Nereida “Nettie” Melendez disappeared on the morning of her graduation in June of 1989 when she went to drop off a van she had borrowed for the weekend from her work. When she didn’t show for graduation, her family knew something was wrong. By the next afternoon, her older brothers, after hours of searching, discovered Nettie’s lifeless body face-down in the park. She had been strangled to death.

Bobby Fisher lost his mom, Donna Fisher, in 1986, to a brutal attack in her home on Prospect Street in Cranston, Rhode Island. There was no sign of forced entry. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Police believe that she knew her attacker. But she was alive when rescue promptly arrived. Despite attempts to save her, she passed away on her 39th birthday, 3 days later. 36 years later, the case is heating up again. Justice may yet come.

On a hot summer night in 1988, 22-year-old Jane Boroski, who was 7-months pregnant, stopped at a convenience store on her way home from a fair, when she was attacked by an unknown assailant who stabbed her 27 times and left her for dead. Miraculously, Jane survived... and so did her baby.

In the 1980’s, a serial killer was preying on women in the area surrounding the Connecticut River Valley in New Hampshire and Vermont. To this day, the identity of the killer is still unconfirmed, and remains one of New England’s most prolific unsolved cases.

On December 3rd, 1983, 21-yr-old Paula Roberts was working her part time job at a country ice cream shop near Augusta, ME, when two violent intruders kidnapped her, killed her, and dumped her body. In the years that follow, the legal drama that unfolds is spellbinding.

On December 3rd, 1983, 21-yr-old Paula Roberts was working her part time job at a country ice cream shop near Augusta, ME, when two violent intruders kidnapped her, killed her, and dumped her body. In the years that follow, the legal drama that unfolds is spellbinding.

Dorothea Burke, 62 years old, was tragically murdered in Stockton Springs in 1984. The case went cold, and laid dormant for 35 years, until finally in 2020, Kirt Damon Sr. was indicted for her murder.

Marc Karun arrested after 33 years for the murder of 11-year-old Kathleen Flynn in Norwalk, CT. DNA evidence and police work, spanning decades, proves his undoing.