City Confidential - Season 12

Oil City, PA is a small town with a big history. Once a crucial center for America's steel and petroleum industry, it's now a shadow of its former self. While life for the 10,000 residents can be tough, it's a simple place where bad things rarely happen and people watch out for one another. In 1992, when an 11-year old girl goes missing on her way home from a Halloween party, it shocks the close-knit community. When it becomes clear a terrible crime has been committed, suddenly the trusting town realizes that monsters exist. For years, police search for clues to try to unmask the evil they're certain lives among them in order to bring justice to the victim and closure for her family.

Just 30 miles outside of Akron, one of Ohio's largest cities, sits Apple Creek, an Amish Country village that's a throwback to another time. Over the past two centuries, not much has changed. Modern conveniences such as appliances, cell phones, cars and computers are forbidden. They're devoted to God, family and one another. So when a young mother of five is found shot to death in her home, people are shocked. An investigation is launched, and soon, a community that has worked to avoid prying outsiders finds itself at the center of a murder case--only the second in its 250-year history.

Three employees are gunned down inside one of Washington D.C.'s favorite brunch spots. Residents are gripped with fear as detectives hunt for the shooter, only to find a group of greedy assassins with a personal vendetta.

Terror sweeps through an upscale Houston, Texas shopping district when a shooter attacks women without warning. A lucky break leads police to a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to unleash a deep-seeded hatred.

Students fear for their lives in the fall of 2000 when Washington D.C.'s Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf, becomes a killer's hunting ground. Detectives sift through the twisted mystery and learn not everyone on campus is who they seem to be.

New York City, known for its diversity and acceptance, becomes the focus for a sadistic serial killer targeting the gay community. It takes dogged determination and new technology to bring a monster's reign of terror to an end.

The murder of a vibrant 21-year-old leaves the peaceful community of Knoxville, Tennessee questioning its core values. But a family's persistence reminds Marble City what it's made of and residents band together to bring a killer down.

Burlington, North Carolina--a town built on family, God, and Southern hospitality is shaken to its core when a local Sunday school teacher is brutally murdered. Soon the community learns that even the most upstanding families can have dark secrets.