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Killer Cases Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2022 - 2022
Episode 0
The Theresa Burns Murder
Sat, Oct 1, 202260 mins
Mishawaka, Indiana: Theresa Burns was murdered in 1988. It took 28 years to find justice.
Episode 1
The Arson Murders
Sat, Oct 1, 202260 mins
Akron, Ohio 2017: Firefighters made a desperate effort to save a young family from a blazing fire, but rescuers were too late. Police declared that the fire was intentionally set, that it was not caused by an accident. An arson investigation begins, which included another unexplained fire a few blocks away that killed a beloved elderly couple. In the end, Stanley Ford was found guilty of arson and murder for the 2016 fire and deaths of neighbors Gloria Hart and Lindell Lewis. Stanley Ford was also found guilty of arson and murder for the 2017 fire and deaths of neighbors Dennis Huggins, Angela Boggs and their five children: Cameron Huggins, age 1; Alivia Huggins, age 3; Kyle Huggins, age 5; Daisia Huggins, age 6; and Jared Boggs, age 14.
Episode 2
The Mennonite Murder
Sat, Oct 8, 2022
A camper gathering firewood in Arizona's scenic Sunset Crater National Park, a remote area on the outskirts of Flagstaff, is shocked to discover the body of a young woman, Sasha Krause, age 27, in a traditional long dress. Authorities used cell phone data, financial records, and surveillance video to tie U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch to the crimes. Sasha's Mennonite family and friends are stunned. Krause and Gooch were strangers. They did not know each other but both grew up in Mennonite communities; Krause in Texas and Gooch in Wisconsin. In the end, Gooch, now age 22, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the January 18, 2020 kidnapping and murder of the Mennonite woman from Farmington, New Mexico who had been a Sunday School teacher.
Episode 3
The Exchange Student Murder
Sat, Oct 15, 2022
Young wife and mother Mengqi Ji Elledge, age 28, was a Chinese foreign exchange student at University of Missouri. She went missing in October 2019. Her husband, Joseph Elledge of Columbia, Missouri, reported her disappearance to the police. Everybody felt that it was strange that Mengqi went missing without her cell phone or her young toddler daughter. Mengqi's parents came to America from China to try to help the investigation. The police asked the public for help and searched exhaustively for Mengqi. In March 2021, her body was found. In the end, Joseph Elledge, now age 26, was brought to trial and was found guilty of killing his wife. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison, the maximum amount allowed by law.
Episode 4
Murder of the Basketball Star
Sat, Oct 22, 202260 mins
Murder in Tennessee, July 2010: Ten days after NBA player Lorenzen Wright went missing, the basketball player's body was found in a swamp, shot 11 times. Lorenzen called 911 but was only able to ask for help, and then the 911 dispatcher heard 11 gunshot sounds. The police carried out an investigation, but came up empty as to who the killer or killers were, and the case went cold. During this time, Lorenzen Wright's mother, Deborah Marion, steadfastly worked hard to keep her son's case active. The investigation 'heated up' when the Memphis police obtained help from the FBI several years after the murder. Using clues from an informant, the investigators were able to successfully arrest Lorenzen's wife, Sherra Wright (the mastermind of the crime, and the mother of their six children) and her gardener, Billy Ray Turner (the actual killer) for the murder. The suspects were found guilty and sentenced to jail.
Episode 5
Murder at the Beauty Salon
Sat, Oct 29, 202260 mins
When a hairstylist, 34 year old Joleen Cummings, failed to pick up her children for a planned celebration, she was reported missing by her ex-husband in 2018. Investigators discovered a bloody scene at the salon, but the hairstylist and her SUV were gone. In the end, Joleen's co-worker, Kimberly Kessler, was found guilty of 1st-degree murder in death of Cummings, a mother of three who worked at a Nassau County salon "Tangles" with Kessler.
Episode 6
Murder in Broward County
Sat, Nov 5, 202260 mins
Jill Halliburton Su, an heir to the Halliburton oil dynasty fortune, is discovered dead in the bathtub by her son Justin at her upscale home in a Florida gated community in 2014.
