Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death

In 1997, in quaint Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a detective inherits a stack of cold cases. As he begins to unravel each one, he uncovers a shocking and gruesome common thread.

In 1993, an officer dies from a gunshot during a routine traffic stop in Manhattan Beach, California. A 12-year-old boy was on the scene during the crime, but he's too terrified to tell police what he witnessed.

In 2007 in Bethany, Oklahoma, a young pregnant woman goes missing. Police desperately try to retrace her last steps and unearth more than just the secrets she harbored.

In 1988, a man is released from jail after a judge deems his murder confession false. For 25 years, a family's hope for justice fades, as the killer walks the streets. But one tenacious detective refuses to let this cold case go.

In 1993, a family is torn apart when a mother in Jacksonville, Florida, goes missing. The case stumps detectives, who believe that the truth about what happened to her is locked inside the mind of the missing woman's three-year-old son.

In Burlington, North Carolina, 2003, pregnant April Greer vanishes. Her boyfriend says she left him, and her family is worried sick. No one knows that the unbearable truth about what really happened to April is the stuff of nightmares.

In 2003, a young man in Georgia shoots his father in the head sixteen times. Days later, the dismembered body of a nun turns up on the side of a Virginia road. The story behind these two crimes haunts those involved to this day.

Amidst the rural landscape that skirts the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a young mom lies lifeless on a lonely stretch of highway -- the apparent victim of a hit-and-run. As evidence mounts, the façade begins to crack, exposing the twisted and shocking truth.

In 2000, a South Barrington, Illinois, rookie cop responds to the scene of what many believe to be an accidental drowning. The officer feels something about it doesn't sit quite right - and it's a hunch that, ten years later, he still hasn't forgotten.

In 1980, in Radford, Virginia, college freshman Gina Hall goes out dancing and never returns. Police follow her trail to a mysterious lake house, but where she goes from there is a mystery that has endured for 40 years.

For two years, in Dallas, Texas, surgical patients fall victim to a monster with a scalpel and a medical degree.

In 2011, in Tustin, California, a family is blindsided by the sins of their mother.

In 1995, a beloved mother is found raped and murdered in the accounting office where she works. The bloody body of her young daughter is nearby. But as police photograph the scene, they get the shock of their careers.

When a beautiful and hardworking single mother in Oak Cliff, Texas, marries a new man, she has no idea the monster she's brought into her home.