Wild Crime

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Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story producers Pat Rogers and Conor McCarthy take a deeper look at the killing of 16-year-old Cassie Stoddart. On a Friday, she went to her aunt’s house to dogsit. Sunday, she was found dead, stabbed 30 times. A murder plot too shocking to believe, except it was all recorded. With exclusive access, and never-before-seen interviews, Pat and Conor take an unprecedented deep dive into the search for Cassie's killer as teenage insecurities and horror movies contort into something terrible.

When high school student Cassie Stoddart is found stabbed to death in a house on the outskirts of Pocatello, Idaho, the community is gripped by fear that a random killer is on the loose. Police retrace Cassie's final hours and focus on three classmates that were the last people to see her alive. As the investigation narrows, detectives uncover a shocking buried video tape that reframes the case, raising the unthinkable question of whether 16-year-olds could have committed such a brutal crime.

Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.