The episode examines the case of Jane Carver, a flight attendant who died while jogging yards away from her home in the picturesque community of Fountain Valley. With no evidence and minimal information from witnesses, the shooting goes unsolved for a year until police linked a similar shooting in Huntington Beach that led to the true motive behind the murder. This tragic case of mistaken identity shocked the affluent community as one wrong turn led to a brutal murder.
The Sachs family seems to be living the OC life in their hilltop mansion when their family is suddenly torn apart by a vicious shooting in the middle of the night.
The Hawks live the OC dream on their luxurious yacht until their disappearance sparks a frantic search. The investigation turns as details of the alleged yacht sale point toward someone going to great depths to take their own piece of this dream.
The larger-than-life owner of a strip club empire is mowed down with a machine gun before the gates of his Orange County estate. The secrecy surrounding the clubs and their employees makes the case extremely challenging for investigators.
Keeping up appearances is key in the OC, but when the Stahls are found shot to death on the side of the Ortega Highway, the façade turns deadly. The case leads detectives down a dark path through a series of scandalous and twisted love triangles.
The brutal murder of three members of a family in an old monied Fullerton enclave reverberates throughout the neighborhood and the rest of Orange County. The investigation reveals the family’s dark secrets and a tragically OC motive.
After a fire breaks out at a hill-top mansion, OC detectives discover two bodies riddled with bullets. Police must investigate the affluent and seedier side of the victim’s past to discover who would take these measures to erase their existence.
A rising star financial whiz is brutally murdered in his seaside Huntington Beach home where the only witness, his wife Dixie, was also assaulted. After years of determined and methodical investigation, the shocking true killer is revealed.
The brutal double-murder of two beloved pianists rocks a tranquil Irvine neighborhood; after weeks of twists and turns, the hunt for the killer leads detectives to the strangest of suspects.
After battling a mysterious illness for years, a popular school board official collapses in her Dana Point driveway. But when the coroner reclassifies her death as a homicide, investigators must unravel the cause behind her baffling demise.
A jet setting billionaire finds himself at the center of a murder investigation in Mission Viejo. But what detectives uncover shocks everyone – including the tycoon in the middle of it all.
When a wealthy Buena Park entrepreneur is violently executed and his girlfriend raped, investigators are faced with a mystery that spans decades. Detectives ultimately uncover a web of murder, mayhem, and mobsters.
Three people are brutally gunned down in a gold coin shop in swanky Newport Beach. With little to go on, detectives slowly piece together a murder plot that didn’t exactly turn out as planned.
The promising trajectory of a young man from Orange is cut tragically short when he is found shot to death on a desolate road. Investigators must figure out who wanted this rising star athlete dead – and why.
When a cherished Laguna Niguel resident is beaten to death in her home, detectives must peel back the layers of her life to get to the bottom of the murder mystery. Police soon discover a wolf in sheep’s clothing just around the corner.
The disappearance of a woman sends her neighbors and loved ones into a tailspin, but the search for answers leads investigators through three states with a dramatic conclusion no one saw coming.
When a young couple is brutally attacked in an upscale Placentia neighborhood, detectives turn to those who knew them best for answers.
After a local Santa Ana jewelry salesman goes missing and is presumed dead, his heartbroken family wants answers. As investigators dig deep, they uncover unusual suspects and an even more unusual motive.
After a beloved party planner at an iconic Laguna Beach hotel is found murdered at home, investigators use high-tech tools and old-fashioned shoe leather to capture two killers and restore calm to the tight-knit beachside community.
When two loyal employees at a family-owned mobile home business are gunned down at work, detectives are left with no hints towards a motive. A hunt for a missing car, however, finally reveals a killer driven by old-school Orange County intentions.
When a hockey player and a single mum are found dead in an upscale Newport Beach, Calif., condo, loved ones have no idea how they knew each other; the discovery of a link to another area attack launches the race to catch a killer.
A young woman tells her mum she's going out for a night with friends and never returns home in a puzzling case that went cold for nine heartbreaking years until a shocking confession breaks the case wide open and exposes the brutal missing piece.
When a wealthy churchgoing woman is found murdered in her bedroom just a week before Christmas, investigators initially believe this is a robbery gone wrong; the painstaking investigation, however, uncovers a killer much closer to home.
Investigators working on the cold case murder of a beloved Orange County millionaire uncover a box of old tape recordings that reveal long-buried secrets, leading them on a path to finally nail the killer.
When an ambitious college student is stabbed to death after a campus concert, the brutality of the attack leads police to believe it must have been personal; the resolution nine years later, however, proves darker than anyone could have imagined.
The vicious murder of an immigrant family's oldest son sends shockwaves through Orange County's tight-knit Vietnamese community and leads detectives on a multi-state chase that ultimately captures two killers.
A young mother is killed in her own bed in what seems to be a sudden crime of rage, but the true killer is shockingly revealed years later to be a twisted master of manipulation.
When a retired Marine captain is shot to death in his home, detectives quickly focus in on someone close to him. The apartment complex where the murder took place hold many secrets, which ultimately lead investigators to the real killers.