The BEST episodes of Killer Cases
Every episode of Killer Cases ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Killer Cases!
"Killer Cases" brings all the emotion, drama, and suspense from chilling murder trials. It's a journey through the criminal justice process that gives viewers an inside look at real cases like never before.
#1 - Murder at Ohio State
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/2022
When Ohio State senior Reagan Tokes failed to respond to messages from her parents, they feared the worst. Their nightmare became a reality when a 911 caller reported the discovery of a female body in the local park. She had been shot execution style. Knowing a brutal killer was on the loose, detectives raced to solve the crime, gathering surveillance video and photos that tracked Reagan's last moments. Brian Golsby, a previously convicted sex offender, was arrested. Golsby confessed to abducting Tokes, admitting he forced her to withdraw money from ATM accounts, but he adamantly denied killing her, insisting an accomplice he called "TJ" committed the murder. At trial Golsby continued to maintain his innocence; but even his highly regarded defense team couldn't produce TJ.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Arson Murders
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2022
Firefighters made a desperate effort to save a young family from a blazing fire, but rescuers were too late. Police declared the fire was no accident and began an arson investigation, which included another unexplained fire a few blocks away that killed a beloved elderly couple.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#4 - Murder at The Mall
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/28/2021
For decades, the mystery of Michelle Martinko's murder haunted her town and her family as police searched for her killer without success. 39 years later, through creative detective work and modern investigative techniques, the case took a new twist, leading to an arrest and first-degree murder charges in a long awaited, dramatic trial.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Murder on the Gulf Coast
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/2021
When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered buried on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspects to investigate including her ex-husband, her new girlfriend and her best friend.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#7 - Murder on Middle Mountains
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2021
Thirteen-year-old Dylan wasn't eager to fly to Colorado for the court-ordered long-distance visit with his dad, Mark, who tried to placate his son with a visit to McDonald's and shopping at Walmart straight from the airport. But when the boy didn't show up for a playdate the next morning, he was reported missing, setting off a manhunt in the rough Colorado wilderness terrain. Mark Redwine and his ex-wife took to the airwaves to plead for their son's return, but to no avail. Then in a stunning twist in a national television interview, Dylan's brother, Cory, accused Mark of being responsible for his brother's disappearance, a charge the father vigorously denied. But, three years later when Dylan's badly decomposed remains were found by hikers, prosecutors did indeed charge Mark Redwine with his son's murder.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Murder in Palm Beach County
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2022
Makeva Jenkins seemed to have it all. A successful businesswoman and mother of three, she boasted on Facebook that she had grown her business to six figures. But just hours later, she was shot dead with a bullet to the head. Her husband, Euri Jenkins, told police a masked intruder had shot and killed his wife. Her close-knit family held a press conference, pleading for information about her killer. But the tale of the happy family fell apart when police arrested her husband in a murder-for-hire plot. Detectives also arrested 19-year-old Joevan Joseph, who told investigators Jenkins had hired him to kill his wife for the life insurance money.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - A Mother's Secret
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2022
In the spring of 1993, two newspaper carriers driving down a rural road spotted what they thought was a doll but which turned out to be, in fact, a newborn baby's body. The coroner would determine that the baby had been born alive; but his origin was a mystery. The community called the baby Geauga's Child, after the name of the county; they made clothes for his funeral and paid for his burial. Despite dozens of leads and even a hidden camera placed at the cemetery in hopes that the child's mother would show up, no arrests were made for 25 years. Then, with modern DNA and familial genealogy techniques, the cold case was solved, identifying the boy's mother as the now middle-aged Gail Eastwood-Ritchey. Years before, as a young unmarried woman, she had delivered the baby, stillborn, and placed his body in a trash bag in a wooded area. After a four-day trial, Eastwood-Richey was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Murder in Tallahassee
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/2021
When Brandi Peters and her three children were found murdered in Tallahassee in 2010, prosecutors pointed the finger at her ex-boyfriend, Henry Segura, who owed her more than $20,000 in child support. But as the trial got underway, an imprisoned drug dealer came forward, saying he had ordered the murders from prison, that Peters had worked as a drug mule and helped herself to more than $90,000 worth of drugs and cash. It sounded like an outlandish claim, but DNA evidence found in her bedroom came back as a possible match to a Colombian cocaine trafficker.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#12 - The Louisville Connection
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2024
A man is gunned down on a Louisville sidewalk during Derby week. A few weeks later, the bodies of two teenage boys are found burned and abandoned in a vacant lot. Detectives investigate a strange connection between the murders.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Murder and the Sex Cam Model
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/2021
The Amatos were a close-knit, middle-class family with three professional sons, who enjoyed Florida Gators football games together. So, it was a shock when Margaret and Chad Amato and their youngest son Cody were found dead, shot execution-style in their suburban Seminole Florida home. Suspicion quickly turned to middle son Grant, a trained nurse, who had quarreled with his family over money he had stolen from them to pay for the attention of a Bulgarian sex model on a pay-per-view website.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Murder in Broward County
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2022
An heir to the Halliburton oil dynasty fortune, Jill Halliburton Su was found by her son Justin dead in the bathtub at her upscale home in a Florida gated community in 2014. The security cameras weren't working, a glass door had been shattered, and at least one room of the house had been ransacked. Police quickly focused on Justin as the prime suspect, grilling him intensely for hours. But despite the dramatic interrogation room sessions, the son never admitted guilt. A few days later, when crime scene DNA forensic tests were finally processed, Justin was cleared; and investigators were after a new suspect.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Exchange Student Murder
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2022
An exchange student found a career and a love match in the idyllic Missouri university town of Columbia. It was a shock to their friends and family when she disappeared, leaving both her child and cell phone behind.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Last Meal
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2023
Attorney Richard Merritt, had a last home cooked meal with his mother before he was set to report to jail for embezzlement. But when Merritt didn't show up on time investigators found his mother dead in the living room. Merritt claimed an intruder had attacked them both and he had fled for his life.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Murder in a Cul-de-Sac
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/2022
In Florida in 2015, Amanda Colley was starting her life over after a contentious divorce and an ongoing custody battle with her ex-husband, James. The 36-year-old mother of two was excited about a new love interest, Lamar Douberly. Then, one summer night, she returned to a ransacked house. Lamar and two girlfriends arrived to join her as police were called. Then, gunshots rang out; glass shattered. After more shots, Amanda and her friend Lindy, a mother of three, were both dead and Rachel was injured. The gunman took off. James Colley was arrested 600 miles away and brought back to Florida to stand trial for double murder, with both Lamar and Rachel giving dramatic firsthand testimony.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Mennonite Murder
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2022
A camper gathering firewood in Arizona's scenic Sunset Crater National Park was shocked to discover the body of a young woman in a traditional long dress, wearing black dress shoes. Her Mennonite family and friends were stunned--she had no known enemies and was a beloved, studious young woman, who loved books. How did she end up dead so far from home?
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Murder in the Kentucky Hills
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2020
Shayna Hubers called 911 to report she had killed her boyfriend in self-defense after he attacked her. However, investigators soon learned he was planning a date with another woman and suspected Shayna killed him in a jealous rage.
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