Hometown Homicide

In August 2000, 17-year-old Jessica Carpenter is found murdered in her Aiken, S.C., home by her mother; local reporters and family members tell the story of a town frozen in terror as police search for a possible serial killer on the loose.

When 15-year-old high school freshman Danielle Locklear, of Hope Mills, N.C., went missing in March 2014, her family and friends think a killer is in their midst, then a body is found in a creek near South River, weighed down with concrete blocks.

When 44-year-old high school teacher, Theresa Lockhart, of Portage, Mich., went missing in May 2017, her vehicle is discovered with nothing inside and as police begin the investigation as a possible homicide, with her husband as a person of interest.

In August 1992, millionaire Tennessee landowner Allen Roberts arrives home to discover his wife is missing; he tells police he received a ransom call for Doe's safe return; slowly, the town turns on Allen, until police take note of one odd neighbor.

Debora Gail Moody vanishes into thin air from her home in Ludowici Ga.; a decade passes in her case with no answers; her family persists by posting billboards all around town; 11 years later, a confession reveals the chilling details.

Businesspeople John and Liz Calvert vanish in 2008 from Hilton Head, S.C.; friends, investigators and local reporters are shocked and in disbelief that a couple could disappear without a trace in such a peaceful place.