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- How to Solve a Murder is a true-crime series that shows how real investigators find, pursue and capture killers. The series follows the solving of deadly crimes, step by step, from the moment a crime is reported. Real law enforcement professionals recount every detail of the investigation: clues found at the crime scene, forensic evidence, details about victims and perpetrators, the pursuit and capture of the accused and the prosecution of the convicted. The series follows the committed and relentless detectives, the federal agents and the prosecutors that work to uphold the rule of law. Each episode of How to Solve a Murder features two complete stories of deadly crime and the investigators that bring perpetrators to justice.
- 1987. Just hours before her divorce hearing, Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton opens her front door for a flower delivery. The deliveryman, a small time hood named Tony Harwood, hands her a box of roses and then shoots her dead. Detective Welcome Harris - and most of Atlanta's elite - suspect Lita's estranged husband, millionaire Jim Sullivan, of orchestrating the murder. After a 19 year investigation, one guilty hit-man's confession and an international manhunt, Sullivan is finally found guilty of her contract killing.
- It's just another meeting for Los Angeles real estate developer Meyer Muscatel. Unfortunately Muscatel meets with Iouri Mikhel, a Russian immigrant with murderous intent. A week later, Muscatel's body is found floating in a northern California lake. Mikhel masterminds a kidnap-for-ransom scheme, and he and his crew kill and dump four more victims. With a storyline that includes a bank account in Abu Dhabi and a mysterious Moscow middleman, the case is solved by FBI agents Louis Perez and Jim Davidson and prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Robert Dugdale. Mikhel and his co-conspirator Jurijus Kadamovas are convicted of five cold-blooded, ruthless murders and, in 2007, are sentenced to death.
- 1978. Nancy, David and Susan Spangler are found shot to death in their home - the brutal slaughter is deemed a murder suicide. Over the next fifteen years, two more Spangler spouses, Sharon and Donna die in similarly suspicious circumstances. After an exhaustive investigation by numerous agencies, authorities finally get a confession from psychopath Robert Spangler as he reveals his role as a serial spousal killer.
- On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk goes to a party at the Craigflower Bridge, near Victoria, Canada. It is there where her 'friends' swarm, burn and beat her down. When she walks away, Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski follow her, beat her again and drown her. They are arrested a week later by Saanich Police. The unfolding coverage shocks the country due to the senseless violence of the young crowd. Almost ten years later, Kelly Ellard was convicted of second-degree murder, ending one of the most tragic chapters in Canadian history.
- 1951. After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang. Dryman's verdict attracts considerable attention and the public outcry results in Dryman's penalty being reduced to life behind bars. After serving 18 years Dryman is paroled but disappears in 1971. In 2009, discovering that Dryman is alive and still at large, victim Clarence Pellett's grandson Clem finally sees justice done.
- 1995. The brutally beaten body of First Nations sex trade worker Pamela George is discovered on a cold spring morning just outside Regina, Saskatchewan. Initial investigators focus on men known as 'bad tricks', but three weeks later, new information changes the direction of the investigation. Popular university students Steven Kummerfield and Alexander Ternowetsky, white boys from successful families, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ms. George. They are ultimately convicted of manslaughter in a sensational case that divides the public along racial lines.
- In 1996, nurses and patients at the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Northampton grow concerned. It seems that wherever nurse Kristen Gilbert goes, death follows. After several patients experience inexplicable heart attacks, law enforcement begins to investigate. During the investigation, a bomb threat is received - a threat investigators link to Gilbert. Gilbert is sentenced to 15 months in jail, time investigators use to gather evidence. Despite more than forty suspicious deaths when Gilbert is on the ward, she is convicted of 3 counts of first-degree murder. In 1998 Gilbert is sentenced to life in prison.
