72 Hours: True Crime

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.

Stuck at home and tired of the boredom, 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. And in a town where everyone seems to know everyone else - he was a stranger. Find the stranger, find the killer. But how do you find a man who's defining characteristic is that no one knows who he is?