Unseen

“I was staring at the face of evil” -- It’s February 17th 2003, when Terry Hall calls the police to report her daughter Kristine Johnson missing, after not hearing from her for two days. When detectives talk to Kristine’s flatmate, she says her friend left for an audition in the Hollywood Hills for a big opportunity to be cast as a Bond Girl, but detectives quickly discover that the movie doesn’t actually exist. The only clue to help catch a serial predator, who has been escaping the law for more than 10 years, lies in what Kristine bought at the Century City Mall on the day of her disappearance.

External Footage From: "Dead On Arrival" (S1 E6, The Road To Hell, Investigation Discovery), "Death In The Hollywood Hills" (Dateline NBC, Justice For Kristi), "Murder In The Hollywood Hills (The Death Of Kristine Johnson, THELIPTV, Crime Time), On The Case With Paula Zahn (S3 E13, Dark Side Of a Dream, Investigation Discovery), "The Los Angeles Times", "Google Maps", "Getty Images", "Motion Array", "Audio Network".

“You and your so-called family have two weeks to move out of Florida forever or else you all die. this is no joke” -- It’s April 1989. Sherry Guin is at a Murder Mystery weekend and is playing a dangerous mind game with a killer who poisoned an entire family. Everybody plays their role but Sherry needs to stay more alert than anyone else: her name isn’t Sherry and she needs to take down the host of the party: the prime suspect of the Carr family murder.

External Footage From: "Murder She Solved: Lethal Poisoning" (OWN), "American Justice: Kill Thy Neighbor" (A&E), "Forensic Files: Bitter Potion" (Medstar Television), "Crime Stories: Mind Games" (Biography Channel).

“Somebody took Jacob” -- On October 22, 1989, 11 YO Jacob Wetterling bikes home and disappears with a gunman into the night. 9 months earlier, 12 YO Jared Scheierl gets ice cream and vanishes shortly after, but a few hours later, he makes it back home: 27 years later, he would be the key to finally solving Jacob’s disappearance, taking down one of the most terrifying men the state of Minnesota has ever seen.

External Footage From: "The Hunt with John Walsh" (S1 E8, "Justice Denied", CNN), "Moms Of Missing Kids: We'll Never Give UP" (CNN), "In The Dark" (S1 E3, The One Who Got Away, APM Reports).

“Am I going in this casket soon?” --

It’s April 2000, Kristina Beard is desperately trying to get ahold of her twin sister Jennifer. They only have 6 hours to disappear and get to safety before it’s too late, after giving police the key piece of evidence they need that will finally put an end to the escalating plot of a psychotic killer: their own mother.

External footage from: "Deadly Women: Blood for Money" (S3 E2, Discovery+), "Power, Privilege & Justice: Gold Digger" (S3 E1, True Crime Central), "Who do you believe: What the sisters saw" (Part 1-2, ABC), "Tainted Love" (ABC), "Black Widow: Celeste Beard-Johnson - Women Who Kill" (Channel 4), "Millionaire Murder" (S1 E8, On the Case with Paula Zhan), "Women Behind Bars" (S1 E9, FilmRise True Crime), "Rude Awakening: Someone They Knew" (Tamron Hall, Court TV).

“Rob the bank, or she blows up”

November 20th 2000, 7 year old Breea Renee notices something strange: “mom, there’s someone outside the window”. A day later, 3 masked men break into her house and hold them at gunpoint before strapping Breea with dynamite. Michelle is given an unimaginable mission: rob the bank, or your daughter will be blown up - she sets off to Bank of America for the dangerous heist.

“We were next on his hit list” -- On July 21st 1985 , single mom Andrea Blanchard lives in fear, hiding with her daughter Trudi. Whenever the phone rings, she knows bad news will follow: another bomb exploded, and this time, hundreds of people are severely injured. For years, cops are afraid of him and can’t stop him, but Andrea knows she’s the only one who can put an end to all the killings, because she knows what the Family Court Bomber wants: 7 year old Trudi.

External footage from: "The Family Court Murders" TV Series (ABC TV Australia), "Leonard Warwick's Timeline of Crimes" (ABC TV Australia), "Catching a Mad Man: Tracking Down Sydney's Family Court Bomber" (7 News), "Family Court Bomber Leonard Warwick Sentenced to Life in Prison" (ABC News Australia), "Ex-wife Leaves Sydney Court After Testifying at Bombings Trial" (The Courier Mail).

"Something is wrong with my daughter" --

After years of searching for her daughter Annette, Mary discovers a disturbing secret in the husband’s past – Annette isn’t the only one gone. One wife drowned, two others missing: what is this man hiding? What happened to the girls? Mary decides to lead her investigation, and find out the truth about Felix Vail.

External footage from: "The Real Story with Maria Elena Selinas: A Mother's Quest" (ID - Lucky 8), "People Magazine Investigates: Gone Girls" (Discovery - Radley Studios), "20/20: The Last One to See Them" (ABC News), "Tim Howey's Podcast: Bill Vail Interview" (Grace Church), "Mississippi Burning" (1988, Orion Pictures), "Gone: Rose's Letters" (Jerry Mitchell, Clarion-Ledger), "Houston Aerial 4K - Drone Footage" (Barf Media).

“He’s going to kill us all” -- On November 18th 1978, Gerald Park tells his 12 year old daughter Tracy to escape in the jungle, and stay hidden until it’s safe. As gunmen and helicopters close in on her, Tracy knows she needs to survive to avenge her mother’s death, and make sure Jim Jones would pay for what he did to her family, and 918 other victims. You might have heard about Jonestown, but this is the story of the little girl who lived.

External footage from: "Return to Jonestown" (CNN), "Jonestown: The life and death of people's temple" (FireLight Media Inc.), "People Magazines Investigate: Cults", "Sunday Night: Return to Jonestown" (7News Spotlight), "Escaped" (Investigation Discovery).

“I’ll stop if you stop crying” On the morning of March 4th 1980, in Stevenage England, a milkman is heading to work when he sees smoke coming out of someone’s window, and hears a child screaming. He rushes and breaks the door down, finding a crying little girl, badly burned, and waiting in the stairs: after being rescued, 4 YO Amanda Wright is now the only witness of what really set off the fire in the home that night, unveiling a murder so disturbing that the truth of the events would only come out 36 years later, and bring to justice her mom’s killer for a second time.

External footage from: The Day I Should've Died: Amanda Wright (CBS Reality, ITV), Forensics: Catching the Killer: Killed for Being Kind (Sky TV), London Live: Amanda Wright Interview (Evening Standard), The Mirror, BBC, The Daily Mail, The Comet, the Sun, ITV News, The British Newspaper Archives,

“If anything happens to me, take this to the police” On the late evening of November 29, 1992, a man opens his front door to discover two little boys shivering and covered in blood in an Atlanta suburb. 3 and a half years earlier, Sara Tokars hires a private investigator to follow her husband who she thinks is dangerous and unfaithful. The young mom discovers many dark secrets, including his criminal lifestyle, which would lead her to do anything she can to protect her sons, even if it meant dying while doing so.

External footage from: Homicide for the Holidays: Thanksgiving Terror (Oxygen), Mother's Brutal Thanksgiving Murder Witnessed by her 2 Boys (Oxygen), The Murder of Sara Tokars: Abuse of Power (Oxygen), Deadly Secrets (The FBI Files), The Wife Who Knew Too Much (A&E), Atlanta: Devil Down in Georgia (A&E), Scandal Down South: My Dirty Little Secret (Investigation Discovery), "Fred Tokars, Lawyer & Convicted Wife Killer, Dies in Prison" (Court TV), "GA V. TOKARS" (Court TV).