Evil Lives Here

When Jack "Roy" Spillman started collecting wolf memorabilia, his sisters thought it was just an odd hobby. But when they learned of horrific things he had done, they realized some people may have been right when they called him "more animal than human".

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.

If your father was one of the most prolific serial killers in America, would you see the signs? It never occurred to Shirley Gaskins that the father she adored could be one, but the more people vanished without explanation, the harder it was to deny.

Timothy Bass had gotten away with murder for decades, telling his wife, Gina, that he enjoyed working the night shift to make extra money. For years, Gina believed him until she uncovered his secret and was left wondering what evil her husband had done.

John Duck spent his entire life fearing the day his brother, Kevin, would finally kill someone. When he discovered his brother was actually a murderer, he still wasn't ready to face the truth he had always known: that his brother had been born a killer.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

On the day Robert Foust contemplated killing his own son, Aaron, he saw it as the only way to prevent Aaron from becoming a murderer. But instead, Robert chose to put himself and his son in God's hands. And God's plan would make him question everything.

When Corey Breininger was a child, his stepmother, Judith Hawkey, coerced him into doing something horrible. Tormented by guilt, he kept her deadly secret for years. Knowing what she was capable of, how could he ever tell the truth and hope to survive?