millions of dollars.

Deranged Alexander Pichushkin goes on a killing spree near Moscow; art dealer Larry Salander swindles his big-name clients.

Aaron Hernandez goes from the football record books to life in prison for murder; a former stripper is accused in her husband's brutal death.

O.J. Simpson's history of domestic violence was a focal point for the prosecution; the defense claimed it didn't prove he was a murderer; Nicole Brown's sisters detail the abuse within O.J. and Nicole's relationship.

Five years after the Las Vegas shooting massacre.

The mystery surrounding the death of Caylee Anthony grips the nation; the only thing more shocking than the testimony is the verdict itself.

The discovery of Travis Alexander's body, stabbed, slit and shot in the neck, shocked his friends and family; Arizona police charge his girlfriend Jodi Arias with his murder.

A missing woman is found dead in Texas; interviews with her family, friends, investigators, and boyfriend.

The rescue of a woman found chained in a storage container leads investigators to discover the other crimes of the serial killer who held her captive.

Whether a true crime television show influenced the investigation of an alleged rape and murder case in Atlanta.

A woman turns to a private eye for help tracking down a Russian whom she believes robbed and killed her mother.

The investigation into the death of a woman's husband reveals he is not the first man she married who died under suspicious circumstances.

An $800,000 business deal between an entrepreneur and a Silicon Valley businessman looking to invest in the Napa Valley wine scene ends in murder.

An Oregon man who was accused of pushing his fiancée off a cliff during a hike tells his side of the story.

The investigation into the 2010 murders of Julie Kibuishi and Sam Herr lead police to a rising actor named Daniel Wozniak.

Terri Gilbert said she didn't know who was coming down the basement steps; she shot and killed him; turned out to be her husband whom she was divorcing; twenty years earlier, she told a similar story, about her first husband.

When Kathryn Hauser was found brutally murdered in her Albuquerque home, friends and family immediately thought it was her estranged husband; but the DNA points elsewhere.-- Changed stoptime! --.

In Lebanon, Maine, an estranged wife trying to start a new life can't escape her violent past; while in Vincennes, Indiana, a married engineer falls for the babysitter, but it leads to murder.

A pregnant wife is killed execution style; an EMT is intent on taking a life.

In Silverthorne, Colorado, a photographer's wife seems to have mysteriously vanished in the night, until detectives learn he has a violent past; in Darby, Montana, a husband is dead, and Police have two suspects - his wife and mistress.

In Easton, Pennsylvania, a lesbian love triangle spins out of control; in Gillette, Wyoming, a desperate housewife has a shocking tale of murder and revenge.

When the body of a missing 11-year-old girl washes up on a sandbar, the police take a closer look at her uncle's conflicting stories.

Shooters kill a police officer who had made more than 200 arrests in three years.

The FBI tracks a lone gunman responsible for a string of unsolved bank robberies.

The 11-year search for one of the killers in the murder of a vacationing couple leads to an arrest on the high seas.

A domestic disturbance call helps police to nab a convicted bank robber.

A copy machine, placed in a busy Las Vegas casino, is actually a bomb.

A kidnapper calls the victim's family.

A man is convicted of abducting a 5-year-old from a Christmas party based on microscopic evidence found in his vehicle.

A seemingly charming and generous California man targets vulnerable women for murder, prompting a cross-country manhunt.

The FBI sets up a sting operation to stop the criminal actions of an entertainment industry giant after a TV producer is gunned down.

A determined team tracked the flamboyant crime boss John Gotti, who assumed control of the Gambino crime family in 1985.

Chicago police hunt for a dangerous bank-robber.

Brothers' greed causes them to abandon all respect for human life.

O.J. Simpson's history of domestic violence was a focal point for the prosecution; the defense claimed it didn't prove he was a murderer; Nicole Brown's sisters detail the abuse within O.J. and Nicole's relationship.

O.J. Simpson's history of domestic violence was a focal point for the prosecution; the defense claimed it didn't prove he was a murderer; Nicole Brown's sisters detail the abuse within O.J. and Nicole's relationship.

A nationwide FBI manhunt for a sniper who targets African-American men, leaving no clues or witnesses.

Croatians seek to secure Croatia's sovereignty via terrorism.

The defense used the racial tension in Los Angeles as part of their strategy; see how their plan to convince jurors that the Los Angeles Police Department could not be trusted played out in court.

Detectives and FBI agents form the C-11 task force to dismantle gangs in New York.

After surviving an attack, a victim helps the FBI close a six-month investigation into the abductions, rapes and murders of 10 Florida women.

Scott Amendure thought the.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian thought it was an act of mercy to help over 130 terminally ill patients die a peaceful, pain-free death; Michigan prosecutors said it was murder and spent years trying to get a jury to agree with them.

The downfall of a wealthy Japanese businessman who has an obsession with drugging and raping Western women is that he saves videos of his attacks.

An actor is stabbed to death defending his brother in a fight.

Nancy Kissel incapacitates her husband with a milkshake full of sedatives before bludgeoning him; the U.S. government goes after a Mexican drug-cartel leader.

