Finding BTK
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2005
BTK Dennis Rader terrorizes Wichita, Kan., for decades, leaving at least 10 murder victims in his wake.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2005
BTK Dennis Rader terrorizes Wichita, Kan., for decades, leaving at least 10 murder victims in his wake.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2005
Nearly 20 years after they first suspect him, police arrest Gary Ridgway, the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2006
A deacon suspected of having an affair is found shot to death in Tijuana, Mexico; a woman claims she was assaulted by the man that killed her husband.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2006
A detective tracks down a man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier; police search for the killer of an 18-year-old hitchhiker.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2006
Publicity of a man's mandatory release in Texas brings forth a witness to a murder in Michigan.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2006
A cell phone and an ATM card lead to the apprehension of a rapist.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2006
Detectives work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of a 14-year-old.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Apr 2, 2006
DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student; a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Apr 9, 2006
In 1987, a young girl is found raped and strangled; in 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: May 6, 2006
A wiretapped conversation between a suspected killer and his sister cracks a 9-year-old murder case; a geologist finds human bones, solving the murder of a Virginia woman.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Jun 3, 2006
A police detective suspects a killer preys on older women; a protective mother disappears after learning her daughter has been sexually molested.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2006
Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jul 15, 2006
A brother is a suspect in the case of a 12-year-old found dead in her home in 1998; a 69-year-old woman is the victim of rape and murder in 1984.
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2006
In 1995, two women are raped in Louisville, Ky.; in 1982, a young man is found murdered in Deadwood, S.D.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2006
Detective Danny Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman.
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2006
In 1947, actress Elizabeth Short's corpse is found nude and bisected in an empty lot.
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2006
Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes; a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2006
A banker is beaten to death in his bed; a man with a guilty conscience helps police.
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2006
A missing sailor's sister works to prove he was killed; rape and murder.
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2006
The 1988 rape and murder of a California woman; a jailhouse snitch.
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2006
Two young girls are raped, murdered and dumped in an abandoned house; a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995.
Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2006
A 25-year-old woman is killed in a hotel room in 1978; a 25-year-old woman is shot to death during a jewelry-store robbery in 1980.
Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2006
A woman is found murdered in her mobile home; an Oregon man is shot dead.
Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2006
A Detroit cab-company owner is murdered in 1989; in 1986 a woman is found murdered in her bedroom.
Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2006
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killer; the investigations of a woman's murder and the death of a man killed in a car crash use DNA analysis.
Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2007
Episode: 5x27 | Airdate: Sep 20, 2007
Episode: 5x28 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2006