Attorney Richard Merritt, had a last home cooked meal with his mother before he was set to report to jail for embezzlement. But when Merritt didn't show up on time investigators found his mother dead in the living room. Merritt claimed an intruder had attacked them both and he had fled for his life.

When Becky Bliefnick failed to pick up her boys from school, a family member went to check and found her dead in the living room. Detectives found a major clue in an unlikely place–on an episode of the game show "Family Feud."