From notorious offenders to great escapes, True Crime Stories takes you behind the headlines of some of the shocking stories that have riveted the nation with investigative reporting from People magazine’s crime team. Discover the latest on the investigation of the Golden State Killer, Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs, who escaped from the predator who abducted her from her home and murdered her parents, and the latest on Chris Watts, who confessed to murdering his wife and children so he could start a new life with his girlfriend, and more. Plus: The best of Oxygen’s popular crime shows “Cold Justice” and “The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes.”
TRUE CRIME STORIES • THE MOST-TALKED-ABOUT CASES, FROM SHOCKING TRAGEDIES TO INSPIRING TALES OF SURVIVAL. DON’T LOOK AWAY …
CHAPTER ONE OPENER • COPS KNOW TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SPOUSE, THE PARENT AND THE CLOSE FRIEND. THE TIES THAT BIND CAN LEAD TO VICIOUS CRIME
HUSBAND, FATHER, MURDERER • AFTER HE CLAIMED THAT HIS PREGNANT WIFE AND TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS HAD DISAPPEARED, CHRIS WATTS CONFESSED TO THEIR BRUTAL KILLINGS—PART OF A TWISTED PLAN TO START HIS LIFE OVER WITH A NEW GIRLFRIEND
A FAMILY DIVIDED • FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES THE VICIOUS MURDER OF BARBARA MENDEZ WENT UNSOLVED. BUT WITH HELP FROM THE OXYGEN SERIES COLD JUSTICE, HER HUSBAND WAS FINALLY CONVICTED AND HER DAUGHTERS FOUND CLOSURE
ENEMY IN THE DELIVERY ROOM • A MURDER VICTIM, HER MISSING BABY DAUGHTER—AND HER BEST FRIEND UNDER ARREST. HOW HEIDI BROUSSARD’S HAPPY FAMILY PLANS WENT HORRIBLY WRONG
CHAPTER TWO OPENER • WITH HIGH-TECH GENETIC ANALYSIS AND POPULAR ANCESTRY WEBSITES, DETECTIVES ARE UNRAVELING ONCE-UNSOLVABLE CRIMES
AN ACCUSED PREDATOR MEETS HIS MATCH • FOR FOUR DECADES HE ELUDED CAPTURE, LEAVING A TRAIL OF MURDER, RAPE AND FEAR IN HIS WAKE, UNTIL A POPULAR GENEALOGY WEBSITE LED COPS TO A SUSPECT’S DOORSTEP
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE • A DECADE AFTER SHERRY BLACK WAS FOUND BRUTALLY STABBED TO DEATH IN THE SALT LAKE CITYBOOKSTORE THAT WAS HER REFUGE, HER DAUGHTER TURNED GRIEF INTO A DEEP RESOLVE TO BRING THE KILLER TO JUSTICE
CHAPTER THREE OPENER • THE WISCONSIN TEENAGER WAITED UNTIL HER ABDUCTOR HAD STEPPED OUTSIDE TO MAKE HER BREAK FOR FREEDOM. THE KIDS IN CALIFORNIA SNEAKED OUT A WINDOW UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS
IN FROM THE COLD • THE WISCONSIN TEENAGER—WHO SURVIVED 88 DAYS OF CAPTIVITY AFTER HER PARENTS WERE MURDERED IN FRONT OF HER EYES—BROKE FREE FROM HER ABDUCTOR. INSIDE HER TERRIFYING ORDEAL
SURVIVING CHILDHOOD TORTURE • MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER THEY WERE RESCUED FROM LIVES OF STARVATION AND BEATINGS, THE CHILDREN OF CONVICTED CHILD ABUSERS DAVID AND LOUISE TURPIN MET THEIR PARENTS FACE-TO-FACE IN COURT
CHURCH ABUSE COVER-UP • SURVIVORS OF ABUSE INSIDE THE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION SPEAK UP IN AN OXYGEN DOCUMENTARY—PART OF A SEVEN-YEAR INVESTIGATION THAT THEY HOPE WILL BRING OFFENDERS TO JUSTICE
LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS • ABDUCTED, ASSAULTED AND ABUSED, SOMETIMES FOR YEARS AT A TIME, THESE COURAGEOUS YOUNG WOMEN HAVE WORKED TO HEAL AND FOUND MEANING IN LIFE
CHAPTER FOUR OPENER • A SHOCKING CRIME, A LIKELY MOTIVE, PLENTY OF PUBLICITY. AND THEN … NOTHING. ALL TOO OFTEN INVESTIGATIONS ARE SENT TO THE FILE ROOM WHEN THE CLUES RUN OUT—BUT NOT ALWAYS FOREVER
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS • SINCE 1971 THE BODIES OF DOZENS OF WOMEN HAVE BEEN FOUND ALONG A HIGHWAY SOUTH OF HOUSTON. NOW DNA HAS REVEALED THE NAMES OF TWO MORE VICTIMS—AND KINDLED HOPE OF CRACKING THE CASE
HELP US FIND THEM • FOR FAMILIES OF THE VANISHED, HOPE REMAINS LONG AFTER THE NEWS CREWS AND SEARCHERS GO HOME. BECAUSE SOMEBODY KNOWS WHERE THEIR LOVED ONES ARE
CHAPTER FIVE OPENER • THESE HEADLINE-GRABBING CRIME FIGURES RANGE FROM A PROLIFIC—AND ARTISTIC—SERIAL KILLER TO A MURDERING SHOPPING-MALL SANTA TO A HUSBAND CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS...