Evil Lives Here
A TV series where individuals share their perspectives of loved ones who committed horrific crimes.
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Cast:James M. Reilly , T.J. Craig , Robert Levey II , Kathy-Ann Hart , John Cerny , Brian Vadim , David Wenzel , Marian Murray , Mark Lehneman , Steve Schroko , Jennifer Capri , Andrew Colford , Hillary Hamilton , George Keller , Margaret Keller , Frank Di Napoli , James Zeiss , Ava Briglia
S1.E1 ∙ Something Is Different About Robbie
For the first time, the father and stepmother of Robbie Hawkins talk on camera about his heinous crime. Though Ronald Hawkins and Candace Sims knew that Robbie was different from an early age, they were unprepared for the violent act that Robbie would commit, a crime that shook the nation.
S1.E2 ∙ My Brother's Secret
Danyall White always thought her brother, Richard, was just a prankster who told crazy stories. He would say a friend of his had died...and then she'd run into that person on the street. He'd say he robbed a gas station...but she never saw it reported in the news. Danyall learned not to believe most of her brother's tall tales. But then his stories started getting more and more violent. Richard talked about murdering women, going into vivid detail about when, how, and why. When are stories just stories? And when are they signs you're living with evil? Danyall White tells her gripping story on television for the first time.
S1.E3 ∙ Cheating Death
16-year-old Cathy was a wild child from a broken home who just wanted someone to love and care for her. When she met Peter Tobin, she thought she had found the man of her dreams: a perfect gentleman twice her age who offered her the adult life she'd been yearning for. But by the time she discovered the horrible secret truth about her new husband, it was too late. For years, Cathy witnessed and endured Peter's unspeakable violence. How would she keep herself and her son alive long enough to escape one of the most evil men in modern history?
S1.E4 ∙ The Prophet
When Kevin Currie heard that his close friend, Jeffrey Lundgren, was inviting fellow Mormons to come live and pray in his farmhouse in Kirtland, Ohio, Kevin thought he had finally found the family environment he'd never had as a child. Jeff knew the Scriptures better than anyone, and he was like a brother to Kevin. But while Jeff preached about fighting evil, Kevin slowly started to suspect that the real evil was there in the farmhouse. As he began to recognize the signs, he realized that his own life was at risk. Was this Man of God really a devil in disguise?
S1.E5 ∙ In Love with the Devil
When Bernadette was 17, her boyfriend, Brian Sugrim, told her that he had murdered someone...and she didn't believe him. Brian was intelligent, charming, and loving-a perfect boyfriend-and Bernadette wanted her "happily ever after." The two got married and started a family...but then Brian started to change. He became angry, abusive, and violent. But Bernadette didn't tell police her husband's secret. Then, after a decade of terrifying abuse, Brian came home one night and confessed to Bernadette that he had just murdered someone else. Only she still didn't go to the police. Would she finally report Brian to the authorities? Or would she help a monster get away with murder?
S1.E6 ∙ Home Sweet Nightmare
When Sheila Janutolo first married Jim Cruz, she hated the fact that his job took him away from her so often. But Jim didn't seem to feel the same way. He'd never call home, and he told her there was no way to reach him on the road. After a while, he started returning from his trips in a dark mood...and with a violent temper. Sheila dreaded being alone in the house with him, and with each passing day, she felt more trapped. But when she got the call years later that he'd been arrested, she was certain that police had the wrong man. All those times her husband had gone away, he couldn't possibly have been committing the evil crimes they were accusing him of. Could he?
S2.E1 ∙ Not My Boy
George and Margaret Keller never suspected that the man terrorizing their city could be a member of their own family. As it dawns on them that their son is hiding a sinister secret, they must decide whether or not to turn him in.
S2.E2 ∙ She Made Me Do It
As a boy, Eric Witte's father taught him to protect his family. But as his father grows increasingly violent, Eric realizes that he is the evil his family needs protection from.
S2.E3 ∙ My Brother, the Devil
Wallace Jeffs comes to realize that his half-brother, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, is not what he appears to be.
S2.E4 ∙ The Horror I Don't Remember
Sherry Shafer fears her younger brother will return to finish what he started 26 years ago.
