This episode profiles the house firebombing mass murders of the Dawson Family. Forty-three-year-old Carnell Dawson Sr., his wife, 36-year-old Angela Dawson, as well as their five children; 14-year-old LaWanda Dawson, 12-year-old Juan Ortiz, 10-year-old Carnell Dawson Jr. and 9-year-old twins Kevin and Keith Dawson all died in a house fire that was firebombed by 21-year-old Darrell Brooks on October 16, 2002, in the Dawson's rowhome in the 1400 block of East Preston Street in East Baltimore.
This episode also profiles the beating murder of 23-month-old Quaniece LaShanda Orange, who was found not breathing with blunt force trauma in her home in the 8000 block of Green Orchard Road in Glen Burnie, on December 2, 1986.