The Face of Evil

The 1994 torture and murder of a married mother of three shakes the heartland community of Newton, Kan., to its core; when a woman goes missing in nearby Wichita, police learn that the cases might be linked by the same sadistic killer.

In the late 1980s, an elusive serial killer stalks the streets of South Central Los Angeles, raping, murdering and discarding his victims; two decades later, clever police work and new technology put an end to The Grim Sleeper's reign of terror.

When a New Jersey mother is raped and murdered, her sadistic killer leaves no trace of his identity behind; months later, a violent attack in another state gives detectives the evidence they need to put her killer away for good.

When a little girl disappears from a small Washington town over a Fourth of July weekend, detectives look at suspects close to home; then her body is found two weeks later, and a tip leads investigators to a trusted friend with a terrifying past.