S2.E5 ∙ The Son of the Prophet
Dennis Ryan follows father Michael's violent teachings to believe in the xenophobic, radical tenets of the Followers of Yahweh. His father prepares him to save the lives of everyone in their farmhouse no matter what the human cost will be.
S2.E6 ∙ My Secret Nightmare
Tiffany Shore grows up knowing that her father is evil and is successful planning her escape to leave him.
S2.E7 ∙ My Brother's Secrets
Sean Lewis finds out that after helping his older brother Patrick get out of trouble many times that he was actually aiding him in leading a evil filled double life.
S2.E8 ∙ Our House of Horrors
Alice Swafford meets William Choyce and believes she has met her prince charming. As they build a life together she begins to realize she doesn't really know him at all, and that he has an evil side she never could have imagined.
S2.E9 ∙ Trapped in Hell
When Susan Hamlin walks into a police station to confess that she is part of a satanic cult and plans to murder her husband, no one could guess that the truth is even more bizarre and sinister, or that it is all part of her own desperate escape plan.
S2.E10 ∙ On the Run
Lindsay Wrinkles always knew that her father had a short temper, but she never expected to be on the run from him when she was only 14. As she runs from hideout to hideout desperate to evade him, Lindsay wonders what will happen if he ever finds her.
S3.E0 ∙ The Story of Warren Jeffs
Wallace Jeffs is raised to believe that his half-brother, Warren, will guide his family to salvation, then his nephew reveals Warren's true nature, and Wallace must choose between loyalty to his family or to his church's new prophet.
S3.E1 ∙ He Comes to My Dreams
When Gwen Bailey married Norman Starnes she counted herself lucky to land the most eligible bachelor in town. But years later, she discovered she never really knew him at all. And by the time she finally realized, she was already his unwilling accomplice.
S3.E2 ∙ The Monster I Married
The Monster I Married premieres Sunday, January 7 at 9/8c. When Cindy first fell in love with Bobby, she never could have imagined that she would one day regret not committing murder. But two decades after she discovered the horrifying truth about her husband, she is still haunted by memories of the night when she decided not to kill him in his sleep.
S3.E3 ∙ Deadly Fetish
When Debra Davis's husband accused her of being cold and immature for refusing to experiment sexually, she thought something was wrong with her. She never suspected her husband's perversions were signs that there was something evil deep within him.
S3.E4 ∙ Black Widow
This episode has the daughter of Blanche Taylor Moore talking about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of her dad, James Taylor, her mother's long-time boyfriend Raymond, and others. Cindy Taylor gives some insight into life with her mother and how she became more suspicious as time went on. Ms. Taylor-Moore is suspected in as many as 5 or 6 murders, but was tried and convicted for one.
S3.E5 ∙ My Son's Prisoner
Shelly Lietz has been afraid of her son ever since he was four years old, and her fear intensified and grows more crippling as he gets older and more violent , turning her into a prisoner in her own home.
S3.E6 ∙ First Love, Forever Evil
Melissa Holland was certain that her high school boyfriend, Michael Overstreet, was the man she'd always dreamed of. But only after they were married did she begin to realize that her determination to live happily ever after had put her in mortal danger.
S3.E7 ∙ The Soap Star's Secret
Actor Thom Bierdz brings his troubled younger brother, Troy, out to Los Angeles to help set him straight; however, Bierdz turns out to be wrong about being able to help his brother and pays with the life of a loved one.
S3.E8 ∙ The Cop and the Killer
When Walt Chavis joined the police force, he was prepared to risk his life, but he never imagined the greatest threat he would face would be his own brother or that one day he would be forced to choose between his duty and his family.
S3.E9 ∙ Blood Atonement
Estephania LeBaron was raised to believe that her father and brothers were holy men, and that the terrible things they did in God's name were just. But she questions everything when faced with having to do the same terrible things herself.
S3.E10 ∙ The Demon In His Eyes
As children, Betty and Ulayla adored their little brother, Johnny, and tried to protect him. As they got older, Johnny did strange things, but they never believed he was capable of pure evil until he confessed a horrible secret.
S3.E11 ∙ Put on a Happy Face
Melissa Moore loved being "Daddy's Little Girl", and to her, her father, Keith Jesperson, could do no wrong. But as she got older, that admiration was replaced by fear, and then by the horror of learning how close she had come to being his next victim.
