Evil Lives Here

On mornings when Joylynn couldn't remember anything from the night before, she always told herself that she must have had too much to drink. She never suspected that her husband, Robert Howard Bruce was responsible or that he was just getting started.

When Corey Breininger was a child his stepmother Judith Hawkey coerced him into doing something horrible. Tormented by guilt he kept her secret for years. Knowing what she was capable of he never thought he could tell the truth and hope to survive.

Michele was always glad that her husband, Richard Daniel Starett, didn't mind her frequent trips to visit her parents. She never guessed that he was committing heinous crimes when he sent her away, and that his sick perversion was getting harder to hide.

Robert Foust contemplated killing his own son, Aaron, believing it was the only way to prevent him from becoming a murderer. Instead, Robert turned to his faith and chose to put himself and his son in God's hands, which would lead them both to tragedy.

As a boy, Travis Spencer always told himself that the cruel pranks his older brother, Timothy, played on him were ultimately harmless. He never suspected that his brother was using him to practice methods of torture that would be used on others.

It has been more than 25 years, yet Joyce Alexander is still terrified of her son, William Patrick Alexander. She fears he holds her responsible for his horrifying crime, and is convinced he is plotting his revenge from prison.

Edward Pehowic harbored dark secrets before he married Robin Healey, and she would catch only glimpses of her husband's dark side. But it wasn't until after she finally escaped from him once and for all that she realized just how evil he was.

On the day that John Duck decided to murder his own older brother, Kevin, he had spent his entire life preparing himself for the day when Kevin finally killed someone, and he didn't see any other way to stop him.

A woman is oblivious that she married a demented murderer who covers up his twisted secret life by working the night shift at his job.

It never occurred to Shirley Gaskins that the father she adored could be a killer, but the more people vanished without explanation, the harder it was to deny.

Richard and Ryan Girgis knew their father, Magdi Girgis, was a cheapskate, prone to violence, and not a particularly good father. But when their family was torn apart, neither wanted to admit deep down that they knew who was behind it.

When Jack "Roy" Spillman started collecting anything he could find related to wolves, his sisters, April and May, thought it was just a strange hobby. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Not long after Terra Newell met her mother's new boyfriend, she sensed John Meehan was no good. Debra Newell never suspected her new man was secretly plotting to destroy her and her family. And Terra never imagined she would ultimately be forced to kill.

When Shirley Furgala helped her mother, Betty Lou Beets, drag a dead body to the yard and bury it, she knew her own life might be in danger if she refused to help. What Shirley didn't know was this wouldn't be the last time her mother would ask for help.

Teri Knight spent weeks driving cross-country, desperately searching for the secret her ex-husband, Manuel Gehring, took to his grave. It took years before a stranger finally solved the mystery that haunted Teri ever since learning Manuel died in prison.

As Christina Hildreth unwittingly helped Shawn Grate clean up his first crime scene, she didn't realize what she was doing. Once police were banging on her door while she was trapped with a madman, she understood the situation was direr than she realized.

Jessi Toronjo went to a sleepover in 1989 thinking her stepbrother, Jeffrey Pelley, was at his senior prom. She spent the next 13 years believing someone else committed the unspeakable crime of that weekend, only to discover she knew the killer all along.

When Vickie Webb's son warned her the police might seek him out, she wasn't surprised. He had been a troublemaker for years, but she sensed this time was different. Vicki's love for her son will face a hellish test when he is accused of the ultimate evil.

When Wilda Gadd married Howard Willis, she dismissed the rumors about him. That is until she found herself wired up and risking her life to find the dismembered bodies of his victims. Wilda discovered that Howard's secret life was darker than any rumor.

Each time she was targeted by an anonymous predator, Sarah Garone ran to her stepfather, Gary Hardy. She always felt something about Gary was creepy, but as the events got more disturbing, she never imagined someone trusted could be the one to hurt her.