72 Hours: True Crime - Episode Guide

In 1988, a promiscuous 22-year old boy from the Sikh community has one affair too many and ends up losing his life. Diligent detective work and DNA help police nail the killer who believed he had gotten away with murder.

In 2001, there are a series of murders of homeless people in Toronto. The latest killing is of a gentle man, well known in the area by residents who nicknamed him Santa Claus.

A cunning arsonist stays one step ahead of the police and terrifies a small farming community until behavioral profiling help detectives zero in on a very unlikely suspect.

In 1998, in a normally peaceful suburb, a pervert on a bicycle appears, performing sexual acts on himself and then attacking teenage girls. For reasons apparent to the residents, they nickname him after the Scottish Loch Ness monster.

An angel of mercy turns out to be an angel of death when the number of deaths in an Indiana Intensive Care Unit skyrockets. One astute nurse believes there must be more to this than just natural causes.

In 1996 a serial bomber begins planting bombs in public places and terrorizes the Prince Edward Island community. The mystery person leaves a strange swastika as a calling card, eluding capture for eight years.

The investigation of the murder of a shady Montreal businessman takes detectives into the lurid underworld of drug dealers, con men, and crooked lawyers.

In 1971, before the era of airport security, a Black Panther hijacks a plane to Havana, Cuba. A thirty-year old cold case is finally solved in 2002 by a fluke of modern technology.

In a Toronto suburb during the summer of 1996, a man leaves home for a business trip. He doesn't return. Fearing foul play, his desperate wife finally reports her husband's disappearance to the police.

Every woman's worst nightmare comes to life when a bearded sexual predator starts attacking women in the safety of their own apartments while they are sleeping.

A frat boy lures a girl to his house with the promise of a party, but once there it turns out he has ulterior motives. When the girl says no, he violently attacks her. A string of violence is finally uncovered, revealing a sinister trail of crime and violence.

Three teenagers accompany a deliveryman to a densely wooded area for a drinking party that, before long, becomes a nightmare. Things take a terrifying turn when one of teens attacks the others. While examining the scene, police are surprised to stumble upon a previous crime.

A young Orthodox Jewish man is in Pittsburgh to celebrate Passover with family when he is gunned down simply because of the way he is dressed.

Two murders of mothers in their own homes send shock-waves through a normally quiet and friendly town where everybody leaves their doors unlocked. The crimes go unsolved until twenty-eight years later when an astute veteran detective stumbles across some damning evidence that leads to an arrest.

A crazed gunman holds an ex-girlfriend hostage in a massage parlor. He has already wounded one officer, who is now trapped in the building near the gunman. So begins the amazing true story of a hostage-taking ordeal, seen through the eyes of the crisis team that handled it, and told in their own words. Their goal, rescue the wounded officer, save the hostage, try to take the hostage-taker alive.

In 1994, a troubled single mother is found raped and murdered in her apartment. Was it one of the volatile men in her life? All possible suspects are eliminated and the case goes cold for three years, until a nine-year old girl is brutally raped and the DNA data bank offers a match.

1995 - Houston, Texas. A lonely man calls a dating service and gets more than he bargained for when he is met at gunpoint and robbed by his "dates". The women, dubbed "Thelma & Louise", lure men with the promise of sex but then drug and rob them. Who are they, and who is the mysterious puppet-master behind their actions?

A wealthy Asian girl is kidnapped in Vancouver. When the kidnappers make the fateful error of using the young girl's cell phone, police are able to track their movements and capture the assailants.

In Calgary, Alberta, a beautiful Ethiopian woman is found brutally strangled. The victim's husband seems genuinely distraught over his wife's death, but there is something strangely suspicious about him.

In 1986, an American becomes one of Canada's most prolific bank and jewelry bandits after he pulls off one of the biggest heists in Canadian history. As more robberies occur, the police become ever more determined to catch the mastermind behind them all.

Firemen are called to put out a blaze and discover two sisters, one dead and the other on death's door. Detectives learn that a man snuck into the house late at night and brutally sexually assaulted the sisters before setting fire to the house. The attacker's face was covered with a balaclava and he had a chain around his waist that could have been part of prison shackles.

Surgically clean body parts start turning up on a highway. Stranger still, they have been drained of every drop of blood. Using a unique forensic technique that takes footprint impressions from the inside of shoes, police are able to connect the body parts to a missing 22-year-old violinist. Suspicion for the slaying falls on her ex-boyfriend and her new paramour, a college professor.

19-year-old Greg Parsons is convicted of brutally murdering his mother with evidence of the audio tape of a song he'd written, "Kill your Parents". After three years in prison, Parsons is released when DNA exonerates him and it's proven that a friend of his had given police the tape and, in a double betrayal, also murdered his mother.

A 19-year-old man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and the movie The Great Despisers that motivated the killers to perpetrate such violence?

A trucker stopping at a roadside rest station discovers the fully clothed body of a dead East Indian woman in the woods. An autopsy reveals that she has been strangled, she has an unusually high level of sedatives in her bloodstream and, mysteriously, there are several pairs of burn marks on her skin.

