On the Case with Paula Zahn
2009
📺 28 Seasons
🎬 398 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 43 min/ep
CrimeDocumentary
Award winning journalist Paula Zahn unravels shocking crimes interviewing those closest to the case including lawyers, the victim's family, detectives and the convicted murderer themselves.
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Seasons
Season 1
A seventeen year-old student is missing and a charismatic young teacher may be involved. The investigation leads to a shocking discovery.
Season 2
In 2004, a Brigham Young University student, Brooke Wilberger, mysteriously vanished from a parking lot in Corvallis, OR and the case made national headlines.
Season 3
A man is shot in his living room while his family is upstairs. Guns are scattered all over the lawn, and there's no assailant in sight, but then police get a huge break when they set up an on-camera sting that ultimately leads to a conviction.
Season 4
In the summer of 1996, 22-year-old Carrie Culberson was last seen driving away from her house. The timing of her disappearance was suspicious as she was about to testify in court against her abusive boyfriend, Vincent Doan. Did she simply run away from a troubled relationship or was her disappearance something far more sinister?
Season 5
In a small town outside Atlanta, young mother Heather Strube is gunned down in a Target parking lot in broad daylight while stunned eyewitnesses search for cover, and with her 18-month-old son just a few feet away. Police have little to go on beyond a bizarre description of the brazen killer and the surveillance video of him walking away from the crime scene. After a painstaking and difficult investigation, they come up with an incredible and surprising suspect.
Season 6
When an innocent couple is murdered execution-style in the Arizona desert, it marks the beginning of a 50-year search for the truth. After decades of investigation, the controversial case remains shrouded in mystery including a claim that an innocent man was framed by his ex-wife for both murders.
Season 7
When Jackie Casseteri fails to show up for work, her friends and family know something is terribly wrong. Her sister rushed to her apartment and stumbled upon Jackie's lifeless body lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Investigators were unable to determine the cause of death and believed that the key to solving the mystery were calls made to a telephone dating service, from Jackie's cell phone... after her death.
Season 8
A wife discovers her husband's body lying in a pool of blood in front of his truck on Valentine's night. While she pointed investigators toward a prime suspect, they uncovered a love triangle that stood between them and the truth.
Season 9
A beloved mother of four is stabbed to death in her bathroom. A mysterious V-shaped wound on her forehead finally leads police to her killer decades later.
Season 10
A cloud of smoke leads two truckers to a shocking discovery; the smoldering remains of a teenage girl.
Season 11
Steve Kendall arrives home to find his wife, Kimberly, sexually assaulted, strangled and stabbed to death in their bedroom. Detectives process the scene and come to the realization that it points to a killer who is hiding in plain sight.
Season 12
A trail of blood and broken cornstalks leads police to the body of a beautiful young girl.
Season 13
After Navy electrician Michael Jacobs comes home to find his wife, Suzanne, and his 3-year-old son, Colin, murdered, San Diego police race to catch a serial killer who leaves behind an unimaginable calling card.
Season 14
A 12-year-old girl is kidnapped, following a brutal home invasion... Can police find her and her abductor before its too late?
Season 15
After a father of four is gunned down, police investigate, discovering that nothing about the crime is what it appears to be.
Season 16
A brutal double homicide shatters two Idaho families. The murders appear to ritualistic, but remarkable police work and insight from loved ones reveals the stunning truth.
Season 17
When a young girl disappears from a quiet suburban street, it marks the beginning of a terrifying game of cat and mouse between police and her abductor.
Season 18
When a hero firefighter is found savagely murdered in his own home, the trail of evidence police find takes them on a twisting and tension filled journey to justice.
Season 19
When police find a beautiful young woman run over by her own car it marks the beginning of a terrifying murder mystery.
Season 20
A young woman travels to California in pursuit of a Hollywood dream and winds up the victim of a savage homicide.
Season 21
In February 1976, 19-year-old Michelle Mitchell vanished from a well-lit parking lot in Reno, NV; the young woman's disappearance would quickly be at the center of one of the most complex and disturbing cases in the state's history.
Season 22
A compassionate and outgoing woman's dream vacation turns into a deadly nightmare when she crosses paths with a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Season 23
A young woman is found bound and strangled to death on the side of a road. As police retrace her final steps, they discover she was last seen being followed by a suspicious man in a cowboy hat.
Season 24
A young female soldier is found slain after a night out in Colorado Springs, CO. The investigation into her torture, molestation and murder eventually goes cold. It takes decades and advances in DNA processing to finally land her killer and bring him to justice.
Season 25
Police investigating the brutal murder of a young woman start to wonder if the ambush-style shooting that ended the victim's life resulted from a terrifying case of mistaken identity.
Season 26
Blood spattered from a young woman's apartment balcony to the parking lot below could lead police to her coldly calculated murderer.
Season 27
Can police find the killer of two teenagers discovered inside a car?
Season 28
Will a heartbroken mother's quest for justice lead police to solve the murder of her daughter and a close friend?
Network
Investigation Discovery
Production
Scott Sternberg Productions, Inc., Weinberger Media
Keywords
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