When a 999 call came in at 8:22pm on the evening of May 14, 2018, the man on the other end, his voice shaking, told the operator that he had just returned home to find his house had been broken into and his wife had been attacked.

Inside, he said he had found her lying on the living room floor, bound in duct tape and unconscious, as the operator immediately began asking questions, trying to establish whether she was still breathing, who he was, and who his wife was.

As Mitesh struggled to remove the duct tape from her body, his breathing became heavier and more panicked, and while the operator quickly called for an ambulance and assured him it was on its way, he also tried to keep him calm, continuing to gather information about what had happened inside the house and the condition his wife was in.

But as the call went on, his performance intensified. He became increasingly breathless, at one point begging the operator to contact his father. The operator kept him talking, asking questions, gathering details. Mitesh obliged — painting a picture of their home life, their routine, his voice catching and breaking on cue.

Eventually, he told the operator he had managed to remove the tape, continuing to repeat that someone had come into the house and tied her up, as the operator, sounding slightly uncertain, pressed him for more detail about how she had been found, prompting him to describe the scene in increasingly graphic detail.

Towards the end of the call, with the ambulance now just moments away, Mitesh appeared to break down completely, sobbing and asking again for his father to be contacted, while the operator continued trying to reassure him, telling him help was almost there.

But when paramedics arrived at the semi-detached Victorian house on The Avenue in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, they found 34 year old Jessica Patel lying on the living room floor.

Devastatingly, she was already dead. Why had he done this? Why had a man taken the life of his own wife in such a brutal, calculated way — a woman who had loved him, supported him, and spent years trying to give him the family she had always dreamed of?

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When police arrived at a rural home on Furman Fendley Highway in Jonesville, South Carolina, on July 22, 2013, they found a husband and wife lying in their living room, both shot and stabbed.

There were no signs of forced entry. No witnesses. And no immediate answers.

But outside the house, cameras had been recording.

Within hours, investigators would know exactly who had been there.

Had this been a calculated, vigilante-style killing?

Were the people responsible, acting on some kind of twisted belief system?

And when they stood in court, claiming remorse… was any of it real?

Or was it all just a cover?

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00:00 Case 1 - Jessica Dishon

23:15 Case 2 - Janet Chandler

59:21 Case 3 - Shani Warren

01:22:16 Case 4 - Daniel Holdom

01:54:31 Case 5 - Jodine Serrin

02:18:22 Case 6 - Kristin Smart

03:27:34 Case 7 - Gretchen Harrington

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On the evening of June 8th, 2009, in Lockport, New York, 24-year-old Renee Greco sat at a table playing cards with a group of teenagers she was responsible for caring for.

Within the hour, she would be dead — killed by two of the boys sitting at that same table.

When one of them stood in court to face the consequences, he didn't express remorse. He just denied his actions and hurled insults at the judge.

The judge looked straight back at him and said: "I have very rarely in my life looked into the eyes of a monster."

This is the story of Renee Greco — and how the system put her alone in a room with teenagers she was afraid of.

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On the night of 26 June 1992, in the quiet town of Masterton, New Zealand, a brutal attack unfolded inside a family home.

Inside were children, a teenager, a young couple, and a woman just weeks away from giving birth.

By the time the night was over, all of them were gone.

The man responsible was not a stranger. He was someone they knew. Someone who had lived in that house, who had been part of that family, and who, just days earlier, had been asked to leave.

What followed was not a moment of chaos, but a sustained and deliberate attack that would become one of the most devastating family killings in New Zealand’s history.

And more than thirty years later, the questions surrounding that night still haven’t gone away.

Because this case is not just about what happened inside that house…

…but why?

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On April 22, 1985, in East Anchorage, Alaska, three members of the same family were murdered inside their own home.

It was a controlled, deliberate and brutal attack, carried out in a place where they should have been safest.

Weeks later, those responsible were caught — a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend.

The case shocked the community, not just for the brutality of the crime, but for the age of those responsible.

At just fourteen years old, she was sentenced to two hundred and ninety-seven years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever given to a juvenile in Alaska.

But how was it that decades later, in 2025, she would walk out of prison a free woman?

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On July 10, 2022, just after 5 p.m., police were called to a home on the 800 block of Orange Avenue in Helena, Montana, after a man dialled 911 and told dispatchers he had just opened fire on people inside his own home, claiming they had been trying to attack him.

Within moments, a second call came in from the same address, this time from another person inside, reporting that a woman had been shot.

When officers arrived, they stepped into a scene that was already unravelling, with multiple people inside the property and clear signs of violence having just taken place.

Seven people had been in the house at the time, four of them under the age of 18.

Among them was eight-year-old Arianna Frankie Louise Valez.

And her mother, Heather Hall.

As first responders moved through the home, they found Arianna suffering from a gunshot wound to her back, having been struck as she tried to get away from the chaos unfolding around her, while Heather was also found injured nearby.

Both were rushed for emergency medical treatment as officers worked to secure the scene and understand what had just happened inside that house.

Because at that moment, all they had was a 911 call from a man claiming self-defence… and a home filled with victims.

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When six-year-old Teresa Cormack didn’t return home that afternoon, it quickly became clear that something was wrong.

Her mother, Kelly Pigott, soon discovered that Teresa hadn’t been at school that day at all. Panic set in.

Kelly went out searching immediately, walking the route to the school, checking the streets, calling her name—hoping she would find her daughter nearby. But there was no sign of her.

As the hours passed, police were called, and what began as a missing child search quickly escalated. Officers and more than 600 volunteers combed through Napier, searching streets, alleyways, and open land, desperately hoping Teresa would be found safe.

But she wasn’t. Not that day. Not the next.

It would be eight days later when a woman walking her dogs made a devastating discovery—Teresa’s small body, half-buried at the bottom of a bank beneath a tree on Whirinaki Beach…

…what had happened to Teresa, who had committed such a horrific act against a defenceless child, and how long it would take before justice was finally served.

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