Sex, jealously and obsession fuel a national media fixation on Jodi Arias, who in 2008 savagely murdered her ex-boyfriend, 30 year-old motivational speaker Travis Alexander.

The 2002 disappearance of 27 year-old, pregnant Laci Peterson ignites a national media firestorm when her handsome young husband, Scott, becomes the prime suspect.

The 1989 slaughter of Hollywood media mogul Jose Menendez and his wife becomes a national media event when the couple's two privileged young sons confess to the murder.

A Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant bathes in the media limelight after he becomes a suspect in the drowning murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Cales Peterson, in 2007.

The horrific crimes of charismatic law student Ted Bundy - who killed at least 36 young women - grip the nation in the 1970s and give birth to the term "serial killer."

A profile of Joran van der Sloot, the last person to see Natalee Holloway before her disappearance in 2005 Aruba. Five years later, he was arrested for the murder of a young woman in Peru and is now serving a 28-year prison term.