About this season
A true-crime series that examines the story of sadistic and meticulous killers who plan their victims’ murders for weeks, months or even years. Each stand-alone episode is brought to life through a tapestry of firsthand interviews with investigators and those close to the victim. Over the course of the hour, we’ll follow detectives on a winding investigation.
Episodes (10)
1. Killing for Custody
Aired 8 March 2026 • 43 min
When police respond to a domestic disturbance, it's unclear who on scene was the intended victim
2. Killer Competition
Aired 15 March 2026 • 43 min
A teacher and coach is gunned down on the street, leaving his students and fiancée shattered.
3. Deadly Desire
Aired 22 March 2026 • 43 min
When a young mother and her newborn daughter vanish from Austin, detectives and FBI agents rush in to bring them home. Instead, they uncover a heartbreaking motive and a nine-month-long scheme to carry out the ultimate betrayal.
4. Payment Plan
Aired 29 March 2026 • 43 min
After the search for a missing Florida couple leads to a chilling discovery in their garage, detectives follow the money trail to a surprising false identity that unlocks a deadly interstate scheme.
5. Killer Principal
Aired 5 April 2026 • 43 min
When a pregnant St. Louis elementary school teacher is found shot to death in her apartment, an unusual gun silencer, missing money and the victim's own meal plan help unlock a shocking and devious murder plan.
6. Desert Grift
Aired 12 April 2026 • 43 min
When a successful Palm Springs art dealer goes missing, the search leads detectives through a complex web of charismatic conmen, luxury shopping sprees, and one small piece of evidence that uncovers an elaborate murder plot.
7. Digital Justice
Aired 19 April 2026 • 43 min
When a beloved mom is murdered in her suburban Connecticut basement, and her husband is found zip-tied to a chair, detectives pursue a camo-clad intruder and a twisted trail of digital evidence that uncovers a diabolical plan, months in the making.
8. Silenced to Death
Aired 26 April 2026 • 43 min
A young woman vanishes from small-town Oregon after heading to a Halloween party, leaving her family devastated and detectives hitting dead ends. Years later, new evidence from an unlikely source reveals the gruesome plan to silence a vulnerable victim.
9. Pizza Bomber
Aired 3 May 2026 • 43 min
A botched bank robbery and bomb-clad hostage lead Erie detectives through a bizarre, convoluted scavenger hunt that starts with a pizza delivery and ends with multiple victims.
10. A Burning Plot
Aired 10 May 2026 • 43 min
After a former fire department volunteer dies in a house fire, inexplicable findings on scene, prison informants and forged documents expose a duplicitous scheme. A scheme driven by insatiable greed, that began more than two years prior.