First, Carmina Salcido (a former American Idol hopeful) helps tell her harrowing story involving her murderous father and his violent, homicidal rampage that left her family and others dead. After nearly being killed as a young child, she was adopted by an ultra-conservative family who kept her in the cultural dark for most of her childhood..Later, people who own crocodiles and alligators as pets are profiled.
A wealthy family man is suspected of killing his wife during her recovery from plastic surgery. Two of his own daughters soon take it upon themselves to investigate their mother's death and their father's possible responsibility. They uncover damning evidence, including a hidden affair, missing medications, and a string of false records. However, police are not initially concerned with anything but closing the case.
The murder of a woman on Mother's Day rocks a small town to its core, and the many suspects and total lack of an arrest only adds to the local hysteria. After more than a year and a half, local police continue to investigate, but still offer no answers.Later, monkeys who partake in alcoholic beverages in the Caribbean are profiled.
A young girl drowns in her backyard pool, and her young step brother blames his mother after police rule it an accident. However, the mother contends that her son was coached and his inconsistent testimony of the events surrounding the drowning cannot be trusted. She is eventually convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in less than two hours, though she continues to appeal her case.