On the Case With Paula Zahn: Discovery Channel TV Show
Paula Ann Zahn (born February 24, 1956) is an American journalist, newscaster, former news anchor on ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. On July 24, 2007, she announced her resignation from CNN. The final broadcast of Paula Zahn Now aired August 2, 2007. In January 2009, Discovery Communications announced that Zahn had entered into a development deal for a newsmagazine series, On the Case with Paula Zahn. The series, which profiles real crime stories, premiered October 18, 2009 on the Investigation Discovery cable channel.
Zahn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a schoolteacher/artist mother and an IBM sales executive father. She initially grew up in Canton, Ohio, with her parents and three siblings. The family relocated to Naperville, Illinois, as her father's job as required them to move frequently. She once joked that "IBM" really stood for "I've been moved". She attended Washington Junior High School in Naperville and later graduated from Naperville Central High School in 1974. She also competed in several beauty pageants, making the finals of the 1973 Miss Teenage America Pageant. Zahn continued her education at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri on a cello scholarship, and received firsthand knowledge of the news business by working as an intern at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Zahn then spent the next 10 years working at local stations around the country, including WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, KFMB-TV in San Diego, California, KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas, WHDH-TV (then WNEV) in Boston, Massachusetts, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California.
On the Case With Paula Zahn Season 1 Episode 52 (Campus Killer) airs: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Investigation Discovery.
On the Case With Paula Zahn Season 1 Episode 53(Murder by Numbers) airs: Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Investigation Discovery.
On the Case With Paula Zahn Season 1 Episode 56 (Betrayal at Charisma Farms) airs: Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10:00pm EDT on Investigation Discovery. Synopsis of the episode: A man is found murdered on the side of the road and investigators must unravel a tangled web of intrigue.
