Small Town Murder

This week, in Hensley, West Virginia, it's a strange day up in the hills, as a man gets so angry, that he needs to fire off his shotgun, in the trailer's front yard, before noon. This day gets even crazier with weird daytime hill party, getting punched by his daughter, and a whole lot of drinking. By the end of the day, someone has been killed in a quite imaginative way, leaving not much left behi...

This week, in Denville, New Jersey, the two friendliest people in town just happen to be married to each other, but when that marriage starts to crumble, things start to get nasty & personal. But when the wife is found, stabbed an almost uncountable number of times, and has a rubber pig mask, placed over her face, the the whole investigation gets weird. Was it the husband, looking for revenge, or...

This week, in Booneville, Mississippi, a beloved young woman, in her first two months of college, has it all going for her. Friends, school, activities, and even a boyfriend. But it all comes to a screeching halt when she is found, brutalized in her dorm room. The window is open, the screen has been cut, and it looks like there may be a murderous sexual predator on the loose. After narrowing the s...

This week, in Jenks, Oklahoma, where a woman heads to Wal-Mart at two in the morning, then disappears into thin air, leaving her car, on the side of the road, with a flat tire. When the sun comes up, she is found, battered, in the weeds, far from the road. What appears to be a tragic accident, quickly turns into a dirty story about lust, greed, sex, dishonesty, and an absolutely cold blooded killi...

This week, in Llanfair, Wales, United Kingdom, the horrible discovery of local woman, with her heart wrapped in newspaper, and placed in a saucepan of blood, atop a silver platter, and several other strange arrangements of candlesticks, and fireplace pokers cause the whole area to freak out, and tell tales of strange vans, driving around. But what is discovered is much weirder. A local boy, with a...

This week, in Cynthiana, Indiana, a rather routine investigation of a minor crime leads detectives to try to track down a woman, who turns out to be missing. When her boyfriend is tracked down, he blames her husband. But the boyfriend's dark, violent past make him a suspect. What police find out begins to shock even the seasoned detectives, as they begin to recover body parts from multiple countie...

This week, in Leonardtown, Maryland, when neighbors notice that their Army general friend hasn't taken his flag inside, for a couple of nights, they grow suspicious, and they are incredibly surprised to hear that he's been horribly murdered. They're even more surprised when. they find out secrets about the dead man's life, that they couldn't have imagined. Everything they thought was true, turns o...

This week, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, a happy go lucky world is turned upside down, when a local mother gets a phone call, telling her that her 19 year old son has been kidnapped, and only a large ransom can save him. When the the person collecting the ransom is caught, he has several tales, that no one believes. Was the kidnapped man in on the scheme? Is he alive, and hiding? Or, has he been horr...

This week, in Grayson, Kentucky, a troubled man with a rough history, gets out of prison, finds a girlfriend, and gets wasted. He drinks, smokes, and even takes horse tranquilizers, while surrounding himself with a not very wholesome group of people. One, night, he loses his mind, and tries to cook strange foods, trashes his mother's house, and threatens to kill his brother, but ends up doing far...

This week, in Odessa, Texas, a very different kind of young lady struggles to keep her sanity, in west Texas, while exploring all that the local boys have to offer. She intentionally tries to shock the people she considers "the squares", by her dress, and actions. Seemingly out of nowhere, she decides that she wants to die, and asks everyone that she knows to help her, by killing her. When she com...

This week, in Bernardo, New Mexico, a strange trio, including a married teenage girl set out to have some fun, and decide that the best way to do that would be to find someone, walking, and "scare the hell out of them" with an array of weapons. What follows is as unnecessary as it is violent, treacherous, simply evil. They almost get away with it, but mouths can't help but run. We end up with the...

This week, in Elk Grove, Illinois, a simple stolen car leads to the discovery of an entire family, slaughtered, in their home. Shot, beaten, and tortured, with the heat turned up to 97 degrees, it's obvious that someone had it in for these people. But who? Business partners? People in the local CB club? The mafia? Anything is possible, until a tip is called in to the police, revealing the stranges...

