The Hunt with John Walsh

An abusive husband goes on the lam in the mountains after he allegedly murders his wife and their two children in their home.

A former soldier escapes custody after being caught with child pornography, and an accused child molester shoots it out with police.

After brutally slaying his entire family and torching their bodies, a former diplomat flees overseas, where he eludes authorities for decades.

A troubled ex-Marine fires on police and vanishes into the woods without a trace, and a drunk driver removes his tracking device and vanishes.

A trusted neighbor disappears after facing multiple charges of child molestation, and new evidence in an old case leads to a manhunt for the suspect.

Suspected of letting 11 undocumented immigrants perish in an overheated rail car, an accused human trafficker goes on the run from authorities.

The leader of a small cult flees overseas after he's accused of sexually abusing the underage daughters of many of his followers.

Parents of an abducted boy keep the search for their son alive after more than two decades, and a mother abducts her own daughter and hides her for more than a decade.

An Egyptian-born taxi driver takes deadly advantage - and control of - his Texas family by abusing his wife and incest his two daughters, whom he would kill in 2008 after learning they had boyfriends and were trying to flee with their mother to Oklahoma.

Family members in California details the manipulation and sexual molestations of a man who they trusted as a father, which leads to the 2008 murder of a step-daughter who he molested and had a child with; a Charleston, South Carolina Police officer becomes a fugitive from justice after he killed his Brazilian-born wife and charged with sexually molesting a student from his karate class in 2005.

The search is on to track down a Oregon man who has eluded authorities since 1992 after he was convicted and arrested for kidnapping, rape, and torture of a teenage prostitute that he and his half-brother held prisoner for several hours until she escaped. The victim eventually led police to the home and discovered that they also kidnapped and tortured many more women. While the half-brother has since turned himself in and is serving a 108-year sentence, he has remained silent on his sibling's whereabouts.

A Florida woman disappears with her daughter and leaves both the child's father and her family. A pedophile is sought by authorities in Texas and Montana.

A Hindu spiritual leader who was convicted of child molestation in Texas has managed to elude authorities.

A Texas woman is being sought in connection with the murder of her estranged husband - after she paid her boyfriend to have him killed so to make it look like an accident in order to get his real estate holdings, which is in the millions. Her deception of claiming innocence would come undone when the boyfriend, who is now serving life in prison, told authorities she planned it all along; A Oregon construction worker, who is wanted on felony warrants for kidnapping, criminal impersonation, assault, attempted rape, robbery, child sex abuse and failing to register as a child sex offender, disappears after his last attempt in 2010, when he tried to kidnap two young women after they attended a Snoop Dogg concert in Portland.

The 2002 murder of a Texas woman who was trying to make money as a prostitute by a self-described "Vampire" continues to haunt authorities and her family members after his confession, even as they pursue his whereabouts after his disappearance upon learning that the murderer's family posted bail before he could be charged with the crime; A Missouri man who had been convicted for sodomy and had been on parole continued his pedophilia ways after moving back to his hometown and began molesting his best friend's daughter and was later charged for the crime in 2001. Unfortunately, he and his wife disappeared just as he was about to go on trial in November 2002. The disappearance would take its toll on the victim, who committed suicide by inhaling paint fumes after she moved to Colorado in 2003.

After a woman's suicide in a Rockford, Illinois in 2011, the family wants know who has her son, whom she took off with and disappeared, leaving a note that states that he has found a family to take care of him; Jealousy and vengeance leads a Virginia man with a lengthy criminal record to commit arson and murder, killing his ex-girlfriend's sister and her son, her mother, and her grandmother.

Authorities in Texas are searching for a man who confessed to having murdered a divorced stripper in 2006, but has managed to stay one step ahead of the law. The subject was also profiled on America's Most Wanted twice.

An Nebraska man uses a twelve year old boy to lure girls so he can then sexually assault them. The suspect was arrested, but escaped during transit to jail, resuming his attack on another teenage girl.^[38] Authorities in Michigan track down a pair of brothers who gunned down a young man at a party during a search for a ex-gang member.

A convicted South Carolina sexual predator, who already served five of his ten years for incesting his daughter, becomes too obsessed and too close with his young female victims, even with the help of the daughter, the latter arrested and served ten years for her involvement; A New York State man takes to the woods after he shoots and kills his estranged daughter-in-law over a property dispute.