S3.E12 ∙ Evil Talks: Chilling Confessions
This was not an episode of "Evil Lives Here." This was a "mini-series" aired in 2018. The episode guide is here: Evil Talks: Chilling Confessions (2018)
S3.E13 ∙ The Monster Inside Him
When Karen struck the deal that finally got her brother, Richard, out of her life, she didn't know he would turn his attention on another, his new wife, Vernetta. Neither woman realized the devastating impact Richard would have on both their lives.
S4.E1 ∙ I Invited Him In
Though for Jill Garrison to go back in time and tell us the story of the period of her life where there was an unknown danger of death too close to her.
S4.E2 ∙ In The Lion's Cage
Linda Wittmier and Terry Jo Howard both fell in love with James Michael Randall. And both suffered when they discovered the monster that lurked inside him. But they never realized how lucky they were to survive his twisted sexual desire to kill.
S4.E3 ∙ The Last Blanco
As a young boy, Michael Blanco had seen his mother do violent things. But he never once doubted that she did those things to keep their family safe. She was a woman with many different faces. Get to know Griselda Blanco through the eyes of her son.
S4.E4 ∙ Fear Thy Father
Charles Sexton was taught that his father, Eddie, was God. At first, he and his siblings were willing disciples, but as the family descended into madness, Charles discovered that in the Sexton family, crossing his parents meant death.
S4.E5 ∙ Something Wasn't Right
When Reginald Brooks began acting strangely, Beverly Stephens worried that her husband's bizarre behavior was a warning sign that something wasn't right. But she never suspected there was a killer lurking inside him.
S4.E6 ∙ Master Manipulator
When Brian Cargill divorced his wife, Kimberly, he thought it was the end of the worst time of his life. Instead, he found himself in a desperate battle to save his son, Jamie, from her deadly wrath.
S4.E7 ∙ The Grim Reaper
When Linda found out her biological father was her family friend, Greg Scarpa, she was overjoyed. But when the rest of Greg's bloody secrets came out, Linda learned that being part of his family wasn't just dangerous, it was potentially deadly.
S4.E8 ∙ We Looked Happy
Brooke Lehman was raised to believe Kevin Dunlap was her father. Her mother, Stephanie, kept the truth a secret, but neither of them realized that Kevin was keeping other, far more deadly secrets of his own.
S5.E1 ∙ You Know My Brother's Name
When Karen Kuzma was a little girl, she adored her older brother. As they grew older, she saw changes in him that she didn't understand, but it never occurred to her that he was becoming the most infamous serial killer in American history.
S5.E2 ∙ Let Her Rot
When Joshua Hudnall went off to war, he felt more at home in combat than he ever did around his mother. But just when Joshua thought he had escaped her torment, she set her sights on someone else, and destroyed their family from within.
S5.E3 ∙ Evil Undercover
When Lori McLeod fell for a man claiming to be an FBI agent, she felt certain that she would always be safe. Now, as the end of her life draws near, Lori is determined to ensure that the murderer who betrayed her family never becomes a free man.
S5.E4 ∙ Under His Thumb
Jamie Clark had already been twice unlucky in love, so when she met Anthony Lord she thought the third time would be the charm. But by the time she realized what perverted plans he had for her, she was already trapped.
S5.E5 ∙ He's Still My Son
Walter Stawicki always tried to protect his son, Ian, from all the evils in the world. But when Ian became a man, and committed an unspeakable crime, he realized that he had failed to protect him, and their community, from the true threat.
S5.E6 ∙ I Was His First Victim
Felecia Collier almost killed Chester Turner once. At the time, she was relieved to hear that he would survive. But years later, that moment would become the biggest regret of her life. If only she had just killed him.
S5.E7 ∙ Is This the Night I Die
Cindy Best's friends and family all thought she was crazy when she told them her suspicion about her husband, Karl Karlsen. But Cindy was determined to take matters into her own hands and prove her husband was a killer.
S5.E8 ∙ I Hate Being Daddy's Girl
When Robin Lindsey was rescued from her mother's violence and went to live with her father, she thought she had cheated death. She had no way of knowing that the man she looked to as her savior was hiding something even worse.