Episode 7
Murder in Palm Beach County
Sat, Nov 12, 202260 mins
Florida, June 2017: Makeva Jenkins, age 33, a successful businesswoman and mother of three, posted on Facebook that she had grown her business to six figures. Just a few years beforehand, she had been homeless. Hours after her Facebook post, she was shot dead with a bullet to the head by a masked gunman. The horrible truth is that her death was a murder-for-hire. The mastermind of the crime was her husband, Euri Durrell Jenkins. The "middle man" of the crime was Dametri Dale. The gunman of the crime was Joevan Marquise Joseph. They were all arrested and charged with the murder. Euri's entire motive to kill his wife was a failed one. When he called to inquire about collecting the proceeds on the life insurance policy that was on his wife, he found out that he was not the beneficiary on the insurance. The case was "cracked" when the "middle man" Dametri Dale came forward voluntarily to confess to the homicide investigators. The killer, Joevan Joseph, took a plea deal for 15 years in prison. The middle man, Dametri Dale, took a plea deal for 15 years of probation with no jail time. The mastermind, Euri Jenkins, pleaded "not guilty" but was found guilty by the jury at trial. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Episode 8
A Mother's Secret
Sat, Nov 19, 202260 mins
"Geauga's Child" in Geauga County, Ohio was the only name a dead newborn baby boy had during the 26 years it took to solve this gruesome cold case. The baby was found near Sidley Road in Thompson Township, Ohio on March 25, 1993. The child was partially dismembered and still had his umbilical cord attached. Authorities said the child had been placed in a trash bag and left in a wooded area but was dragged to the side of the road by animals. The case was solved with forensic genetic genealogy using DNA. In June 2019, the newborn's mother, Gail Eastwood-Ritchey of Euclid, Ohio, was arrested and charged with his murder. At that time, she told detectives that this was the second newborn child she had abandoned. In the end, now age 51, Gail Eastwood-Ritchey was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 15 years.
Episode 9
Murder on Country Road M
Sat, Nov 26, 202260 mins
Just after 8:00 AM on September 16, 2016, Todd Kendhammer calls 911 in a panic, describing a freak car accident on a rural road outside La Crosse, Wisconsin involving his wife, Barbara Kendhammer, age 46. Police are suspicious of Todd's responses in the interrogation room. Plus, forensic details from the autopsy report cast further doubt on his story. Prosecutors contend Todd Kendhammer fatally beat his wife of 25 years and tried to conceal her death by staging a car accident. Kendhammer says she died when an airborne pipe pierced his windshield and struck her in the head. In the end, Todd Kendhammer was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in 30 years.
Episode 10
Murder in a Cul-de-Sac
Sat, Dec 3, 202260 mins
August 27, 2015: On this summer night, Amanda Colley returns home to a ransacked house at 260 S. Bellagio Drive, St. Augustine, Florida. Her boyfriend Lamar Douberly and two girlfriends, Lindy Dobbins and Rachel Hendricks arrive to join her. Soon, gunshots ring out. Amanda and her friend Lindy Dobbins are found dead. After an investigation, Amanda's estranged husband, James Terry Colley Jr., is arrested. He was convicted of the murders and was sentenced to death.
Episode 11
The Jazz Musician's Murder
Sat, Dec 10, 202260 mins
Greeley, Colorado, February 2020: Jazz trumpet player Stanley Scott Sessions, age 53, fails to show up for a gig. He was a popular trumpet player for the Colorado band "The Movers and Shakers". His body is found a few days later, wrapped in plastic, partially burned and hidden in a forest. Investigators trace his last known whereabouts to the residence of his new love interest, Heather Frank. Unfortunately, there was a love triangle. In the end, Kevin Dean Eastman, age 50, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences as well as an additional 27 years after he was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Heather Frank, and the man she was dating, Scott Sessions, within a week of each other in February 2020.
Episode 12
Murder at Ohio State
Sat, Dec 17, 202260 mins
February 8, 2017, Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City, Ohio: Reagan Delaney Tokes, age 21, was a student at Ohio State University. She was abducted while leaving her job in downtown Columbus, Ohio. A caller reported the discovery of her body in a local park. Detectives worked hard to solve this case, and in the end, habitual offender Brian Golsby was arrested. Golsby had been on parole when the attack took place. He was convicted of her rape and murder in March 2018 and was sentenced to life in prison.