Sara Kettler

When a North Carolina woman's body was discovered in a pool of blood at the foot of stairs in her home, her husband, Michael Peterson, became the prime suspect in her murder. But what really happened to her has been the subject of debate.

In 2020, Shirley Ann Soosay, a member of the Cree Nation, was one of the first Indigenous people to be identified using investigative genealogy. Prior to that, Soosay, who was murdered in California in July 1980, was referred to as Jane Doe Kern County.

From the 1984 Victims of Crime Act to Marsy's Law, A&E True Crime explores the rights victims of violent crimes have within the United States, and how these laws can vary by location.

The ex-police sergeant was convicted of killing his third wife and is currently in prison, but hasn't been charged in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife.

Hired in 1921, James E. Amos was the first Black agent to work publicly for the FBI and worked high-profile cases involving murder, organized crime, Nazi spies and more during his 30-plus years of service.

The 1980s McMartin Preschool case was, and currently remains, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history. Seven teachers at the school were accused of abusing hundreds of students, sometimes as part of Satanic rituals.

In 2017, the investigation of a missing 20-year-old Indigenous woman from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana stalled, which resulted in it remaining unsolved today.

On July 29, 1994, 7-year-old Megan Kanka was killed by Jesse Timmendequas, a convicted sex offender who lived across the street.