This week, in Eyota, Minnesota, a group of young, drifting restaurant workers form what they call a "family". All of this around a guy they call the "High Priest", who leads this little group, in both physical aggression, and some sort of alleged dark powers. This all comes together on Halloween weekend, following the gifting of deadly knife, and a near murder, or two. By the conclusion of the nig...

This week, in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, when a woman is found, beyond murdered, the only suspect appears to be her mother in law, a physically weak older woman, who has been in and out of mental hospitals for years. But could she have actually done all the horrible things that have happened? When another suspect emerges, the detectives begin to fight each other, over the differing theories. It tur...

This week, in Albia, Iowa, a hard drinking pair of distant cousins drink themselves silly, for an entire day, then decide to pick up an ex-girlfriend, and keep the party going. But when the ex-girlfriend turns her affections toward the wrong cousin, the two men take a ride, to discuss their issue. Next thing you know, someone is bleeding out, and a multi county manhunt starts! The excuses for the...

This week, in Donalsonville, Georgia, a strange group of dangerous people escape from a work camp, and end up on a rural farm, looking for gas & money to head to Mexico, in order to "live the good life". Instead, they come upon a large, hardworking, church going, teetotaling farm family, and what happens is as cold blooded, systematic, and heartless a slaughter, as this area has ever seen. Complet...

This week, in Alvo, Nebraska, when a home is found, engulfed in flames, everyone thinks that the couple who lived there must be burned to cinders. But when only one of them is found, wrapped in a blanket, and mutilated, beyond reason, a search is on for an answer. The answer isn't very difficult to find because the killer fully admits to what he's done, but has a very unique excuse, involving the...

This week, in Framingham, Massachusetts, an upstanding, successful suburban couple appear to have it all. Great jobs, money in the bank, and a beautiful home, in a safe, leafy neighborhood. They appear to be on top of the world, until one night, the combination of burnt baked ziti, and an apparent invasion of body swapping enemy space alien vampires, who need to be thwarted, cause chaos to reign i...

This week, in Shawnee Township, Ohio, a strange relationship exists between two older brothers, who live together, and seem to have an ongoing feud. One has a history of arrests for violence, and the other has a history of being hospitalized for mental illness. Perhaps inevitably, this ends in a most horrific, and violent murder, leaving one of the brothers full of holes, with a rope around his wr...

This week, in Davie, Florida, A night of watching the family's favorite tv show turns into a terrorizing ordeal, involving knives, guns, and a man who is wearing a ninja mask & a straw cowboy hat. This is all unspeakable horror & violence, but it gets even worse when we find out who the killer is, and what their past looks like. Turns out, he has done something even worse, in his past, and all see...

This week, in Lemmon Valley, Nevada, when a teenage girl is last seen, riding into the hills on horseback, no one knows what could have happened. No one, except either her stepfather, or maybe two hillbillies, living in a makeshift shack, with crude drawings of dead girls, and women made out of electrical tape. Things quickly unravel, when ripped up pieces of paper are reconstructed by detectives...

This week, in Mio, Michigan, two long time friends head out from Detroit, to a hunting cabin, deep in the north woods, for weekend of beer drinking, and sitting in the woods. Along the way, they get lost, and end up in several very small town bars, drinking, and angering some locals. When the pair disappear of the face of the earth, police have no clue what happened to them, until a tale of a set...

This week, in Sanford, Maine, when a neighborhood girl disappears, then is found, half in a river, covered in sticks & leaves, police interview over one hundred people, in the hopes of getting some kind of clue that may lead them to the killer. Attention quickly focuses on a neighborhood teenager, with a creepy history, a love for girls that wear purple, and a real penchant for Satan, and anything...

This week, in Tillamook, Oregon, a father surprises his loving & upstanding family with a trip, up the Oregon coast, for a couple of days. This sounds great, until everyone comes up missing. Four of the five family members are found, deep in a National Forest area, but police & FBI don't know if Dad is a victim, or a terribly cold blooded murderer! A nationwide manhunt leads authorities everywhere...

This week, in Ashdown, Arkansas, a strange night unfolds, from what seems like a typical Friday night of fish stick eating, and drinking at the local bar, for a mother & teenage son, living in a Texarkana area trailer. The son, a 17 year old dropout, turned welder comes home to a bloody scene, that looks like it's straight out of a horror movie. The police think they have their man, with a married...