S5.E9 ∙ I Wish I'd Turned Around
Kat Harris and Marla Kreuger love Lawrence Harris each in her own way; they dismiss his dark obsession as childish and strange, but harmless; neither of them realize he is preparing to sacrifice innocent lives for his evil purpose.
S5.E10 ∙ One of His Women
To the outside world, Aswad Ayinde was a hit music video director. But to his daughter, Aziza Kibibi, he was a repulsive monster who did horrifying things in God's name. After years of suffering, she finally escaped to reveal the truth about him.
S5.E11 ∙ Poisoned by Love
Norma Hawkins grows up fearing her mother, Shirley Allen, but when people start dying, Norma has to find the courage to turn her mother into the police.
S5.E12 ∙ He Was a Good Man to me
When Alvin "Bud" Brown was arrested he told an officer that he was just like Hannibal Lecter. But, to his wife, Jackie, the man she shared a bed with for years appeared to be gentle and loving until the Thanksgiving Day when she discovered the truth.
S5.E13 ∙ My Infamous Brother
This "rerun" episode about serial killer John Wayne Gacy was aired on March 3, 2019, under the alternate title, "My Infamous Brother". It originally aired as installment 5.1 on January 1, 2019 under the title "You Know My Brother's Name".
S6.E1 ∙ I Tried to Prevent This
For 17 years, Kathy Swanson feared her son, Michael, would one day harm someone. For 17 years, she tried in vain to convince people that something about Michael was different until that dreadful day finally came that her worst nightmare came true.
S6.E2 ∙ The Face of My Torturer
William Knorr's mother Theresa always threatened that if she ever went to jail for what she had done, she would take him down with her.
S6.E3 ∙ Our Secret Identity
Pam Jacobs spends her childhood on the run from the law, but she has no idea her father, Charles Sinclair, is a wanted man until the day the FBI catches up with them.
S6.E4 ∙ Until We Meet Again
When James Henslee realizes he is the police's prime suspect, he can't believe it but he attempts to convince them that someone he had once looked up to was the one capable of murder.
S6.E5 ∙ He Knew What He Was
Ronald and Patty had always seen the signs that their older brother, Bernard Eugene Giles, had a darker side, but when Gene finally let loose the monster lurking inside, they couldn't help but wonder how things had gone so wrong.
S6.E6 ∙ They Let Him Out
When Clare Bradburn's ex-husband, Ed, suddenly confesses to his crime after 26 years, she thinks she finally has justice, and that the nightmare she lived for decades would end; she never expects that her nightmare would continue.
S6.E7 ∙ I Have to Do the Right Thing
When Tim Kreider discovered proof that his son, Alec, was responsible for a horrific crime, he knew what the right thing to do was. But his instincts as a father told him something else. How far should a father go to protect his child?
S6.E8 ∙ My Twisted Sister
When Elizabeth Flores was a child, her sister Louise, tried to to shield her from a horrible family secret. But when Louise met David Turpin, that all changed. How did Louise go from running from monsters to becoming one herself?
S7.E1 ∙ It was All Judith
As a child, Corey Breininger's stepmother, Judith Hawkey, coerces him into doing something horrible; he keeps her deadly secret for years, too afraid to tell anyone the truth.
S7.E2 ∙ I Raised a Sociopath
On the day Robert Foust contemplated killing his son, Aaron, he saw it as the only way to prevent him from becoming a murderer. But instead, Robert chose to put himself and his son in God's hands. And God's plan would make him question everything.
S7.E3 ∙ The Night's I Don't Remember
Travis Spencer thinks that cruel pranks played by his older brother, Timothy, were ultimately harmless, but as it turns out older brother Timothy is using younger brother Travis as practice for a gruesome future.
S7.E4 ∙ My Brother Made History
As a boy, Travis Spencer always told himself that the cruel pranks his older brother, Timothy, played on him were ultimately harmless. He never suspected that his brother was using him to practice methods of torture that would be used on others.
S7.E5 ∙ While I Was Gone
Michele Ward's husband, Richard Daniel Starrett, wasn't bothered by her trips home to visit her parents. She never imagined, that he sent her away, to hide his sick perversions.
S7.E6 ∙ I Wished My Son Were Dead
It has been more than 25 years, yet Joyce Alexander is still terrified of her son, William Patrick Alexander; she fears he holds her responsible for his horrifying crime, and is convinced he is plotting his revenge from prison.