Robert William Fisher has not been seen since April 10, 2001 after allegedly setting his Scottsdale, Arizona house on fire and fatally murdering his wife, daughter, and son. He is thought to be an avid outdoors man and is possibly hiding in the Tonto National Forest where his Toyota 4Runner was discovered 10 days after the murders; A Honolulu couple flee the island with help from a group opposed to the United States government after they are indicted for mortgage fraud, leaving victims in a state of financial ruin and family grief.

Authorities in Harris County, Texas are desperate to find a convicted pimp, child molester and sexual predator, known for profiting from prostitution and sex trade trafficking. Among his victims included a woman whom he impregnated and had a daughter that he used as insurance in order to keep her from escaping. His downfall came when one of the places used for prostitution was raided in 2010, only to elude the authorities after he was sentenced to life for his crimes in 2013.

A stock broker is the prime suspect in the murder of a Maryland accounting professor after he uses her in a scheme to take advantage of her life savings and their relationship. However, despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime, he has managed to avoid justice by hiding in his native Mexico in order to avoid extradition and claiming innocence.

A Texas woman is being sought in connection with the horrific and brutal murder of her best friend in 2012, and already her accomplice/boyfriend is serving 34 years for his part in the crime.

Burroughs is wanted in a 2000 murder in Arizona. Jordan was convicted in a 1974 murder of a school principal in Georgia, but escaped from prison in 1984.

A hockey coach rapes and marries a 17-year-old girl from Sweden; she remained virtually a prisoner in her house during the marriage.

A Illinois man accused of molesting family members disappears before his trial. A New York City man is wanted on charges he murdered two women.

A Southern California millionaire allegedly murders his wife, and then calls the authorities with a far-fetched claim that a house-painter did it. The brutal rape and murder of a flight attendant goes unsolved for 8 years, until the perpetrator’s terrified family flees to Mexico to unmask him for authorities.

A Santeria priest allegedly murders his lover, rapes a minor during a “healing” ritual, and molests his step-daughter – all hiding behind the cloak of his religion.

A family man rapes his 12-year-old stepdaughter for five years before she comes forward with the truth – then he goes on the run. Two coworkers and roommates become close friends, but soon greed and desperation drives one of them to allegedly murder the other.

An unlikely love affair develops between former high school classmates who reconnected on Facebook – but the whirlwind romance ends with one lover dead and the other on the run. What begins as a rare night out for a group of single moms ends tragically when a random encounter at a gas station devolves into a one-sided shootout that takes two of the women’s lives.

A father in the midst of a child custody battle over his son discovers a note announcing that the child’s mother has vanished, taking their child with her. A young mother working as a custodian in an office complex is found raped and strangled in the men’s bathroom, but it takes more than 20 years of cold-case work to pinpoint the killer.

A convicted sex offender and his girlfriend pose as upright citizens founding a progressive urban school – until they are caught having sex with one of the students. In New York City, a construction worker brutally slashes a popular young British man to death in a seemingly random encounter.

A rejected abusive boyfriend stalks his ex – the mother of his child – trapping and killing her in her workplace. A 61-year-old grandmother is raped by a 37-year-old ne’er-do-well after he lures her to his dungeon-like home.

Only months after their arranged marriage, a young husband from India allegedly beats his wife to death while the two work an overnight shift in the kitchen of a Maryland donut shop. When a toddler inexplicably dies after spending a day in daycare, doctors determine that the cause of death is blunt force trauma – and the babysitter mysteriously vanishes.

A Chicago teen who refuses to declare his allegiance to a violent gang after he stumbles onto their turf winds up beaten and shot to death in an alleyway. Accused of killing an Iraq War veteran while driving under the influence, a serial DUI offender flees just as his trial is set to begin.

A former police officer who had stalked, assaulted, or attempted to seduce more than five young women over the course of his career is arrested while attempting to hook up for sex with minor girls using internet chatrooms he met on the Internet; he serves his time – then, while out on parole, he flees.

In a nightmarish story, a young girl being raped by her stepfather tells her family and the authorities – and no one believes her. A grudge-fight between acquaintances escalates until one man shoots the other in the head in front of their three mutual friends.

When two teenagers from different gangs get into an ongoing battle over family and respect, one stabs the other to death in front of dozens of witnesses. During an early 1980s protest, a member of a radical group blinds a police officer and goes on the run for 35 years.

An undocumented factory worker in southern California vanishes after he blackmails his employers about their illegal employment practices.

An eccentric young father in Manchester, New Hampshire murders his own parents in a haze of rage and drug-addiction – then abandons his own child and flees into the American South.