On the Case with Paula Zahn — Season 2

Aired 18 April 2010 • 43 min

In 2004, a Brigham Young University student, Brooke Wilberger, mysteriously vanished from a parking lot in Corvallis, OR and the case made national headlines.

Aired 25 April 2010 • 43 min

Bobie and Marilyn Blewer sold funnel cakes from their stagecoach wagon for decades at the Iowa State Fair, held in Des Moines every August. When the couple is found murdered on the fairgrounds, it becomes the first homicide ever in the 150-year history of the Iowa State Fair. Police unravel a shocking plot that leads to back to the unlikeliest killers.

Aired 2 May 2010 • 43 min

When a prestigious and popular Huntsville Alabama doctor is found murdered in his own home, the investigation points to a local handyman who says the doctor's wife and her twin sister are the masterminds behind the murder.

Aired 9 May 2010 • 43 min

College student Mark Fisher went out in Manhattan with friends one night and ended up shot to death outside a house party in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The puzzle of what happened to Fisher left investigators at a loss when fellow partiers put up a wall of silence.

Aired 16 May 2010 • 43 min

The murder of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless sent shock waves through Benton, MO. As the investigation unfolded, police zeroed in on 17-year-old Josh Kezer who has gang ties. Was he the one who pulled the trigger?

Aired 23 May 2010 • 43 min

After an alleged jailhouse confession, questionable canine scene evidence and sexual misconduct between the star witness and lead investigator, William Dillon was convicted of murdering James Dvorak in Canova Beach, FL, in 1981 and sentenced to life without Parole. But is any of it true? Did investigators convict the wrong man?

Aired 30 May 2010 • 43 min

A college student goes missing from the parking lot of Montgomery College in Texas. Her parents organized teams to search for her. Will they find her alive, or will the mysterious man she was last seen with be found responsible for her disappearance?

Aired 6 June 2010 • 43 min

Betty Mottinger, a postmaster in Elgin, Ohio, is abducted in broad daylight. When her body is discovered 6 weeks later it sets off a cat and mouse game between a career criminal and a postal inspector that may lead to the identity of Betty’s killer.

Aired 13 June 2010 • 43 min

Police find a 22-year-old man shot to death in a deserted parking lot. Investigators uncover a possible motive for the murder. It appeared the victim, his middle-aged co-worker and a teenaged girl were involved in an internet love triangle.

Aired 20 June 2010 • 43 min

When a wealthy, beautiful young girl is found burnt alive in a dilapidated basement her friends and family are devastated. But out of the ashes, her loving and grief stricken father embarks on a relentless, exhausting search for the truth.

Aired 27 June 2010 • 43 min

We enter the mind of a cruel and sadistic predator whose acts of wanton violence - and subsequent arrest - are the beginning of a twisted tale of one man's madness and one woman's quest for the truth.

Aired 11 July 2010 • 43 min

A bitter divorce pits a husband-and-wife team of FBI agents against each other and casts one into the arms of a world-famous crime novelist. What unfolds is a shocking, twisted tale stranger than any fiction.

Aired 18 July 2010 • 43 min

Danny Paquette is gunned down on the first day of hunting season. Is it a tragic accident or does someone want him dead? A story of dark family secrets and a twenty year search for the truth in a small New Hampshire town.