Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death

This true-crime documentary examines how the emotional impact of a homicide resonates with the victim's loved ones long after the crime is committed.

Genre: Documentary, Crime

Cast:Connor Holden , Robbie Berson , Maggie Seymour , Pam Schultz , Tim Zins , Randy Leaf , Matt Gulbranson , Shiloh Lewis , Brenda Dettrey , Casey Bradley , Justin M. Tolliver , Kerry Mosier , Kerry Britt , Mason Cufari , Tim Halvorsen , Adriana Medina , Michelle Rae , Bill Palmer

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Truth, Lies and Redemption

Fri, Mar 18, 2022

Truth, Lies and Redemption: In 1988, a man is released from jail after a judge deems his murder confession false. For 25 years, a family's hope for justice fades, as the killer walks the streets. But one tenacious detective refuses to let this cold case go.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Path

Thu, Nov 5, 2020

A detective investigates unsolved murders that all have a common thread.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Ride Along

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

In 1993, an officer dies from a gunshot during a routine traffic stop in Manhattan Beach, California. A 12-year-old boy was on the scene during the crime, but he's too terrified to tell the police what he witnessed.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Buried Dreams

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

In 2007 in Bethany, Oklahoma, a young pregnant woman goes missing. Police desperately try to retrace her last steps, and unearth more than just the secrets she harbored.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Lost Highway

Thu, Dec 3, 2020

A woman dies of an apparent hit-and-run, but the truth is far more twisted.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ We Found Bonnie

Thu, Dec 10, 2020

A mother is missing, and police believe her toddler son watched it unfold.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Girl in the Photo

Sun, Apr 11, 2021

In 1995, a beloved mother is found raped and murdered in the accounting office where she works. The bloody body of her young daughter is nearby. But as police photograph the scene, they get the shock of their careers

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Bathtub

Sun, Apr 18, 2021

In 2000, in South Barrington, Illinois, a rookie cop responds to the scene of what many believe to be the site of an accidental drowning. But for that cop, something about it doesn't sit quite right. It's a hunch that, 10 years later, he still hasn't forgotten.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ I Forgive You

Sun, Apr 25, 2021

In 2003, a young man in Georgia shoots his father in the head sixteen times. Days later, the body of a nun is found on the side of a Virginia road. The story behind these two crimes haunts those involved to this day.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Lake House

Sun, May 2, 2021

In 1980, in Radford, Virginia, college freshman Gina Hall goes out dancing and never returns. Police follow her trail to a mysterious lake house, but where she goes from there is a mystery that has endured for 40 years.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Mother-To-Be

Sun, May 9, 2021

In 2003 in Burlington, North Carolina, pregnant April Greer vanishes. Her boyfriend says she left him, and her family is worried sick. No one knows that the unbearable truth about what really happened to April is the stuff of nightmares

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Monster

Sun, May 16, 2021

JT Armstead has feared his mom, Lovetta Armstead's husband Gary Green ever since she first brought him home. There is never any love with him - only the need to dominate Lovetta and her three children. JT watches and endures the violence against them for a year as it escalates, until one day, Gary Green commits unspeakable acts from which no one will recover.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Do No Harm

Sun, May 23, 2021

For two years, in Dallas, Texas, surgical patients fall victim to Christopher Duntsch, a monster with a scalpel and a medical degree. Dallas Assistant District Attorney Michelle Shughart isn't sure what to think when she is first approached with the case. Is this medical malpractice? Or an evil man with a scalpel? As she dives into the case, she is shocked to learn the volume of Duntsch's patients with bad outcomes. She quickly realizes this is much more than a doctor having a bad day.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Mother's Day Murder

Sun, May 30, 2021

In 2011, Mother's Day looks a little different this year for high school freshman Tony Gana. His mother, Annamaria Gana, is battling stage 2 breast cancer. She says she's fine, but Tony can tell the medicine and the chemo is taking its toll. Officer Todd Hylton is called to the scene of an alleged shooting. Just moments earlier, the caller told dispatch that his mom shot him.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Mother's Day Nightmare

Wed, Aug 4, 2021

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1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ They Killed My Mom

Sun, Apr 10, 2022

When an Idaho woman dies of a suspected drug overdose in 1999, the case seems open and shut until her 3-year-old daughter gives a chilling statement to police. Now, that daughter wants to know why it took the police so long to believe her. This installment is a follow up to the Evil Lives Here installment "Divorce? Never. Murder? Maybe." from Season 11, involving the associates of murder victim Aleta Diane Ray, aka Diane Ray, giving their accounts of Diane and how the crime affected them. In a rare format scenario, it also showcases a long-awaited meeting between Verne Jensen and Diane's daughter Jade Scotton, seen briefly at the end of the Evil Lives Here installment through video feed, whom Verne has not seen in twenty-two years since she was three years old.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ A Double Life

Sun, Apr 17, 2022

In rural Missouri, the body of a young woman lies dead on a deserted road only days before her wedding; while investigating her death, police uncover surprising secrets in her fiancés life.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Paper Route

Sun, Apr 24, 2022

In Binghamton, New York, twelve-year-old Cheri Lindsey disappears while delivering newspapers alone. The investigation leads to a discovery neither her family nor law enforcement anticipated.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ No Promise for Tomorrow

Sun, May 1, 2022

In Birmingham, Alabama, a landlord approaches his rental home to inspect a broken window when he suddenly hears a crying baby. What he discovers inside will haunt two families for the rest of their lives. The baby is discovered alone. His mother, Candace Brown, is missing. After her body is discovered in the mountains, the case leads to the killer Michael Jeffrey Land.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Only Witness

Sun, May 8, 2022

After a savage beating that nearly kills Judy Chandler, she learns her attacker also murdered her two children. Omaha, Nebraska investigators launch a relentless search for the killer and quickly realize their most crucial clue might die with their victim.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Lookout

Sun, May 15, 2022

The murders of two teen girls at a remote and scenic lookout point seem random until police uncover a web of secrets among their network of friends.

