On the Case with Paula Zahn: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
In Broad Daylight
Oct 30, 2011 · 43 min
In a small town outside Atlanta, young mother Heather Strube is gunned down in a Target parking lot in broad daylight while stunned eyewitnesses search for cover, and with her 18-m
Death and the Doctor
Nov 6, 2011 · 43 min
Margo Prade, a prominent doctor in Akron, OH, is discovered shot and killed in her van parked outside her office. Margo was one of their own, married for 17 years to a highly respe
Severed Ties
Nov 13, 2011 · 43 min
Cathy and Lyndel Robertson were both shot multiple times while asleep in their bedroom. Cathy died at the scene, but somehow, Lyndel survived, despite being shot in the face and ch
No One to Trust
Nov 20, 2011 · 43 min
18-year-old Lisa Kimmell was driving home for the Easter holiday when she vanished somewhere on the 600 miles of desolate highway between Denver, CO, and Billings, MT. Days later,
A Stranger's Knock
Dec 4, 2011 · 43 min
Norma Ates' body was discovered when firefighters responded to a fire at her house; she was shot and killed in her own bedroom. After years of searching, police finally find two my
Twice Is No Accident
Dec 11, 2011 · 43 min
When Fran Smith mysteriously disappears her sister and daughter mount their own investigation... What they uncover sends police on a cross country man hunt for a killer.
Lost in the Fire
Dec 18, 2011 · 43 min
When a pregnant mother of two is found shot to death in her fire-ravaged home, police find there are more suspects than clues.
Last Rites
Jan 8, 2012 · 43 min
When a nun is found strangled and stabbed to death on the day before Easter, investigators are forced to look behind church walls in search of a killer.
Secrets from the Grave
Jan 15, 2012 · 43 min
After a teenager's partially nude body is discovered brutally beaten in a desolate cemetery, Investigators and her family face an emotional journey to the truth behind her murder.
Murder at Sunset
Jan 22, 2012 · 43 min
A mother and two daughters are discovered floating in Tampa Bay after a brutal triple homicide. Police must rely on a victim who survived a similar attack to bring the killer to ju
Left in the Dark
Jan 29, 2012 · 43 min
When a beautiful young graduate student is found stabbed to death, detectives must determine if the murder was a crime of passion or a brutal attack by a violent intruder.
The Art of Murder
Feb 12, 2012 · 43 min
In order to solve the murder of a talented young art student, investigators must first unravel a bizarre web of jealousy and deceit.
Unmasking a Killer
Feb 19, 2012 · 43 min
A beautiful grad student is found murdered inside a yoga apparel store. On the surface it appeared she was the victim of a botched robbery, but remarkable police work revealed a fa