In this powerful interview for this week's episode of CRIME CAPSULE: Ripped from the pages of a reporter's notebook, a mother shares her family's devastating loss over the murder of her son. He had been on a long road to recovery from addiction when a store owner in downtown Raleigh accused Mark Garrity of shoplifting a bottle of Gatorade and then stabbed him to death in broad daylight in front of many onlookers. Taiseer Zarka was found guilty and sentenced to more than five years in prison which Mark's mother, Amy, believes is a small price to pay for taking her son's life. Chelsea Donovan covered this case from the beginning. In this interview, Amy shares her heartbreak and her frustration over a justice system she believes failed her son.

In July 2008, a mother of two young daughters is reported missing by her friends in an idyllic suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina. There is a massive search to find Nancy Cooper. Her husband tells local police she went jogging and never returned. A few days later, a dog walker finds Nancy's body in an undeveloped subdivision a few miles from her home. Quickly, the investigation would lead detectives straight to Nancy's husband, Brad Cooper. But an affair and a failing marriage were not enough to arrest him. They needed evidence, and Brad was smart at covering his tracks, or so he thought. He created an elaborate alibi that police needed to unravel if they were ever going to solve the case. In this episode of Crime Capsule: Ripped from the pages of a reporter's notebook, we speak to Nancy's family about their heartbreaking journey to get justice for Nancy and to create awareness about domestic violence.

Eric Miller and his wife Ann Miller married after a college romance, had a baby girl, and thriving careers. Eric was a promising pediatric AIDS Researcher at a major university. Ann was a chemist at a top tier pharmaceutical company. But Ann yearned for more. Her desire for money and men would lead her down a lethal path that ended in Eric’s death. It would be years before investigators could unravel the complex web of lies and startling physical evidence. This is a story of a deadly chemical romance, epic deceit, and a road for justice with many twists and turns. The murder weapon was arsenic. Someone put it in Eric’s beer, injected into his IV in the hospital, and mixed into his chicken and rice dinner. It took years, a suicide, intense scientific testing, and precise police work to finally catch and convict the killer. Join veteran television crime reporters, Amanda Lamb and Chelsea Donovan, as they peel back the curtain on this case that Amanda covered from the beginning and eventually wrote a book about. They speak to the prosecutor in charge of the case and the attorney who defended Ann’s lover. This case has been the subject of countless true crime documentaries, but you’ve never heard the story quite like this, from the people who were there…

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