0Season 4

S4.E0 ∙ The Dark Road

Sun, Sep 11, 2022

On October 5, 1996, a college student at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, Berry Alexis Bryant, age 18, leaves a dorm party and gets a ride from the wrong classmate, vanishing into the night. An investigation by law enforcement led the police to Berry's body about 16 miles outside of Powell. It appeared that she had been in an vicious struggle with her attacker. Further investigation revealed that at the dormitory party, there was another teenager, 19-year-old Levi Collen who was interested in Berry. Investigators work this lead to find their suspect. In November 1996, Levi was convicted of first-degree murder, sexual assault and kidnapping. As a result, he was handed down three consecutive life sentences.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ No Body

Sun, Sep 4, 2022

In 2005, Tracey Leigh Tetso fails to show up at a Motley Crue concert and is never seen again. Her husband, Dennis Joseph Tetso, was convicted of her 2nd degree murder in 2010 and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Her body is still missing.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Graveyard Shift

Sun, Sep 25, 2022

The 1993 murder of a police officer during a post-Christmas traffic stop stuns his fellow Manhattan Beach, California, officers, they are even more shocked that the only witness is a twelve-year-old boy.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ What He Took Away

Sun, Sep 18, 2022

In 2016, a prosecutor must make an attempt to untangle the facts from fiction when the perpetrator of a brutal shooting that year claims that there is no randomness to his murders.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ 360 Degrees of Terror

Sun, Oct 2, 2022

In 2017, a young couple's hope for a happily-ever-after ends in bloodshed, leaving two grandmothers to make sense of unbearable horror and grief.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Free to Kill Again

Sun, Oct 16, 2022

In 2021, when 33-year-old Erika Verdecia goes missing, her family launches their own search for her. What their homegrown investigation uncovers is a tragic trail of bloodshed, 36 years in the making.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Devil in Disguise

Sun, Oct 9, 2022

Lisa Reeves wasn't looking for love when she met Randy Gwathney -- what she got, instead, was bloodshed.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ In Mother's Garden

Tue, Apr 18, 2023

From 2003-2004, serial killer Larry Dean Bright murders at least 8 Black female sex workers in the area of Peoria, Illinois. He is caught, convicted and sentenced to life. The family members of the victims share their stories of heartache.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ The Wicked Pair

Tue, Apr 25, 2023

When five people vanish in 1993, law enforcement detectives have no leads. Seven years later, someone connected to the case starts to talk.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Evil Twin

Tue, May 2, 2023

In 1995, a 14-year-old girl, Kristy Lynn Ohnstad, goes missing from her home in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Bellingham, Washington. She had been a student at Fairhaven Middle School. Located in Whatcom County, Bellingham is a scenic spot near the border between the USA and Canada. Law enforcement detectives begin their investigation of the missing girl, and uncover a grim family secret. In the end, her killer, Clark Richard Elmore, also known as James Lee Dickey and other aliases, turned himself in to the police. Clark Elmore had been the boyfriend of Kristy's mother. On March 12, 1996, Clark Elmore was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Kristy Ohnstad. However, in 2016, a statewide moratorium on the death penalty was put in place so his execution has been delayed indefinitely. Appearing on this show was Mark Elmore, who is the fraternal twin brother of Clark Elmore. He shared his story of grief and heartache over Kristy's death. He does not understand how his brother could have carried out this sinister crime. Mark Elmore wanted to speak out with the hopes that he may be able to save somebody's else's life if people hear his story and talk to their children.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Killing of Two Spirits

Tue, May 9, 2023

In June 2001, in Cortez, Colorado, the violent murder of a homosexual Native American Navajo teenager, sixteen-year-old Fred Martinez, Jr., means two spirits die with him. In Navajo culture, the belief is that to maintain harmony, there must be a balanced interrelationship between the feminine and the masculine spirits within the individual. So, both the male and the female spirits within the teenager have died. The Navajo word for "two-spirit" is Nadleehi. In the end, the killer was Shaun Murphy, age 18. He was a gang member and a drug dealer. The actual motive for the murder was never disclosed by Murphy, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2002. However, in 2018 he was released early and put on parole, having served approximately 16 years in prison. At the time of the murder, Shaun's best friend was Clint Sanchez. Due to the fact that he helped Shaun to dispose of bloody clothing evidence, he was convicted of 'accessory after the fact' and sentenced to 36 months probation. Appearing on the show were Fred's mother Pauline Mitchell and Fred's best friend Robin Billings. They shared their stories of grief and heartache over losing Fred. Also appearing on the show was Clint Sanchez. Sanchez said that he is working to better his life, having given up drugs and fighting. Shaun Murphy was invited to appear on the show, but he declined.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ City of Angels

Tue, May 16, 2023

Los Angeles, California, 2014: For 6 months, career criminal turned serial killer Alexander Hernandez, born May 12, 1980, shoots 16 innocent people, killing 5 of them. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no parole.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Satan Walking

Tue, May 23, 2023

Conroe, Texas: On September 12, 1995, 12-year-old Samuel McKay Everett was kidnapped, tortured and killed by "family friend" Hilton Lewis Crawford, age 56, who was hoping to extract a $500,000 ransom from McKay's parents. Crawford was indicted, convicted and sentenced to death. Hilton Lewis Crawford, now age 64, was executed by lethal injection on July 2, 2003 in Huntsville, Texas.