Episode 1 | Groene Family Massacre

A savage killer goes on a homicidal rampage and then abducts two young siblings from their home in the middle of the night; the children quickly decide they will do whatever is necessary to survive.

Episode 2 | Mother's Orders

In 1987, West Virginia authorities receive a call from a woman claiming to have shot her husband. This seemingly open-and-shut murder case is anything but.

Episode 3 | Alibi

During an armed robbery, a father of three is fatally shot. Twenty-three years later, another family questions if the wrong man is behind bars.

Episode 4 | Valley of Death

Investigators search for links to the mysterious cases of five young people who disappear between 1979 and 1982 in the rural area of Lewis-Clark Valley along the Idaho-Washington border.

Episode 5 | The Colorado Hammer Killer

Vanessa Bennett, a toddler, saw her family brutally murdered by a stranger with a hammer. The killer, who ended up being Alex Ewing, was found guilty of the murders along with Patricia Smith in 1984.

Episode 6 | Evil Comes to Jasper

This installment details the June 7, 1998 hate-crime killing of James Byrd, Jr., age 49, an African-American man, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a p...

Episode 7 | American Nightmare

Charlie and Joy Hibbs put down roots in the safe, tight-knit, working class community of Croydon, PA with their two children. But the family's newfound American dream be-comes a nightmare after their home is set ablaze and one of ...

Episode 8 | The Grudge

In January 2020, a Mennonite woman, Sasha Krause, goes missing from her small religious community. Law enforcement is stymied when they find her body but forensic evidence leads them to a dead end. Detectives get creative in an ef...

Episode 9 | Gone in the Night

Allyzibeth Lamont, age 22, who was known as "Ally Lamont" was murdered on October 28, 2019 in the Local No. 9 deli in Johnstown, New York where she had been employed. Her body, buried in a shallow grave, was found by police on Oct...

Episode 10 | Darkness in the Desert

On June 14, 2013, 19-year-old Adrienne Salinas and her two roommates are hosting a party at their apartment in Tempe, Arizona. The party is in full swing when Adrienne suddenly decides to leave. She gets in her car, drives away, a...

Episode 11 | Natural Born Killers

In May of 2002, a couple goes missing in Ocean City, MD. It's almost as if they vanished into thin air, until a random, late-night burglary leads police to discover a tale of deception, brutality, and savagery the likes of which t...

Episode 12 | Infamous Pam Hupp

In 2011, a husband returns home to find his wife dead on the living room floor. He tells first responders she committed suicide, but in fact she was murdered - stabbed over 40 times. Police zero in on the husband and what unfolds ...

Episode 13 | Candy and Betty

When neighbors find a young teacher axed to death on Friday the 13th, a sleepy suburb in Kansas fears a psychopath is loose. The bloody crime scene leads police to a most unlikely suspect, unfolding a story people still have to se...

Episode 14 | The Colorado Hammer Killer - Part 2

Vanessa Bennett saw her family murdered by a hammer-wielding stranger when she was 3 years old. On April 7, 2022, a Jefferson County jury found 61-year-old Alex Ewing guilty of killing Patricia Smith in early 1984. The result of t...