S7.E7 ∙ You Have to Get Out
Edward Pehowic harbors dark secrets before he marries Robin Healey, and she'd catch only glimpses of her husband's dark side, but when she finally escapes from him, she realizes just how evil he is.
S7.E8 ∙ I Should Have Killed Him Myself
I Should Have Killed Him Myself: John Duck spends his entire life fearing the day his brother Kevin would finally kill someone, but when John discovers his brother is actually a murder, he still isn't ready to face that Kevin had been born a killer.
S7.E9 ∙ He Almost Got Away with It
Timothy Bass had gotten away with murder for decades, telling his wife that he enjoyed working the night shift to make extra money; Gina believed him until she uncovered his secret and was left wondering what evil her husband had done.
S7.E10 ∙ He Said There Were More of Them
If your father was one of the most prolific serial killers in America, would you see the signs? It never occurred to Shirley Gaskins that the father she adored could be one, but the more people vanished without explanation, the harder it was to deny.
S7.E11 ∙ He Won't Tell Us Why
Richard and Ryan Girgis knew their father, Magdi Girgis, was a cheapskate, prone to violence, and not a particularly good father. But when their family was torn apart, neither wanted to admit deep down that they knew who was behind it.
S7.E12 ∙ The Werewolf Butcher
When Jack "Roy" Spillman started collecting wolf memorabilia, his sisters thought it was just an odd hobby. But when they learned of horrific things he had done, they realized people may have been right when they called him "more animal than human".
S8.E1 ∙ I Killed Dirty John
Not long after Terra Newell met her mother's new boyfriend, she sensed John Meehan was no good. Debra Newell never suspected her new man was secretly plotting to destroy her and her family. And Terra never imagined she would ultimately be forced to kill.
S8.E2 ∙ I Didn't Know It Was Blood
As Christina Hildreth unwittingly helped Shawn Grate clean up his first crime scene, she didn't realize what she was doing. Once police were banging on her door while she was trapped with a madman, she understood the situation was direr than she realized.
S8.E3 ∙ I Don't Believe in Forgiveness
Teri Knight spent weeks driving cross-country, desperately searching for the secret her ex-husband, Manuel Gehring, took to his grave. It took years before a stranger finally solved the mystery that haunted her ever since learning he died in prison.
S8.E4 ∙ Momma Made Me Help
When Shirley Furgala helped her mother, Betty Lou Beets, drag a dead body to the yard and bury it, she knew her own life might be in danger if she refused to help. What Shirley didn't know was this wouldn't be the last time her mother would ask for help.
S8.E5 ∙ The Prom Night Killer
Jessi Toronjo went to a sleepover in 1989 thinking her stepbrother, Jeffrey Pelley, was at his senior prom. She spent the next 13 years believing someone else committed the unspeakable crime of that weekend, only to discover she knew the killer all along.
S8.E6 ∙ My Mother Lies
As a teen, Cindy Taylor's world is shattered by the sudden death of her father; years later, Cindy learns that her own mother is involved in the death.
S8.E7 ∙ My Son Broke My Heart
Bass Webb murdered 2 girlfriends and gets away with it for years. He is caught after being sentenced to jail for spitting on a judge and attempting to run over 2 jail employees the same day he decapitated his second victim although she would not be found for several years.
S8.E8 ∙ They Found Them in Storage
When Wilda Gadd married with Howard Willis, she dismissed the rumors about him. Not until she found herself wearing a wire and risking her life to find dismembered bodies did she finally realize the truth: Howard's secret life was darker than any rumor.
S8.E10 ∙ My Love for My Boy is Unchanged
A more intimate interview with the Keller family surfaces new information. They never suspected the man terrorizing their city could be one of their own. As the Kellers realize their son hides a sinister secret, they must decide whether to turn him in.
S9.E1 ∙ What If He Was Innocent?
Questions persist surrounding Cameron Todd Willingham's conviction and death sentence, but according to Stacy Kuykendall, who knew him better than anyone, Cameron is a monster who was guilty as charged and deserved to die.
S9.E2 ∙ My Son Is Damaged Goods
An extended interview with Gwen Bailey, who married Norman Starnes; she discovered she never really knew him at all; she was his unwilling accomplice.
