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American Monster

Monsters can be found lurking behind any innocent smile and on any street corner in America. Never-before-seen-video footage stares straight into the eyes of these killers who hide in plain sight.
201812 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S3 E1 - Stages of Grief
    July 7, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    In suburban California, an intruder brutally attacks and kills Joan Dawley. As the Dawley family grieves, it's up to LAPD detectives to crack the case.
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  2. S3 E2 - Remote Control
    July 14, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    When Sherri Dally mysteriously vanishes from her Ventura home, her husband Michael and best friend Debbie head up a massive search. But someone knows more than they're saying.
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  3. S3 E3 - Backyard Daddy
    July 21, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    In Ogden, Utah, Stephen and Becky Vargas appear to have it all. Behind the picture perfect life seen in home videos, jealousy and control issues are abound. However, no one thought their marriage would end in murder.
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  4. S3 E4 - A Mother's Work
    August 4, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    Never-before-seen home movies reveal the fabulous lifestyle of a family in their Florida mansion. But when their lives are upended by a ghastly shooting, everyone in this eccentric family becomes a suspect.
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  5. S3 E5 - Band of Brothers
    August 11, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    A Mormon family with eight children is destroyed by a gruesome double murder in Provo, Utah.
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  6. S3 E6 - Watch Your Back
    August 18, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    A young military family is forever changed by an insidious murder plot sparked by greed and betrayal.
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  7. S3 E7 - The Last Valentine
    September 1, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    In Oklahoma, successful Dr. John Hamilton and his wife Susan are the envy of all -- until a vicious Valentine's Day murder destroys their lives. Never-before-seen home videos shed light on a brutal murder that no one saw coming.
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  8. S3 E8 - Into the Swamp
    September 8, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    A member of a family-run construction business goes missing in Waycross, Georgia, sparking a two-decade search for the truth.
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  9. S3 E9 - Don't Forget Me
    September 22, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    On the day before he is to start a new job, a father of two children disappears without warning.
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  10. S3 E10 - Off-Camera
    September 29, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    A video blogger's husband is kidnapped and murdered in Texas leading investigators to wonder if she is hiding a dark secret.
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  11. S3 E11 - Take Me to the River
    October 13, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    Coming home from church, a local preacher finds his wife brutally stabbed and beaten, the apparent victim of a home invasion. His alibi is sound, as are their two grown sons'. However, several details just don't add up.
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  12. S3 E12 - Just Out of Frame
    October 20, 2018
    43min
    TV-14
    A fun-loving couple, both business-owners, share a close relationship with their grown daughters. When the mother is found gruesomely bludgeoned to death in her own home, no one suspects the unthinkable.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Starring
Tom Streithorst
Studio
Investigation Discovery
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