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Episodes
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- Wrong Turn · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 75On a dark April night in rural Hebron, New York, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis and her friends are searching for a party when they turn down the wrong driveway. At first, it seems…
- Understood · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 74A day of drinking for Aaron Vargas ends in a night of revelation for an entire California town. For twenty years, he kept another man’s secret. But on a cold February night in…
- Trust · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 73Kimberly Neptune spent her life helping others in the close-knit community of Sipayik. Then, one spring night, a trusted visitor came knocking. The investigation that followed…
- Grandeur · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 72On August 4th, 2022, a quiet street in Laurel, Nebraska wakes to fire, smoke, and a woman dead inside her burning home. As the neighborhood becomes a crime scene, police begin…
- Swindled · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 71When friends of Jaime Feden called for a welfare check, they feared something terrible had happened to her. What police uncovered instead was a web of lies, manipulation, and a…
- Semper Fi · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 70February 24, 2016, in Kingston, Laura Buckingham had built what seemed like a picture-perfect life, until a bitter custody battle began to unravel it. Behind the façade, a plan…
- Closeted · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 69A man named Jeffrey Freeman was found dead in his own home. The most disturbing aspect of this case isn't just the manner of his death; it's what was occurring inside the house…
- Slicer · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 68On September 25, 2014, an ordinary shift at Vaughn Foods in Moore, Oklahoma exploded into chaos after a workplace dispute took a horrifying turn. As panic spread through the…
- Choices · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 67A fugitive on the run takes a woman hostage. Ashley Smith is not only fighting for her life, but also trying to take back control of it. To make it through, she must force a…
- Gamer · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 66On a quiet evening in Wichita, Kansas, flashing police lights suddenly flood a residential street. When 28-year-old Andrew Finch steps onto his front porch to see what’s…
- Visitor · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 65On April 18, 2019, 57-year-old Wilfred Guzman was at home when a familiar visit turned into a savage fight for survival. By the time police forced their way inside Apartment 16…
- Barren · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 64A plot to find a million dollars in buried fortune ends in unthinkable violence. Mary was caught in the middle of it all. She shouldn’t have survived the desert, but when she…
- Lovers · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 63In November 2012, freshly divorced auto shop manager Dave Kroupa thought he was navigating the casual dating scene in Omaha, Nebraska until one short relationship ended and the…
- Sanctuary · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 62On a quiet January morning in rural Pennsylvania, Rhonda Smith went to work at her church and never came home. What started as a shocking act of violence inside a place of…
- Bad Friends · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 61On March 12, 2000, in Spearfish, South Dakota, nineteen-year-old Chester Allan Poage agrees to a night that seems harmless… until it isn’t. In a secluded pocket of the Black…
- Survival · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 60In October 2013, fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez vanished on her walk home from school in rural New Hampshire. Months passed, searches faded, and a letter arrived that changed…
- Echo Chamber · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 59When an 83-year-old woman is found dead inside her quiet Old Greenwich home, investigators start piecing together the final months of her life, and the unraveling of her son…
- Hollywood · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 58It's March 2006 in Villa Park Illinois and nineteen-year-old Rose thinks she’s found an escape, until a woman vanishes and the search starts pointing somewhere darker. As…
- Snap · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 57Thirteen-year-old Thad Phillips fell asleep on his couch—and woke up in a nightmare. Trapped in a decaying house with a smiling teen and sinister intentions, he would spend two…
- Party · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 56James Rackover looked like someone who had it all. He had style, status, and a last name that carried weight. But the truth behind the image was darker. When a man goes missing…
- Trouble Ahead · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 55A teenage girl’s discovery of a human skull on Iowa’s Greenbelt River Trail led investigators to the murder of missing 29-year-old Angela Nicole Bradbury. The case unraveled into…
- Consumed · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 54When a devastating fire consumed the lives of an affluent British family, suspicions arose, pointing fingers at those who knew business tycoon Chris Foster and may have wanted…
- One Percent · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 5362-year-old Kathy Hughes Anderson spent her career tending to trees, preserving beauty and order across the towns she served. In retirement, she brought that same quiet…
- Room Service · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 5217-year-old Linda Bury’s home life was a mess, so she turned to social media to reinvent herself. There she met Joshua Mebane and this unassuming, wealthy monster would change…
