Season 2 · Episode 22 — The Original Night Stalker
In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA revealed the killer's secret and they linked four murders to a single DNA profile. Detectives uncovered three more crimes attributed to the man dubbed "The Original Night Stalker" before learning he had an earlier career as a serial rapist! Watch as cold case detectives compare the attacker's DNA with nearly every convicted violent offender in California.
Season 2 episodes
E1A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from one of the ship's maintenance workers who…
E2A series of brutal rapes in St. Louis goes unsolved for many years until a fluke audit of a license plate number leads police to the culpri…
E3A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and Bill Kurtis joins a group…
E4Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Grea…
E5A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman gets to the bottom…
E6A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a…
E7A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators smoke out a killer wh…
E8The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death.…
E9The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen buildi…
E10Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the…
E11A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills…
E12After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group that brings awareness to cases th…
E13Police doggedly reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence on the suspect's cigarette butts to bring h…
E14It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife. Then, a determine…
E15Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insurance money; and a p…
E16A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder. And a firearms expert supplies t…
E17Police solve an old murder case with a painstaking examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim's hands, and…
E18New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes, and a detect…
E19After a long manhunt, cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet and information supplied by a subsidiary of Mi…
E20Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the abduction and strang…
E21A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the crimes. A blow to t…
E22In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA rev…
E23A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange fetish for women's lingerie. Then, an…
E24A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.
E25A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colorado police crack a c…