On the Case with Paula Zahn: Season 20
Season 20 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of On the Case with Paula Zahn Season 19.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 20 Progress Shield
Shadow Of Suspicion
Apr 26, 2020 · 43 min
A young woman travels to California in pursuit of a Hollywood dream and winds up the victim of a savage homicide.
One Of Us
May 3, 2020 · 43 min
A young records clerk at the Seattle police department is murdered on her way to work her overnight shift. Can police find the evidence to catch the killer of one of their own?
Salt In The Wound
May 10, 2020 · 43 min
An independent young woman starting out in life on her own, becomes the victim of a bizarre and vicious homicide in her apartment.
Wedding Day Nightmare
May 17, 2020 · 43 min
A young woman getting ready to be a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding is found viciously stabbed to death in her own home.
Little Lamb
May 24, 2020 · 43 min
Investigators must identify a gunman who murdered a young mother but spared her child asleep in her car seat in the back of her minivan.
Terror in Bedford Park
Jun 6, 2020 · 43 min
A young woman is found stabbed to death locked inside a locker at a storage facility.
Evidence Never Lies
Jun 14, 2020 · 43 min
A young woman is found drowned in her bathtub and the evidence at the crime scene indicates her killer was someone she knew and trusted.
Long Walk, Cold Night
Jun 21, 2020 · 43 min
When a teenage girl is found murdered after a night out with friend, Police must retrace her final steps to find her killer.
Texts Lies and Videotape
Jun 28, 2020 · 43 min
When a young mother disappears, a series of text messages from her phone lead police to believe she left on her own. Then, her family uncovers evidence that she may have actually b
A Predator in the Woods
Jul 5, 2020 · 43 min
Two young girls are lured into a deadly trap by a vicious sexual predator. Can the lone survivor of the attack help police bring her best friend's killer to justice?
In the Wind
Jul 12, 2020 · 43 min
A daughter's quest to see her birth mother's murder solved is complicated when police discover the prime suspect is in the wind.
Lying in the Darkness
Jul 26, 2020 · 43 min
A jeep swerves off a dark stretch of road and takes the life of a loving mother. But when law enforcement arrives, they discover evidence that the accident wasn't the cause of her
Spreadsheet Of Terror
Aug 2, 2020 · 43 min
When the body of a teenage girl is found in the Columbia River, police wonder if she was the victim of an accident or suicide. But the evidence reveals it was the beginning of dist
A Test Of Patience
Aug 9, 2020 · 43 min
The unsolved murder of a teenager torments a small, midwestern city for decades until a relentless team of investigators finally finds the clue that breaks the case wide open.
A Heartbreaking Discovery
Aug 16, 2020 · 43 min
When a young mother disappears police painstakingly retrace her last known movements. The trail of clues they uncover leads to a shocking and heartbreaking discovery.