Cult leader Jim Jones has a U.S. congressman assassinated, then leads hundreds of followers in a mass suicide.

The defense used the racial tension in Los Angeles as part of their strategy; see how their plan to convince jurors that the Los Angeles Police Department could not be trusted played out in court.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

A court decision changes everything in the investigation into the murder of a couple and their daughter.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

A man who lost two wives under unusual circumstances comes under suspicion.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

At the age of 14, Coss starts selling cocaine in Manhattan's Lower East Side; by the time he reaches 18, he makes $3 million a year via his revolutionary, tri-state drug delivery service.

At 15, Art learns the craft of counterfeiting from his mother's boyfriend and goes on to become the best counterfeiter in the world, printing over $10 million of fake money.

Nineteen-year-old Fred traffics thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border between the United States and Mexico.

Big Herc sells crack at 15, robs drug dealers at 17, does porn at 18, robs banks at 27, and lives to tell about it all.

When Sherri Malarik is found dead in a Winn-Dixie parking lot, police suspect her husband Greg is involved; but it takes twenty years and the confession of his accomplice and former lover Jennifer Spohn to finally charge him with murder.

After a masked man shot dentist Norman Larzelere who dies in the arms of his hysterical wife Virginia, police initially suspect a robbery gone wrong; a friend of Virginia's oldest son Jason reveals a twisted plot.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

A personal fitness device that tracks steps, exercise and sleep becomes relevant in a murder case.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Dorothy Lee Barnett on how she fled the United States with her daughter, eluding the FBI for two decades.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

The murder of hometown NBA player, Lorenzen Wright remains unsolved until alleged accomplice Jimmy Martin reveals the location of the murder weapon, implicating Wright's ex-wife Sherra and her yardman Billy Ray Turner.

In a modern-day tale of Romeo and Juliet with a Florida twist, high schoolers Courtney Schulhoff and Michael Morin find solace in each other amidst a tumultuous family life; when their families force them apart the couple's desperation turns deadly.

Three members of the same family die of mysterious causes; police being to suspect they have been poisoned.

When an aspiring actress is found dead in the home of a legendary music producer, he claims it was suicide; as detectives piece together the crime scene, they zero in on their suspect and a history of bizarre behavior.

A killer terrorizes Wichita, Kansas, preying on random people and families, tying them up, and strangling them; police find a way to lure him to reveal his identity.

When a series of women are murdered in Baton Rouge, police draw a profile; one victim survives and tells detectives they're on the wrong trail.

Twenty years after a woman was killed at home, an LAPD officer opens the cold case file and sees the murder was staged to look like a robbery and the killer could actually be a cop.

When four women are killed at different times in different states after going home from a bar with a handsome young man dressed like a cowboy, detectives don't realize the murders are linked together.

Australian Paul Denyer, 20, says he has received.

Pan Am Flight 103 blows up over Lockerbie, Scotland; multiple scandals plague Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

The defense used the racial tension in Los Angeles as part of their strategy; see how their plan to convince jurors that the Los Angeles Police Department could not be trusted played out in court.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

When a man goes missing, his friends turn to social media to track his final hours.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Aissa Wayne, daughter of John Wayne, was in the middle of a messy divorce and bitter custody battle when she and her new boyfriend were assaulted by a pair of gunman.

By all accounts, Richard Carno had no enemies; so when he was found dead in his car with a bag taped over his head, investigators wondered who could done it; a trail of evidence would point to those closest to him: his wife and brother-in-law.

Mark Richards was paralyzed in a car accident; his live-in caregiver, Gloria Guzman, was also his wife; when she called 911 to report that Richards had drowned in his bath, paramedics were suspicious.

Successful Atlanta entrepreneur Lance Herndon usually got what he wanted, but when he is found bludgeoned to death in his waterbed, it appeared he got more than he could handle, possibly due to a business deal gone wrong or a girlfriend's revenge.

When an unknown assailant guns down sheriff-elect Derwin Brown shortly after winning his election, investigators suspect a political assassination, only to instead uncover an extensive trail of corruption.

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.

Former prosecutor Julie Grant is joined by a team of top trial attorneys and forensic experts to cover the high-stakes trials that are on the docket, and the crime cases dominating the headlines.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.

A military veteran finds himself facing murder charges for beating his girlfriend to death; now, doctors suspect his traumatic brain injury and PTSD explain his behavior.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

When a woman disappears, no one reports her missing for months until she misses an appointment with her hairdresser.

The most compelling legal stories of the day from Court TV's team of world class legal journalists.

Mary Kay Letourneau, 34 year-old married schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12 year old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world; it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.

Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.

No one argued that Naveed Haq suffered from mental health issues; he walked into the Seattle Jewish Federation office, started shooting, wounding six women and killing one; the jury has to decide if his mental health issues make it less of a crime.

When 15-month-old Ava Worthington became ill with a cold, her parents Carl and Raylene did what they always did, and insisted the power of prayer was the only cure she needed.

Agents discover a pattern in a series of violent carjackings.