S9.E3 ∙ I Don't Know Why He Spared Me
Sharon is amazed to be alive after learning about her ex's twisted crimes.
S9.E4 ∙ He Pretends to Be Human
A woman is astounded that she survived her ex-husband's despicable crimes.
S9.E5 ∙ They Said I Killed My Brother
A killer's sister agonizes over whether to protect him or turn him in.
S9.E7 ∙ He Lived a Double Life
When Sonja Holt's fiance, Stafford Shaw, starts staying out late, she initially believes his excuse that he is only working. But when signs begin to appear that he has been lying to her, he attempts to convince her otherwise. Determined to uncover the truth, Sonja never imagines just how far Stafford will go to keep anyone from finding out the truth about him, or the terrible price that will have to be paid when his secret lives finally start to collide.
S9.E8 ∙ To Infinity and Back
When Claire Throssell meets Darren Sykes, she interprets her soon-to-be husband's constant, overwhelming displays of attention and affection as signs of true love. She doesn't realize that Darren's grand gestures are his sinister way of luring her into a false sense of security so that he can control her. Finding herself trapped in the tightening grip of a monster and determined to plot her escape, Claire knows that Darren will stop at nothing to get what he wants, but she doesn't realize just how devastating his retribution will be until he finally takes his revenge.
S9.E9 ∙ My Son Should Die in Prison
Jon Eason hopes every day that someone will murder his son Dylan in prison; Dylan Eason's life sentence without parole doesn't appease his father, who admits wishing for his own son's death is horrible but feels Dylan deserves it for his 2016 crimes.
S9.E10 ∙ He Got Into My Soul
When Christian Fuhr is sentenced to life in prison, Ammie Turos is willing to wait for him, completely convinced the man she loves could not possibly have also been a killer. She remains faithful to him for years, determined to somehow prove his innocence and that he has been wrongly convicted. Then she discovers that the accusations against him are all true, and her conviction is replaced by uncertainty whether her life had also been in danger all along, or if she had just been one woman in Christian's life whom he had not wanted to kill.
S9.E11 ∙ Why Did I Let Him In?
A girl realizes her boyfriend's interest is putting her life at risk.
S9.E12 ∙ He Got Away with Murder
As a child, Daniel Rolle idolizes his father, Donald, but he begins to realize that his father's growing rage and unrelenting cruelty are causing everyone to suffer and ultimately leads to murder,
S9.E13 ∙ My Sister Blamed Me
Cindy Blust loved her sister, Camellia Brown, deeply, but she saw darkness. Cammy became increasingly vengeful, blaming Cindy including the horrible crime she committed. Cindy is certain her sister still blames her for her incarceration.
S10.E6 ∙ He Was My Hero and A Monster
As a child, Daniel Rolle idolizes his father, Donald, and thinks his family is happy, but when things start to go wrong, he begins to realize that his father's growing rage and unrelenting cruelty are causing everyone to suffer. After a childhood spent wrestling with the conflicting emotions of both loving and fearing his own father, when Donald's rage ultimately leads to murder, Daniel finds himself with his father's life in his own hands.
S10.E8 ∙ I Still Love My Daddy
Seven-year-old Deborah Brashers' father, Robert, kills himself in a hotel room, and for 20 years, she struggles to understand why. Neither she - nor the police - have any idea he'd been living a secret double life as a serial killer.
S10.E9 ∙ I Was Warned and Didn't Listen
Jennifer Winter accepts Cristobal Palacio's marriage proposal out of necessity. She believes that he understands that theirs is a marriage of convenience, not love. Then he makes her his prisoner, and she realizes escape will come at a terrible cost.
S10.E10 ∙ He Was Born Evil
Every time Cheri Tate calls the police on her husband Edward Allen Covington, they believe him over her. Then she leaves him, and he takes his revenge - but on others. She realizes in horror that he has done to them what he always wanted to do to her.
S10.E11 ∙ Nobody Believed Me
When Mike was born he was giving up for adoption. But at the age of 7, he would be given a chance to have a family of his own. His adoptive mother introduced him to the man she was planning to marry. Mike was ecstatic at the idea of having a father figure in his life but got a little nervous when he learned that Kevin would be coming home from prison. His mother and grandfather both assured him that Kevin was a good man who deserved a second chance. Kevin and Mike instantly bonded. He taught Mike how to hunt, fish, and ride a bike. But there was a side to Kevin that Mike didn't like, a sadistic side. Occasionally, Mike would witness his father acting out of line, but when he would try to tell other adults no one would believe him. Everyone would tell Mike that he was only exaggerating his stories. But Mike couldn't shake the feeling that he knew his father was a dangerous man who was capable of getting away with murder.
