The stories are hard to imagine, the evidence is difficult to ignore and the cases are impossible to forget. Beyond the news and behind the emotions, Investigation Discovery and renowned Emmy®-winning journalist, Paula Zahn, join forces to investigate life’s criminal mysteries by lifting the secrecy on acts of deceit, malice and revenge that have engrossed North American headlines. Anchoring Investigation Discovery’s Sunday night lineup beginning Sunday, September 5 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN takes viewers through every twist and turn inside staggering real-life investigations. Revealing the raw emotions these tragedies have left behind, Zahn conducts riveting interviews with the very people touched by these fascinating cases.
In each episode of ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN, Zahn tracks the real-life drama of each story by featuring the personal points of view of the people closest to the case, including exploring the motivation and thought processes of the men and women responsible for these crimes. The series includes perspective from law enforcement investigators, families of the victims and the incarcerated, and lawyers representing both sides of legal proceedings. Presenting the spectrum of viewpoints directly touched by these cases, Zahn’s interviews reveal chilling details that uncover the truth.
Highlights from the first episodes of ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN include:
ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN – “A Murder in Pleasant Valley”
Sunday, September 5 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT
Dawn Silvernail, is a convicted murderer who gunned down her former lover, Susan Fassett, in a church parking lot in Pleasant Valley, N.Y. Silvernail’s trial exposed her twisted murder plot and the sordid truth of Fassett’s secret life of infidelity, dominance, sex and betrayal.
ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN – “Honeymoon Hit”
Sunday, September 12 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT
Facing 10 years in prison if convicted, Timothy “Tracey” Humphrey hatched a plan to silence ex-girlfriend Sandra Rozzo, who pressed charges against him for kidnapping and assault. Needing an accomplice to pull it off, Humphrey manipulated – and later married – a shy 19-year-old girl right out of high school to do his dirty work and shoot Rozzo at point-blank range in her garage.
ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN – “Hit or Miss”
Sunday, September 19 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
In January 2001, Alexander Algeri was shot and killed as he left his gym. More than a year later, police uncover that Algeri had been the victim of mistaken identity and the bullet had actually been intended for his best friend, Paul Riedel, who had been in a custody battle with his estranged wife, Lee Ann. Police discover that Lee Ann’s then new boyfriend, Ralph Salierno, had hired his friend Scott Paget to help him kill Riedel, but the two men simply got the wrong guy.
About Paula Zahn
A 30-year news veteran, journalist Paula Zahn most recently anchored for CNN and hosted the primetime show PAULA ZAHN NOW. Before joining CNN, Zahn was the host of The EDGE WITH PAULA ZAHN, a daily news program on Fox News Channel. She joined Fox in 1999 as anchor of its evening news, The FOX REPORT. Previously she spent 10 years at CBS News, where she co-hosted CBS MORNING NEWS and anchored the CBS EVENING NEWS SATURDAY EDITION. Earlier, Zahn served as co-anchor of WORLD NEWS THIS MORNING and anchored news segments of GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC. Zahn has won nine Emmy® Awards, the National Commission of Working Women Broadcasting Award and an AWRT Award for reporting on gender bias in education.
