True Crime Xtra Today

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One year after Rachael DelTondo was gunned down outside of her home a city in Pennsylvania, there are plenty of theories, but no arrests

Peter Van Sant investigates the death of a decorated Marine colonel in Iraq and his wife's decade-long quest to get it labelled as a homicide

Three Indiana construction workers are found executed - shot in broad daylight on a work-site. Detectives can find few suspects but have one key clue

A Texas ex-con resolves to live a clean life after his release from prison. When he is arrested for a bloody murder, then convicted, he insists he is innocent

An California career woman keeps falling ill and doctors cannot determine why. When she dies they still have no explanation, until they find a key figure in her life

A 24-year old criminology student is found murdered, handcuffed, gagged and wrapped in a blanket alongside a desolate road in East New York

When a woman is found shot to death in her own home, investigators initially suspect her long-time husband and a violent neighbour with a penchant for threats

A young single mother is abducted from a petrol station and later found stabbed to death near an oil field. Detectives use shoe impressions to weed out numerous suspects

Jim Axelrod reports a story of tragedy and triumph, the murder of a young woman, and how her killer's heart saves the life of a dying woman

A chance to hear for the first time from the woman at the centre of a case prosecutors said was all about sex, lies, money and murder

A Marine is found dead, and doctors initially believe a heart attack is to blame, but when arsenic is found in some of his organs, prosecutors charge his wife with murder

When an 18-year-old girl is abducted while talking on a pay phone, forensic evidence found on her clothing points police in the direction of a suspect

A Los Angeles-based kidnapping, ransom and murder ring run by Russian immigrants is exposed when a pair of retired scientists use sonar equipment to locate its victims

A bizarre case in which a woman was shot dead. Investigators initially suspected her husband of the crime, but forensic evidence gave the story a surreal twist

A 70-year-old retired veteran is found dead on his boat after a bad sea storm. Investigators later discover he was killed during an attempted robbery

A Texas love triangle turns deadly, and a man's second wife is charged with the murder of his first.

A trip to the NBA All-Star game in Vegas ends with unwed parents fighting over a rental car and their child's expenses.

The shooting and killing of a family's pet beagle due to alleged trespassing is disputed by feuding neighbours.

A father and daughter fight over custody of a 2000 Grand Prix, alleged vandalism and impound fees.

A man sues his neighbour for damaging his car when he moved it without permission; his neighbour says the car was on his property illegally.

A married couple claims a friend wrote them a bad check for the value of a truck they sold to him.

A man denies throwing his children and their mother out on the street; she sues for the property she was unable to take with her.

A woman claims the father of her grandchildren owes for a series of loans; he says she is only suing because he and her daughter are no longer a couple.

A man denies allegations that he promised to split the cost of day-care with the mother of his son.

A woman takes in her brother's girlfriend and is forced to call the police to try and get them out; they sue her for loss of business

A woman accuses her former kickball league manager of misappropriating league dues

When a young man allegedly damages the apartment his mother helped him move into, she sues him for repair costs, rent and car repairs

Siblings take out an insurance policy on their ailing father; when the claim doesn't pay out after his death, they fight over funeral costs

A man claims his ex-mother-in-law to be insisted that he reverse his vasectomy so she could have grandchildren; she demands payback for the surgery

A DUI, an altercation with police and a prison sentence come into play when parents sue their disabled son for totalling their car when he drove it drunk

A trip to the NBA All-Star game in Vegas ends with unwed parents fighting over a rental car and their child's expenses.

The shooting and killing of a family's pet beagle due to alleged trespassing is disputed by feuding neighbours.

A father and daughter fight over custody of a 2000 Grand Prix, alleged vandalism and impound fees.

A man sues his neighbour for damaging his car when he moved it without permission; his neighbour says the car was on his property illegally.

A married couple claims a friend wrote them a bad check for the value of a truck they sold to him.

A man denies throwing his children and their mother out on the street; she sues for the property she was unable to take with her.

A woman claims the father of her grandchildren owes for a series of loans; he says she is only suing because he and her daughter are no longer a couple.

A man denies allegations that he promised to split the cost of day-care with the mother of his son.

A woman takes in her brother's girlfriend and is forced to call the police to try and get them out; they sue her for loss of business

A Marine is found dead, and doctors initially believe a heart attack is to blame, but when arsenic is found in some of his organs, prosecutors charge his wife with murder

When an 18-year-old girl is abducted while talking on a pay phone, forensic evidence found on her clothing points police in the direction of a suspect

A Los Angeles-based kidnapping, ransom and murder ring run by Russian immigrants is exposed when a pair of retired scientists use sonar equipment to locate its victims