Nydia Lopez-Garcia, a 37-year-old single mother from Mesquite, Texas, had traveled to Las Vegas and was murdered in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip. The children - aged 17, 14, and 7 - were with their mother in Las Vegas and now find themselves stuck there, without any family or means to return home.

In 1974, 17-year-old cheerleader Carla Walker went missing after a Valentine's Day dance in Fort Worth. Her body was found a few days later, in a ditch, strangled, beaten, and sexually assaulted. The case went unsolved for 46 years until DNA evidence was finally able to match a longtime suspect.

Crystal McDowell (born October 26, 1979) went missing on August 25, 2017, while Hurricane Harvey was wreaking havoc in Houston, causing historic flooding. Crystal was missing for two weeks when her ex-husband finally confessed to strangling her to death.

Darlie Routier (born January 4, 1970) called 911 after an intruder attacked her and her children on June 6, 1996. Her sons had been stabbed to death and Darlie sustained a critical knife wound to the throat. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Darlie’s injuries were self-inflicted and the crime scene had been staged. She was sentenced to death for their murders and has maintained her innocence with the support of her husband, Darin.

Candy Montgomery killed her friend Betty Gore with an ax on June 13, 1980. 41 times she chopped at her body. But a jury accepted her self-defense plea and acquitted her of murder charges. How can you swing an ax 41 times and call it self-defense?

Sarah Walker was a local Texas realtor found bludgeoned, bitten on the neck, and stabbed 33 times in a D.R. Horton model home in McKinney. Her killer is still on death row after 15 years.