S11.E1 ∙ Locked In The Closet
Two brothers spend the first years of their life locked in a closet by their mother's girlfriend.
S11.E2 ∙ What If He Gets Out?
A vicious cycle of abuse by an older brother ends in tragedy.
S11.E3 ∙ I Will Always Be Scared Of Him
From the moment Deborah Williamson meets her stepson, David Shafer, she feels something unsettling about him, but when her warnings about his frightening behaviour go unheeded, the devastation he ultimately wreaks goes beyond her imagination.
S11.E4 ∙ He Kept Her In A Tree Stump
Sam Christie talks about his father and the evil he survived at the hands of his father. The women in Ernest Christie's life were not as lucky.
S11.E5 ∙ He Was A False Prophet
As a child, Benjamin Risha believes Tony Alamo when he preaches he's a prophet of God. But, as Benjamin grew up, he realizes the prophet's a liar, and he fears for his life, because he sees what happens to others who doubt Tony,
S11.E6 ∙ Keeping My Brother's Secret
When Steven Crittenden confesses to his brother, Bryant, and swears him to secrecy, Bryant faces the toughest decision of his life - whether to keep the secret and risk letting a murderer get away with it, or tell the truth and betray his family.
S11.E7 ∙ She Should Be Left To Die
When police tell Chris Matechen his girlfriend, Alyssa Dayvault, has confessed, he doesn't want to believe it because that means admitting he'd fallen for her lies and spent years blind to the horrific things she did right under his nose.
S11.E8 ∙ Divorce? Never. Murder? Maybe.
Vernon Jensen is so afraid of his wife Vicki and her violent temper that he decides to divorce her. It isn't until he finally leaves that he discovers just how far she'll go to get revenge.
S12.E1 ∙ He Should Have Died Sooner
When George Yzaguirre kills himself in prison, he takes his secrets with him. His ex-wife, Jennifer Meyer, is left to wonder how many of her memories might hold the keys to unsolved crimes and whether or not she'll ever know the truth about him.
S12.E2 ∙ He Tied Me Up, Too
When Linda Bergstrom begins to suspect that her husband James' bondage fetish shifted into something sinister, she can't get anyone to believe her. The more she learns about his behavior, the more she becomes determined to stop her husband.
S12.E3 ∙ Sleeping with the Enemy
When Sarita Anderson begins feeling ill, she thinks it's just the flu at first. She never suspects that the man pretending to love and nurse her back to health is actually the monster responsible -- or that he has done the same thing to countless others.
S12.E4 ∙ A Special Place in Hell
Faith Harris-Green bravely discusses her ex-husband, Gregory Green, and his murder of her four children; 5-year-old Koi Green, 4-year-old Kaleigh Green, 19-year-old Chadney Allen and 17-year-old Kara Allen. Gregory Green fathered the two youngest girls. He had previously served 15 years in prison for killing his first wife, but this was unknown to Faith Harris-Green when she married him. He had told her that he killed his first wife in self-defense, and she had believed him.
S12.E5 ∙ He Pretended to Save Me
Morgan Metzer tearfully discusses her 2021 New Year's Eve attack by her ex-husband, Rodney William Metzer. He was convicted of breaking into Morgan Metzer's home, smothering her with a pillow, threatening her with a handgun and leaving her bound outside in zip tie handcuffs, all while wearing a mask and disguising his voice. After the attack, he staged a "rescue," by changing his clothes, returning to the home, and calling 911. Law enforcement investigators determined that he was actually the one who had assaulted her. Rodney Metzer pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced in August 2021 to 70 years, with the first 25 years in jail and the remaining 45 years on probation.
S12.E6 ∙ I Found His Confession
A murderer's crime is blamed on steroids but his stepbrother knows better.
