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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.