Mollie Westbrook
S01:E01 - The Boy Who Almost Got Away
In 1994, 6-year-old Rikki Neave was strangled by 13-year-old James Watson in Peterborough, England. His mother was wrongly accused. DNA evidence eventually solved the case in 2022, nearly 30 years later.
S01:E02 - His Last Victim
Illinois serial killer Bruce Lindahl accidentally severed his own femoral artery while stabbing a victim in 1981, dying on the spot. Decades later, DNA forensics posthumously linked him to over 12 murders.
S01:E03 - The Last Message
In 1999, 27-year-old Michelle Despinasse was shot dead in her Nanuet, NY home. Her answering machine captured her final moments, her voice pleading "Ken, stop", and became key evidence that convicted her ex-boyfriend.
S01:E04 - The Animal Within
In December 2019, 30-year-old Nadine Lott was brutally beaten by her ex-partner Daniel Murtagh in her Arklow, Ireland apartment. A neighbor witnessed him attacking her "like a wild animal," growling with rage. She died days later.
S01:E05 - No Safe Place
In January 1999, 28-year-old Meekiah Wadley was bound and smothered in her Richmond, CA home, leaving her infant daughter behind. The cold case was finally solved 22 years later through familial DNA technology.
S01:E06 - Swipe Right on a Killer
In 2016, 27-year-old Jessie Bardwell was murdered by her boyfriend Jason Lowe in Texas. He stored her body in his car for days while sexting other women. He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
S01:E07 - 37 Years of Silence
In October 1983, 15-year-old Tony Muncy's dismembered remains were found in garbage bags along a rural Ohio road. The case went cold for decades until DNA genealogy identified killer Daniel Anderson in 2020.
S01:E08 - A Convenient Alibi
In 1967, 75-year-old widow Louisa Dunne was raped and strangled in her Bristol home. The case remained unsolved for 57 years until DNA evidence led to the 2025 conviction of 92-year-old Ryland Headley.
S01:E09 - The Price of Popularity
In June 1984, 15-year-old cheerleader Kirsten Costas was lured out and stabbed five times by jealous classmate Bernadette Protti in Orinda, California. The case inspired the TV movie Death of a Cheerleader.
S01:E10 - Last Stop
In November 1993, 19-year-old college student Wanda Musk was abducted at knifepoint from her gas station job in Flint, Michigan, and beaten to death. DNA from a prisoner law finally solved the case in 2013.
S01:E11 - Forty Dollars
In 1991, 19-year-old aspiring actress Heather Stigliano was beaten and stabbed to death in her Myrtle Beach apartment during a robbery. James Whipple was caught weeks later and confessed, saying he killed her for drug money.
S01:E12 - The Classmate
In January 2018, 19-year-old gay college student Blaze Bernstein was lured to a California park by former classmate Samuel Woodward, who stabbed him 28 times. Woodward was convicted of hate crime murder in 2024.