This Teen Murder Influenced The Lord of The R...

Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., a once-trusted anesthesiologist at a Dallas surgical center, was convicted of grotesquely betraying his medical oath by secretly injecting powerful drugs into bags of IV fluid meant to help patients, turning routine procedures into life-threatening cris ...  Show more

Betty Lou Beets was a Texas woman who became known as the “Black Widow” after murdering two of her husbands in the early 1980s for financial gain. 

In this week’s investigation on Hot On The Case, we’re looking into the chilling murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart, a case that has since been tied to the infamous “Scream Killers.” In a quiet Idaho town, two disturbed teenage boys found each other in high school, bonding over their o ...  Show more

In one of the most infamous cases of the early '90s, Pamela Smart—a 22-year-old high school media coordinator—began a secret affair with her 15-year-old student. Months later, her husband, Gregg Smart, was found dead. The shocking twist? That same student pulled the trigger. This ...  Show more

From the moment Susan Woods was found dead at home in the summer of 1987, everyone in Stephenville, Texas—including the police—was certain she’d been killed by her estranged husband. That left the real culprit free to prey on others. In "Stephenville," best-selling author Bryan B ...  Show more

From the late 1960s to the late 1980s, 12 girls and young women lost their lives at the hands of Fred and Rose West, including their own daughters. They would come under suspicion in August of 1992 after one of their daughters reported to a friend that her father had sexually abu ...  Show more