The unstable leader of a communist party threatens a member with a gun and accusses her of being an FBI agent for daring to ask questions.

A mother soon sees the horrifying reality of being manipulated into a cult when their leader forces her to beat her baby with a belt for being noisy.

After being stripped of all authority and watching David Miscavige's burst of violence, Marty Rathbun decides it's time to escape from the Scientology Compound.

When a person tried to leave or 'Blow' from Scientology, their auditing sessions along with their credit card or bank information were used to track them down. The last option to bring a person back was the 'severe reality adjustment.'

As the head of the household strikes fear into everyone's minds, he controls the group by enforcing cruel punishments in their daily lives.

Desperate to end the abuse, a woman attempts to flee the house of her captors.

Mary Rich and her family meet self-styled missionary Ron Larrinaga at their local church. When Ron convinces them to join his family living in a remote house in northern California, the house soon becomes a violent retreat.

After being wrongfully arrested, a man finds himself at odds with the local police due to his religious beliefs. Will he be able to keep his temper and stay on the right side of the law?

Young father Kerry Noble takes his pregnant wife to a Christian commune and after meeting charismatic leader Jim Ellison, they feel this is a devout and perfect place. But soon, