The Kitchen

On October 1, 1993, a stranger abducted 12-year-old Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her home. After a massive two-month investigation, the FBI arrested Richard Allen Davis.

To the FBI, he was believed to be the boss of New York’s most powerful mafia organization—the Genovese crime family. Was Gigante crazy or was his behavior a shrewd attempt to disguise his position as a ruthless mafia boss?

In 1982, a California highway patrol officer pulled a young woman over for speeding. He bullied her into sex and then killed her. He then used a decade of police experience to try to cover up his crime and convince investigators of his innocence.

The day began like any other for Cheryl and Paul Chapman, until the silence of a peaceful Sunday morning was shattered with a phone call.

In 1984, in South Florida, a rapist and murderer was on the loose. The killer was a ruthless and terrifying predator, the newest member of an infamous group known as ‘serial killers.’

The calm of a Southern Ohio's quiet community was shattered in 1989, when a sniper gunned down an outdoorsman without reason. Hiding in the distance, behind a high powered rifle, a madman was hunting humans along Ohio’s county roads.

It should have been Shangri-La, but when bad blood developed, piracy took over and the only law was the law of the jungle.

The sun set on the Wild West long ago, but some people refused to notice. Claude Dallas was one of them. A wily trapper, Dallas typified the rugged individualism that forged this country. He went too far when he killed two game wardens in 1981.

For nearly two decades a mathematical genius with delusions of single-handedly destroying industrial society, planted or mailed powerful bombs to unsuspecting innocent victims.

In 1989, residents of a close-knit apartment community in Virginia gathered for a holiday celebration. For Tammy Brannen and five-year-old daughter Melissa, Christmas was always a special time. Then…without warning, the little girl was gone.

Terrorist bombings are what happen in other countries. Not here in the United States. And yet, in 1993, it happened in New York City.

Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964. A sleepy southern town steeped in tradition finds itself targeted for invasion.