S13.E1 ∙ I Watched Daddy Bury Mommy
As a 5-year-old child, Lori Keibel does not understand what she sees when her father, Lyle Eugene Keidel, aka Gene Keidel, digs a hole in the yard in the middle of the night. But as she gets older and realizes the truth, she becomes a threat to her father. He will stop at nothing to keep his dark secrets.
S13.E2 ∙ I Made It Out Alive
For years, every time Gabi Blair walked past the freezer, she shuddered at the thought of the horrors hidden inside. She was forced to keep her mother's dark crimes a secret. She prayed that someone would discover the truth before she became her mother's next victim.
S13.E3 ∙ Scratch My Murderous Itch
Eugene Borg knows that Satan has dark, sinister and evil plans for his young son Tyler Catlin Borg. Even as a young child, Tyler veered toward the mischievous. When Tyler was older, he penned death threats against his parents. Eugene spends the subsequent years, especially through Tyler's teenage years, battling the demons he believes plague his child Tyler. A shock comes that proves Eugene may have forever lost the war for his son's soul. On December 22, 2018, Tyler Borg lures Justin Adrian Kiernan to his location, via text messages, and murders him. Justin Kiernan had been having an affair with Caroline, Tyler's wife of three years. Kiernan was her former boyfriend. The text messages that Tyler sent had been sent via Caroline's mobile phone, and they successfully set the death trap for Kiernan. In the end, on September 3, 2021, Tyler was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
S13.E4 ∙ Kill Him, Save Yourself
David Magnano and his stepsister, Jessica, both know that Scott Magnano is a very dangerous man. They both know they would be safer if David were gone. What David doesn't know is how much he will regret not killing Scott Magnano when he had the chance.
S13.E5 ∙ He Called It "The Need"
When Dianne Burns moves across the country to marry Mark Burns in prison, she holds no doubts of her fiance's wrongful conviction until after his release, when she begins to see signs of both his guilt and plans to resume his criminal behavior.
S13.E6 ∙ He Looks Like the Killer on TV
Margie Bult thinks her second husband is too good to be true from the start, but when she sees a fugitive on TV named Paul Steven Mack who resembles him, she vows to uncover the truth no matter the risk to herself.
S13.E7 ∙ Fantasizing and Hunting
When Michael O'Leary moves in with his brother, Marc O'Leary , Michael doesn't realize that Marc has already fled the police in one state and committed crimes in another state until police finally track them down. Because Michael shared a house with Marc, he knew that his brother had some odd behaviors, but he never thought that his brother was capable of being a serial rapist.
S13.E8 ∙ The Hole in the Backyard
St. Paul, Minnesota: When a deep hole appears in the backyard, Delila Yang gets suspicious. She knows that her mother, Karina See Her, dug the hole in the ground, and she knows that her beloved 50-year-old step-father, Mr. Kou Yang went missing as of July 2021, but Delila doesn't yet realize that she and her sister Mailine Yang must work with police to trap her mother and unearth her mother's sinister secrets. In the end, when detectives move the garden shed and have the hole excavated, they find the body of Kou Yang. An autopsy revealed that Yang had been shot twice in the back of his head. His ex-wife, Karina See Her, a mother of six children, is convicted of his murder and sentenced in March 2022 to nearly 22 years in prison.
S13.E9 ∙ From Hollywood to Hell
A promising and handsome actor, Thom Bierdz, scores big with a hit TV show, the soap opera 'The Young and the Restless.' So, Thom spreads his good fortune by inviting his volatile younger teenaged brother, Troy Bierdz, to live with him in California. Troy leads a troubled life and on July 14, 1989, his threats become real when he kills his mother, Phyllis Bierdz. Troy is convicted and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years. After Troy had been in prison for a decade, Thom Bierdz forgave his brother for the murder of their mother. This gracious act on Thom's part helped Thom to heal, also.
S13.E10 ∙ Ménage à Terror
Genie already knows Lee Cawthon is capable of doing horrible things when he forces her into a polygamous relationship. She plays along with his twisted demands but does not realize that the consequences of letting him have his way might be worse than objecting to his desires.
S13.E11 ∙ Sisters in Silence
William Cosden, Jr. coerced his much younger sisters, Karen and Susan, into keeping secrets about what he did. Now that the girls are adults, and with one of them facing death, the sisters reunite to try to repair the trauma that keeping those secrets caused both of them.
