Homicide: Hours to Kill: Season 3

To Know Her was to Love Her

49min - When Sharron Erickson—a loveable 66-year-old busybody—is sexually assaulted and strangled in her own garage, the violent murder puts a tiny Nebraska farming community under the microscope.

A Mother’s Secret Life

49min - A devoted Colorado soccer mom disappears without a trace and detectives suspect foul play. At first, the prime suspects include her two ex-husbands. But when it turns out she was moonlighting as an escort the list of suspects mushrooms.

Web of Lies

49min - While investigating the execution-style slaying of a retired Colorado mortgage broker, detectives put his nearest and dearest under the microscope. And as the noose tightens around the culprit, a sordid tale of greed and destruction emerges.

Death of an Insurance Man

49min - The owner of a struggling one-man insurance business, Bob Eidman is shot dead in his small-town Missouri office. And detectives soon uncover evidence of a double life, surveillance footage of a suspicious vehicle, and a long list of high-risk clients.

Fatal Addiction

49min - A wealthy couple with no enemies is violently murdered in their Missouri home. And the key to catching the killer lies in retracing a missing jar of rare coins and finding a match for DNA recovered from a latex glove.

House of Horror

49min - In a violent home invasion, a 16-year-old Idaho girl is stabbed multiple times. As investigators turn their attention to the victim’s friends, they uncover a chilling videotaped confession and a macabre plot pulled straight from a horror movie.

Who’s Behind the Trigger

49min - In northern New York, a young couple is gunned down in broad daylight—right in front of their toddler. After a futile manhunt, detectives piece together a web of clues that includes a nasty custody battle and a rental car full of assault weapons.

Who’s There

49min - In a Texas college town, 20-year-old freshman Jenna Verhaalen is brutally strangled to death in her off-campus apartment. And amid signs of a violent struggle, it’s a lockbox and DNA from the crime scene that ultimately lead detectives to her killer.

Almost a Perfect Murder

49min - In a mysterious homicide-by-poison, New York detectives receive two anonymous letters that point the finger at the victim’s son. But as they dig deeper, they uncover a twisted motive and a nearly perfect crime.

Death Trap

49min - When the body of a cab driver is discovered in the trunk of his car, Oklahoma detectives are soon convinced they’ve cracked the case. But it will take more investiagting to determine who lured Rafael Hernandez to his death.

Dark Side of the Deal

49min - Firefighters discover the badly burned body of a successful real estate developer in a dumpster. As Brooklyn detectives dig deeper, they uncover grainy surveillance footage of the victim’s abduction, a mountain of debt, and a hidden cellphone.

Dangerous Liasion

49min - With his throat slashed, the nearly naked body of 23-year-old Jesse Valencia is discovered in a Missouri college town. Detectives eventually receive an anonymous tip that leads to a twisted pillar willing to do anything to cover his tracks.

If the Glove Fits

49min - A promising student at the prestigious Art Institute of Dallas, 20-year-old Shelley Nance is brutally stabbed to death in her bedroom. And Texas investigators soon zero in on a trio of unusual suspects.

Tug of War

49min - A devoted single mom with no enemies, 36-year-old Missy Atkins is assassinated in the bedroom of her Tennessee home. And though a tip from a neighbor helps pin down the timeline, many clues are needed before investigators can close in on the killer.

Murder on the Jordan River

48min - When the battered body of 15-year-old Annie Kasprzak is found floating in a river outside Salt Lake City, investigators zero in on a local drug dealer and the victim’s mysterious boyfriend. That is, until a freshman killer’s alibi begins to fall apart.

Data Doesn’t Lie

48min - While her nine-month old daughter is sleeping, nursing student and single mother Danielle Marshall is shot dead in her kitchen. And with no signs of a struggle, the execution-style killing indicates the 23-year-old victim knew her attacker.

The Freshman

49min - High school freshman Tina Faelz is brutally stabbed to death at the side of a California freeway. But it will take a quarter century—and the discovery of a single bloodstain—before detectives can close in on an overlooked suspect hiding in plain sight.

One Bloody Fingerprint

49min - In the vicious rape and murder of 22-year-old psychology student Heather Maples, Tennessee investigators first hone in on her boyfriend—a registered sex offender. But when all their initial suspects are eliminated, forensic evidence points the way.

The Beneficiary

51min - Beloved grandparents Dennis and Merna Koulas are gunned down in their affluent Wisconsin home. As investigators close in on an opportunistic killer, the clues include lucrative life insurance policies, and a crime scene staged to look like a burglary.

The Mystery Passenger

The Mystery Passenger

48min - The bodies of Ed and Minnie Maurin—a prominent couple in their 80s—are found on a logging road near their home. But it will take more than 25 years before police can close in on the perpetrators of the execution-style double homicide.

Do-Si-Death

48min - The shining star of her square dance club, wealthy 59-year-old widow Patti Wheelington is gunned down on the porch of her Arkansas home. And detectives soon uncover a secret affair, a missing lover, and a powerful motive for murder.

Episode 22

Could a radical religious cult be behind the murders of two funeral workers in a small town in Wisconsin? Spurred on by an FBI tip, a rookie detective investigates.

Serial Killer Svengali

48min - With three grizzly murders in less than two weeks, detectives in Austin, Texas, are convinced there’s a serial killer on the loose.

Episode 23

South Carolina detectives are stumped by the sniper-style shooting of a successful 33-year-old restaurant owner. But as they dig deeper, it becomes clear that plenty of people had a motive to kill.

If I Killed Lisa

48min - A successful and vibrant computer programmer in the 1990s, 36-year-old Lisa Valdez is stabbed dozens of times in her San Francisco condo.

Five Million Reasons for Murder

48min - In Texas, a beloved grandmother with a five-million-dollar life insurance policy is worth more dead than alive.

Episode 25

In what appears to be a robbery gone wrong, a financial advisor is found dead in the back of her car. But a $30,000 diamond ring is still on her finger. Did the culprit try to stage the scene?

A Clock in for Murder

49min - When one of its employees is bludgeoned to death, a giant pharmaceutical conglomerate in Kentucky becomes the site of a real-life murder mystery.

A Murder in Marietta

49min - After 31-year-old Mitchell Jones is savagely stabbed in his Atlanta home, detectives turn to geo-fencing technology to unravel a crime of passion with a dark heart.