Beloved preacher Matthew Winkler and his loving wife, Mary, seem like two peas in a pod. But they’re hiding some scandalous secrets. Before long their horsing and carrying on will leave one of them dead and the other one running for the hills.

They say everything's just a little sweeter in the South. At least that's the case for Jim and Kelley Cannon, one of Nashville, Tennessee's finest young couples. But this fairytale isn't quite as enchanted as it seems.

In February 1993, beautiful 20-year-old co-ed Shawna Hawk is strangled to death in the bathroom of her Charlotte, NC, home. Her murder ignites an investigation that leads police down a horrifying trail of bodies in pursuit of a diabolical serial killer.

Prim and proper Marie Hilley of Anniston, Alabama, is left to fend for herself after a mysterious illness overtakes her husband. Despite a life insurance payout, her debts keep piling up as the same illness threatens to kill her daughter as well.

Laura Ling is a single mom trying to raise her teenage daughter alone, until she meets Stephen Stanko, a down-on-his-luck author. Laura offers Stephen a helping hand and invites him into her family. His true nature soon shines through.

Derwin Brown wins the sheriff seat in DeKalb County, GA, and promises to clean up the department. Incumbent sheriff Sidney Dorsey and his associates will stop at nothing to hold on to their jobs. It’s a battle between good vs. evil, and someone ends up paying the price.

In September 2004, fierce Hurricane Ivan rips through rural Chunchula, Alabama, leaving members of the tight-knit community to repair their town. But for Lisa Marie Nichols and her family, the storm has done more damage than they could ever imagine.

Genore Guillory is a generous soul and a friend to all, and when she doesn’t show up at work one day, her colleagues are immediately concerned. When police in Clinton, LA, discover her battered body but no enemies, they are left to wonder -- who loved Genore to death?

A scandalous family relationship leads to the deaths of nine people in the premiere of this true-crime series examining Southern murders.

In the posh expanses of Virginia's Hunt Country, the fiery relationship between billionaire heiress Susan Cummings and her Argentine polo-playing boyfriend Roberto Villegas comes to a violent and shocking end.

Robyn and Carol ('Sissy') are best friends who've always been by each other's side. When Robyn's husband, Brian Davis, is found murdered in Lake Charles, LA, Carol is right by her side. But police uncover Brian's racy past and a love for women that may have been his demise.

Spoiled southern belle Pat Allanson yearns to be the next Scarlett O'Hara. She thinks she found the perfect Rhett Butler in Tom Allanson, but when her privileges suddenly come to a halt, she will stop at nothing to get the life she thinks she deserves.

21-year-old Geralyn DeSoto, a beautiful, young graduate student is brutally murdered in her Baton Rouge, LA home. Hers is but one of a string of slayings that have police racing against the clock to prevent a serial killer from striking again.

When a retired couple, Derek and Nancy Haysom, is found murdered in their home in 1985, the town of Boonsboro, VA, fears they have a killer on the loose. Neighboring police agencies join forces to hunt down the monster and uncover clues that may have them heading right into the devil's den.