Small Town Murder

This week, in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, a couple with a very happy, and seemingly perfect life, unknowingly has a plan set in motion against them. This plan is formed by a jealous friend, who wants to live their life, so the plan is to kidnap, and murder these people. The results are absolutely brutal, imaginative horror movie type of killings that leave everyone in the area very shook up...

This week, in Vaughan, Mississippi, a well known, and liked family, who appear to have a multi generational death curse, just disappears. This prompts hundreds of law enforcement officers to search for miles around, and has locals on the edge of their seats. When they do find a suspect, the motive is definitely not worth this kind of carnage, but sometimes a little thing can send family against fa...

This week, in Ramsey, New Jersey, a woman hears her boyfriend being murdered, over the phone, but by the time police get to him, it's too late. The focus lands on a family member of an ex, but that man says that he couldn't possibly have committed this murder... because he was "too fat to murder"! This gets even crazier at trial, including lying family members, wiretaps, insane internet searches....

This week, in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, a terribly bloody, and awful murder scene is found in a home's finished basement. A very inefficient murder weapon is found, under the body, and detectives believe everyone was home when it happened. We find out that this has been a troubled household for a long time, and detectives try to decide whether a blood thirsty drug dealer, a random hook up, or the ch...

This week, in Cameron, Missouri, an angry man, upset by his wife leaving him, and moving into a trailer with another man, decides he needs a plan. At first, his plan is to win back the heart of his true love, but it quickly becomes a plan involving a shotgun, and a single wide trailer. This all spills out into a neighboring trailer, where another violent showdown occurs. This is just a wild, blood...

This week, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, police receive several letters, and a 2 hour audio tape, from what appears to be a serial killer. He claims at least 6 murders, and several fires, and police start to put together that he may be telling the truth. This is confirmed, when bodies are found in different locations. But is he lying about some other murders, or is he actually hiding even more? A...

This week, in Whitewood, South Dakota, a crumbling relationship is certainly not helped by a five year affair, but everything looks like it will work out just fine. Until, one night, when one of the pair is left with a gaping chest wound, and the other is left with quite a tale to tell. Including a wild night, complete with hot tub violence. Was it self defense, or a cold blooded, premeditated mur...

This week, in Lothian, Maryland, what appears to a horrifically bloody, but pretty standard murder/suicide, until some very strange evidence comes to light, followed by some kinky evidence... Then, text messages that blow the lid off the entire plot. A cruel, disturbing & calculating plan begins to emerge. One that manipulates some very vulnerable people, and ends up with a double murder, and thre...

This week, in Trail Creek, Indiana, an unhappy woman uses her teenage sons as her her personal murder squad, forcing them to kill both their father, and grandmother. They almost get away with it, too, considering they almost did a perfect job of disposing of grandma, using everything from a chainsaw, to a deep fat fryer to try get rid of the body. Where they finally end up getting rid of the remai...

This week, in West Wendover, Nevada, a smart, popular high school student vanishes into thin air, and a huge team of volunteers begin to look for her. When she's found, the scene is so terrible, that even the most seasoned detectives have nightmares. As the case unravels, police wonder why this happened, and think her ex-boyfriend is the culprit... but did he do it alone?? These questions haunt ev...

This week, in Salem, New Hampshire, three drifting young men decide to murder some young women, after extensive viewings of the movie "Scream", and a healthy binging of meth & booze. Their plan turns out to be tragically successful, after luring two teenagers to the local hangout spot, and committing some unforgivably brutal acts. Will they make a clean escape, or end up huddled in the attic of a...

This week, in Caledon, Ontario, Canada, an odd man, who is described as a loner, with a foul odor, closes his antique shop, to spend his time living in an attic, when he's not living in the woods. He also finds time to go on a crime spree that earns him several nicknames. A nice couple ends up dead, and the police race against time to try to find him, after he's kidnaped several women, and may be...

This week, in McLoud, Oklahoma, easily the strangest murder that we've ever covered occurs, when a biker & his step son decide to get together, to drink copious amounts of booze, and hang out, even though they're currently in the middle of a war of words, over several disagreements. First of all, does the step son owe thousands of dollars in trailer rent? Also, whether the stepson, and his mother,...