Whistler, B.C. is a winter wonderland for the rich and trendy. Three people meet - the son of a wealthy Frenchman, a Vancouver businessman looking for investors and a real estate agent trying to sell a mountainside estate. Unbeknownst to them, they are the latest victims of a notorious international con man.

The bizarre murder of a world-renowned anthropologist over the Christmas holidays shocks staff and students at the university where she teaches. Police get a clue that a stranger described as a female Hulk was seen shortly before the murder. In a case stranger than fiction, the murderer turns out to be not whom she appears to be.

When a senior citizen is killed on a city street, authorities at first treat it as a typical hit-and-run accident. But as they investigate further, they begin to realize that the culprit is a thrill-seeking psychopath who intends to kill people.

A woman is told by a friend that she was a passenger in a car where she was confronted with a guy's head in a bucket. The woman gets in touch with police. But the story keeps changing and the woman retracts. As police dig deeper, they discover a sordid tale of power and intrigue.

When the curiosity of an insurance claims investigator is piqued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young Sikh man, a trail of bigamy, deceit and murder is soon uncovered. Police detectives follow that trail and discover it leads all the way to India - and that the secrets of a massive killing spree can be traced back to one small, bitter pill.

A beloved small town public school teacher fails to arrive for work for the first time in 30 years, leaving an empty house and a baffled community. Vanished, she seems to have disappeared without a trace.

The wife of a successful jeweler is found in their home, stripped naked and beaten to death. The jeweler immediately falls under suspicion, but he's not alone. The couple had been overseeing expensive renovations to their home for the past year - meaning literally hundreds of people had access to the house before the murder.

A string of bank robberies in Winnipeg confound local police. Most bank-robbers are thin strung out addicts. This new man doesn't fit that profile as he is fat. When he strikes next he confuses police further by changing locales and hitting up a bank in Vancouver. One can only fool detectives for so long, however - sooner or later a thief's pattern will give him up.

Three bodies are found in a house, arms tied behind their backs. Stab wounds to the neck. Bloody footprints in the upstairs hall. These are the clues to a killing spree that leaves a young woman, her boyfriend and an elderly church deacon dead.

A withered corpse is found half-buried in a field beside a theme park. Too decayed to identify properly, detectives have only the leathery fingers of one hand to work from. When they manage to get a print, they identify the dead woman as a missing wife and mother. The husband casts the finger of blame on his wife's conman lover.

A young single mother in small town Saskatchewan visits her local hospital in the midst of a panic attack. Her doctor sedates her. Then, she is certain, he rapes her. But she's a party girl and the man she's accusing is a respected and esteemed citizen. No one, it seems, will believe her story.

An aging hippy is going through bad times. His wife has left him for a lesbian lover, taking their kids. His cancer, once in remission, has returned. When he's found dead in his home with a gut full of antifreeze - "the sweet killer" - it's sad, but not shocking that he looked for an escape in suicide.

Stuck at home and bored, a retiree takes a job at a 24-hour convenience store. On her third night at work a customer finds her on the floor behind the register, face down in a pool of blood. Detectives determine that her last customer was also her killer. Only two witnesses saw that customer.

A Toronto real estate broker fails to return home at the end of the day. Her family can't find her. But the police do - dead in a utility closet in her downtown office. The DNA found on her body is tested against 150 different men. No match. The case runs cold. And then an office employee suggests police investigate a former maintenance worker who has slipped under the detective's radar.

The phone rings in the middle of the night and on the other end of the line, there is the awful sounds of an attack. The couple who received the call rush to its source only to discover a horrific scene. Two teenage sisters, from Taiwan studying English for the summer have been viciously attacked in their basement apartment.

A dead woman is found in a park. When her body is identified it's learned the deceased is a recently divorced landlady of a group home for transients. The list of suspects is long; the clues police have to follow are few. And the only potential witness to the crime? A woman who remembers a car in the area the night the body was found.

One cold February morning in the dark stairwell of a Toronto apartment building, a security guard makes a grotesque discovery: the dead body of a Filipina nanny. It's clear she's been savagely murdered and raped. Police analyze the list of potential suspects - the boyfriend, the employer, serial offenders in the community.

A gorgeous young model is bludgeoned to death in her downtown Toronto apartment. The wounds to her head are so severe police initially presume she's been shot. Evidence at the scene suggests to detectives that the killer gained access to his victim by posing as a telephone repairman.

A young couple hit the road, hitchhiking their way across North America. They're free spirits keen to explore life and the world. When the young woman stops phoning home, her father becomes alarmed. But police dismiss the case as normal behaviour for a pair of young travelers.

A Girl Guide leader is found dead in her home on the floor of her bedroom. As there is no obvious cause of death, police are suspicious. When an autopsy reveals a small bullet lodged within the victim's brain with an entry wound through the left eye, detectives learn they're investigating a murder.