A BEAUTIFUL GIRL WITH AMBITIOUS DREAMS -- DID FOLLOWING HER HEART COST HER LIFE?

Award-winning journalists from TVs 48 Hours Mystery go inside the case that shocked even jaded New Yorkers: the murder of aspiring dancer Catherine Woods.

She was a gifted midwestern beauty the daughter of Ohio State Universitys marching band director: to dance on Broadway. Soon after high school graduation Catherine left Columbus for New York City determined to be a star. Three years later she was dead -- murdered in cold blood in her East Side apartment. The shocking revelations that emerged from the police investigation made tabloid headlines: few knew that the struggling artist paid her bills by dancing in a topless club. But there was another hidden facet to Catherines life -- a shattering love triangle with two men one of whom would ultimately be convicted of her brutal stabbing death. Its a chilling account of obsession violence and the surprising minute evidence on which the entire case hinged. For a talented young woman reaching for the top and the heartbroken family she left behind it is truly the death of a dream.