The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade

In Boston, Carol Stuart and her unborn child are shot dead, while her husband, Charles, survives the shooting to describe their black assailant and inflame racial tensions, then a witness comes forward with a story that blows open the case.

Teenager Jennifer Levin is found strangled to death in Central Park, and a prep school heartthrob, Robert Chambers, is arrested for the crime; the press seizes on Chambers' claim that Levin's death happened during rough sex.

Fifteen-year-old cheerleader Kirsten Costas is stabbed to death in a California suburb, and a teenage girl is seen fleeing the scene; as months pass without an arrest, the police are stumped.

An entire family is wiped out in a mass murder, stunning a small town in Missouri; at first, the unlikely suspect is a 14-year-old boy, but the truth turns out to be even more shocking.

Stockbroker Joe Pikul and his wife, Diane, are living the high life, then Diane discovers Joe's been leading a double life, and within days of the stock market crash on Black Monday in 1987, their marriage comes to a violent end.

Single mother Linda Culbertson lands a dream job as a legal secretary in a Kansas City, Mo., law firm, and falls hard for her married boss, Donald Pierce; the fallout is deadly as Culbertson draws bystanders into a shocking and vicious crime.