American Monster

In rural Ohio, an intruder brutally guns down Jack and Linda Myers in their sleep. The only witness is their sleepy 4-year-old grandson.

The Yates family moves to Spokane, Washington, only to find it besieged by a serial killer who's targeting young women and confounding the police.

When Frank Hilley is struck down by a mysterious sickness, the entire town of Anniston, Alabama, grieves. But when his daughter also falls seriously ill, the family becomes suspicious.

The Snyders are thrilled when their 34-year-old son Mike finally starts a family with his sweetheart -- as seen in home videos. But after being diagnosed with a terrible illness, Mike vanishes. Only years later does his horrific fate come to light.

After a taping of their local-access TV show in rural Vermont, Chrissy and Charlie Billis have a terrible accident. They smash their car into a tree but only one of them survives.

In Colorado, second-time spouses Harold and Toni Henthorn seem to dote on their young daughter and each other, until their idyllic life is shattered by a deadly hiking accident.

After moving to a remote town in Colorado, Ron and Cynthia Phillips and their four children try to adjust. But their never-aired home videos mask darker impulses within their family.

Sword collector Neal Williams is the house-husband while his wife Manling keeps the family afloat. Until Manling returns home to find her family slaughtered -- at sword point.

Police discover that someone's been using Craigslist to lure men to a remote wilderness and gun them down.

A woman in a nearby town is gunned down -- and a married man who lives nearby is accused of murder -- his fate hangs on that same home video camera.