- Family Meal · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 51The town of Chickasha, Oklahoma was shaken to its core when they heard the news that two were dead, one of which was a four year old child, and another was seriously maimed…
- Mom · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 50Kimberly Cargill was evil personified. She abused her children for years, circumventing the system to keep them in her clutches. Finally, the state caught on and what she did to…
- Dad · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 49In the tiny, rural village of Emerson, Nebraska, where only about 800 people live nestled in the northern, rolling hills, a series of inexplicable events begins to unfold. What…
- Evil Prevails · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 48In San Fernando Valley, whispers of occult dealings and the lingering legacy of Charles Manson and Richard Ramirez still cast eerie shadows. This is where the chilling tale of…
- Lobotomized · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 47Tammy thought she met the man of her dreams when she started dating Joseph Oberhansley. He was younger than her and she found him handsome. But when he slowly became controlling…
- Father Figure · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 46The report of local businessman Tom Merriman’s death may have been overstated but when officers with the Solana Beach Police Department searched for Tom and couldn’t find him…
- Assistance · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 45In July 2020, 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was found dismembered down to his torso in his New York City apartment. Bank statements would reveal who had the motive to…
- Laborious · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 44When a 46-year-old woman calls 9-11 for help after a sudden home birth, suspicions are raised when she shows no signs of labor. Police would soon discover the grisly truth behind…
- Cheers · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 43Cameron Kirk was a sad, depressed middle-aged man who found himself living back at home with his mother, Paula Kirk. Things had never been good between the two, but as her…
- Surgeon · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 42A long-time dream turns into a nightmare for a Virginia man trapped in a cabin in the Oklahoma woods. Kia Aster had the highest hopes when he met a stranger at the airport. But…
- No Justice · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 41In December of 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was set on fire in her car on an old country road in her rural Mississippi town. Jessica survived long enough to give a few…
- The Gift · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 40Colleen and Rob McKernan were set up by common friends and had a quick, whirlwind romance. But her controlling ways would turn fatal as she learned the hard way that you can’t…
- Act Your Age · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 39When 15-year-old Joanna Dennehy first met 20-year-old John Treanor in her hometown of St. Albans, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, the romance was like something out of…
- The Pact · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 38A quaint township in Pennsylvania is shaken to its core when three dead bodies are discovered lying in a perfect line in their backyard. The police don’t immediately know what…
- The Tourist · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 37When recent college graduates Kelsey Chang and Eva Liu decided to take a celebratory trip to Europe before starting their careers, neither young woman could have prevented the…
- Hell · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 3688 elderly lives are in peril after the Quaker’s Hill Nursing Home goes up in flames. Who started the fire, and why? This is the story of one of Australia’s worst mass murderers…
- Clown · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 35Engulfed in the horrorcore scene, 20-year-old Richard McCroskey made a name for himself, singing about satanism, suicide, murder, and rape online. After releasing songs titled…
- Cuck · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 34Pastor David Evans and his wife, Kristie, were stars in their little town of Ada, Oklahoma. They were good Christians devoted to their church and their community, but once they…
- God Bless America · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 33In the idyllic town of Shakopee, where the Minnesota River winds its peaceful course, and a community finds solace, tranquility turns to terror when a horrifying crime rocks the…
- Full House · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 32It took over four years to identify the remains of Ryan Zimmerman. Understanding how and why he was killed would force authorities to untangle a twisted knot of love, sex, and…
- Protector · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 31On the bleak day following Thanksgiving in 2022, the tranquility of La Sierra South, a Riverside, California neighborhood, was shattered. Within the confines of a close-knit…
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- What a Boar · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 30In 2016, a notorious Polish librarian took flight to the island of Malta after brutally mutilating a beautiful language teacher named Katarzyna Jaroszyńska. Police were thrust…
- Such Drama · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 29When a promising young actress is raped and murdered in her childhood bedroom, her family and the police department are stunned as to who could have done this. Two linking crimes…
- Sucker · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 28During some of Romania’s toughest times under Communist control, a vampire stalked the streets after midnight seeking out prey to satisfy his urges for blood and death. While the…
- Sugar · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 2718-year-old Aprina Paul was a nursing student following her dreams when she mysteriously went missing. Her mother Alice Larrue never gave up hope, even when Aprina’s killer…