This week, in Brandenburg, Kentucky, a very strange tale unfolds, when a young woman takes a walk down the street, and disappears. When she is found, murdered horribly, attention immediately focuses on her boyfriend, and his best friend, who claim they were just drinking beer, and searching the trailer for a missing snake. This turns into massive, and epic tale, complete with a detective, going to...

This week, in Niantic, Connecticut, a swinging couple leads a very normal life, to the outside world, but definitely gets freaky on the weekends. While the husband is away on a fishing trip, the wife is horribly murdered, leaving a dark, nasty crime scene. The case goes cold until some new evidence comes to light, leading police to use some shaky science to try to figure out how the husband could...

This week, in Hope, Alaska, seemingly every man in the state is after one young lady. A transplant, from New Orleans, by way of an attempted New York modeling career, who is currently the star dancer at the biggest strip club in town. At one point, she's engaged to at least 3 men, at once. This all leads to a horrible, and inevitable murder, with a very specific weapon, making it easier to narrow...

This week, in Vinings, Georgia, screams are heard through a small apartment building, leading to several emergency calls being made, including one where the dispatcher can only hear faint moaning. Detectives arrive to find a terribly murdered woman, and a very helpful neighbor. During the investigation, a fire engulfs the building, destroying much of the evidence, except a "sex book" that they thi...

This week, in Andover, Minnesota, a seemingly small family squabble, snowballs into what can definitely be described as a powder keg of anger. A plan is made, and it's a brutal one, involving a crossbow, sledgehammer, heavy hammers, a baseball bat, and a car. All of which had been spray painted black, and eventually left at the murder scene. A giant bonfire ends up revealing all the terrible truth...

This week, in Kankakee, Illinois, a phone call from the police, telling a man that there's been a burglary at one of his properties send him out of the house in the middle of the night. The next call that comes to the house will be a ransom call, demanding $1 million for the man's safe return. These kidnappers also tell the family that the kidnapped man is being kept in a box, buried in the ground...

This week, in Murdock, Nebraska, a horrible & bloody scene is discovered, in a rural farmhouse. The victims are pillars of the community, with no known enemies, so police turn their attention to a nephew, who had a minor disagreement with the couple, and they even get a confession. But... was it true? Was any of it true, or is it all made up? And if it isn't true, then there are some sick people o...

This week, in New Port Richey, Florida, a small town girl, with a police officer husband decides to get into porn, to support the family. While on the set of a very aptly named film, she falls in love with a costar. A sort of British ex-Marine, who is also a club DJ. Let's just say that they're into some weird stuff. Weird stuff, like brutally killing someone, because it sexually excites them to m...

This week, in Muscatine, Iowa, a man's unhinged, and horribly graphic murder fantasies are discovered in a notebook, making him the prime suspect in what police originally believed to be a murder/suicide of two women, who seemed to be romantic rivals for the man's affections. The whole thing is a mysterious head scratcher, complete with a suicide note, that might not be a suicide note, and a blind...

This week, in Butte, Montana, a long standing beef between residents of a small apartment building seems to cool off, when all the neighbors have an unhinged afternoon. drinking party of epic proportions. The problem is that eventually these issues come to the surface, resulting in a most brutal murder, and a chaotic scene, complete with brawling, knife swinging, death threats, a ton of whiskey, a...

This week, in Logan, Ohio, we take our 2nd trip to this town, because we found another insane murder! Two local young people, looking forward to marriage, walk off, and end up missing. When they're found, it horrifies even the most hardened detectives. Body parts, scattered around a cornfield, with horrible mutilations to both victims. A perverted stepfather is put on death row, and looks very gui...

This week, in Monterey, Tennessee, a man who may have the worst job in the United States, also has a family beef, over a fence that his brother has erected, across the man's driveway. This ends up in one of the craziest days imaginable, complete with some of the most cold blooded murder that we've ever heard of, a blazing fire to cover it up, and finally, a proclamation that he "will never be take...