Season 1 · Episode 4 — The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
Answer in the Box Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner, So much so that she had the local media interested in her, So when she got a call from a photographer to take some pictures of her running she didn't think anything wrong with it. She left to go to her photo session and wasn't seen alive again. The police had a fellow runner as the lead suspect but nothing ever happened with that lead. A cold case detective named Vic Matanovic was going through some files 10 years later and came across the case. When the detective was looking for clues to solve the case the Answer is in the Box. Usually DNA is enough to prove a case but in this case the criminal who lured Alison to her death had a plan to lure the jury to believe in the lie he was about to tell. Maternal Instinct 1981 a brother and sister fell victim to a heartless mother with no regard for life. 3 month old Seth Davis was rushed to the hospital because of insulin poisoning. He was left brain damaged. 5 months later his sister, Tenga Davis, is rushed to the hospital. There she dies of Caffeine poisoning. Even though the autopsy that was turned in by the M.E. stated cause of death was a homicide, the police treated this as an accident. Their mother Mary Beth Davis moves on with her own life by moving to a different state. She starts a new family and forgets all about what happened back in her past. That is until 10 years later when Mary Beth gets a knock on her door by the cold case detectives which brings back her past as the detectives are there to prove a case of murder.
Season 1 episodes
E1In the first case in this episode Felicia Prechtl is found raped and murdered in Dallas, Texas/ The only thing the killer left behind was a…
E2The Boy and the Monster In Wisconsin in the winter of 1991 a young woman's body was found naked, badly beaten and to make it harder to iden…
E3Texas Drifter Two women in two separate towns in Texas who where raped. The rapist uses a knife to threaten these women then rapes them and…
E4Answer in the Box Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner, So much so that she had the local media…
E5DNA tests identify a skull of a 14-year-old boy who went missing 6 years earlier. When a second skull is found, investigators fear they hav…
E6In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaughter, and the skeleton of a Michigan bo…
E7Alligators feasting on a human corpse help police to crack a murder investigation. Phoenix police discover that a preacher is the culprit i…
E8A man in Florida is reported missing and his roommate is the main suspect. Then, at first it looks like L.A.P.D. Sgt. George Arthur died in…
E9Shoot outside her bedroom, Eva Shoen was shot to death. Living in Telluride, on the mountain side. Eva was married to the son of the billio…
E10Every 2 years, a group of fire investigators meet for a conference. While attending the conference in 1987 in Fresno, California, 3 suspici…
E11In the beautiful byways of West Palm Beach, along the canals a woman was fond dead in the canal. After some research they found that the wo…
E12Nine years after police had to release the teenage suspect in a woman's murder due to lack of evidence, they find a new lead in the case. T…
E13A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim is determined to fight back. Fifteen…
E14In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, a…
E15A serial killer of four women, Faryion Wardrip, is brought to justice in Wichita Falls, Texas after a DNA sample is found on a coffee cup.
E16One will take 10 years and one will take 17 years to solve but they do get solved. Dedication, science, luck, and even hypnosis is used to…
E17Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a 6-year-old cas…
E18The accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after the killing. And a teenager who likes…
E19The story of serial killer James Rodney Hicks, who left a trail of bodies and kept police, prosecutors, and the FBI quite busy working on h…
E20When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police arrive to discover the badly burned and…
E21The murder of scientist Helena Greenwood, who was helping to develop DNA forensic technology when she died, is solved 12 years later with t…
E22Using a hair dryer to thaw a frozen corpse, detectives get to the bottom of a grisly murder. And the discovery of a child's skeleton in a C…
E23Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a New Jersey policeman. And members of the Vido…
E24A sunset boat ride in Florida leads to death for a vacationing woman and her two daughters, and police investigate a Texas man whose three…
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