Small Town Murder

This week, in Emporia, Kansas, relationships spin out of control between two couples, resulting two different brutal murders, committed in totally different ways, by a most unliekly pair of killers. The cast of characters includes a Pastor, an Army Sergeant turned "medical technologist", a math professor, the "lady of the town", a pair of strange brothers that includes a welder/hair dresser, and a whole cast of confused detectives,...

This week, in Montgomery, Minnesota, when a man is horribly murdered, while sleeping in his own living room, detectives think someone must've been out to get him. That is, until they start to look at the evidence, and realize that whoever the killer is, they were inside the house. This leads to an unlikely confession, and something even stranger; absolutely zero regrets. As a matter of fact, the killer is happy with what he's done,...

This week, in Cranston, Rhode Island, a man threatening to jump off a bridge while wearing a tuxedo, leads to a disturbing crime scene, with the victim seemingly killed in 3 different ways. This horrible killing apparently happened while an elderly neighbor looked on in horror. Detectives & prosecutors are left to untangle a complicated relationship, and a whole lot of psychological records, in an effort to convict a very contr...

This week, in Congress, Arizona, a very disturbed man, from a crazy background moves into a desert area, from out of town. He makes some friends, but his weirdness, and severe bouts of drunkeness seem to keep the other desert dwellers on their toes. After one of the residents is killed in her trailer, a bumbling, and inept initial investigation ruins key evidence, and almost screws up the whole case. Luckily, the disturbed newcomer...

This week, in Gulfport, Mississippi, it's a race to find a woman, who was snatched from her home, before it's too late! All while her husband takes ransom calls, and the police set up roadblocks. But will any of it matter? Or, will this seemingly bloodthirsty kidnapper jump right to murder, if he gets impatient? In the end, a brutal murder takes place. And the killer is complete riddle, with his claimed genius IQ, wild past, and wh...

This week, in Post Falls, Idaho, the seemingly random murder of a family man, while out on the job, seems much less random, when his wife is also killed, just a couple short years later. This leads to a variety of suspects, including the murdered man's brother, and even the couple's own son. But when a man is caught for a completely unrelated murder, he has a story to tell, that clears up all questions. This story also proves that ...

This week, in Acme, Washington, a young woman vanishes while on a jog, on her very rural road. When she's found, brutalized & very dead, it's clear that there's a very sick person in the area, even prompting the police to look into the Green River Killer. Despite several suspects, detectives have nothing to go on, except hunches, and some DNA that they can't seem to match to anyone. Then, two women having a seemingly casual con...

This week, in Easton, Pennsylvania, a love triangle turns into a love square. Then, maybe even a pentagram. This causes all manner of trouble amongst the relationships of these young adults. When one of them is terribly murdered, it's up to detectives to unravel the mess of the relationships, to try to figure out which one of this group ended up taking the murderous way out. While one of the suspects denies everything, their accomp...

This week, in Palos Park, Illinois, when a woman, with a high powered husband is found horribly murdered, there seems to be no clues for detectives to go on. The reason ends up being that they weren't looking very hard. As a matter of fact, they were trying not to solve it. This all comes to the surface, when a huge cabal of police, mafia members, and one particular attorney is outed for their corruption, including brothels, briber...

This week, in Emerson, Nebraska, a young boy shows up at school, telling his teacher that his father is dead, and "Black Cat" killed him. This sends police looking for the dad, only to find a puddle of blood & one boot, in his driveway. Luckily, the man has cameras around his house that give police some clues, that eventually lead to an abandonded farm house & finding an arm & a leg, in a car trunk. From there, detectiv...

This week, in Seaside, Oregon, the terrible & senseless murders of two locals makes this small, beachside tourist town freak out. Luckily, one of the killers decides to tell everyone he knows about these murders, even bragging about about how it was "just for the hell of it", and how it was just like a certain movie that he was obsessed with. But when police go to arrest these cold blooded killers, they're nowhere to be found, ...

This week, in Coward, South Carolina, a divorced couple can't seem to stop fighting, with the wife constantly stalking the ex-husband, and even severely beating him with a large stick that's used to check a large truck's tire pressure. When this man disappears, everyone assumes that his ex had something to do with it, but it seems like it may be "no body, no crime". Until one day, when a man recovers what he thinks is a pumpkin, wr...

This week, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a wild & scary scene unfolds when a jealous boyfriend shows up at his ex's new boyfriend's trailer, with a gun in each hand. This leads to cold blooded murder, and a race for detectives to find this killer, and his now kidnapped ex, hopefully still alive. But this killer doesn't want to be caught, and he even plays a particular song, over & over, to show his unwillingness to go down w...

This week, in Lafayette, California, a high powered defense attorney comes home to find his wife has been butchered, in their living room. It becomes even crazier when police notice a specific symbol, carved into the victim. Detectives think this may be someone who is angry with the attorney husband, or that the killer may even be the husband, himself. But they end up focusing the investigation on the neighborhood troubled goth tee...

This week, in Kibler, Arkansas, when a young man seemingly disappears into thin air, his wife heads to the police station, and gets a detective to help her look for him. They also disappear. This sends detectives scrambling into these vortex of missing people, only to discover 3 bodies, but not the original man that they were looking for. Eventually, 4 people are all found horribly murdered, by an obviously cold blooded killer. But...

This week, in Harrington, Delaware, the discovery of a couple who have been stabbed over 70 times each, in their own living room sends this small community into a spiral of fear. But luckily for detectives, these killers haven't done much to cover their tracks. One of the murderers leaves the bloody sword, used in the murders, right in his kitchen. These murders are so brutal, that the only question remaining is, will these killers...

This week, in Whitewater, Colorado, a horribly murdered man sparks an investigation that shows that someone may have been after him for a while, even trying to blow up his car, weeks before his death. But a threatening note to his widow, claiming "you're next" blows the case wide open, leading to a treasure trove of evidence. The suspect turns out to be the last person that the dead man would've expected, and it also turns out that...

This week, in Highmore, South Dakota, when a farm couple has problems, the wife begins to tell people that if anything ever happens to her, her husband will be the one who does it. When the husband comes home from an errand, one day, he finds his wife in a bloody heap, at the bottom of the basement stairs. He claims it's a tragic, and terrible accident, but the autopsy shows something much some sinister than a fall. It shows that s...

This week, in Burlington, North Carolina, a woman grows up in a life, filled with tragedy, and horrors. As an adult, every person she knows seems to die in unfortunate ways, and ahead of their time. The list includes her father, her mother in law, multiple husbands, a nice lady from work, and the guy who cuts meat at the grocery store, to name a few. But when her 3rd husband is has a mystery illness, that only seems to get worse, d...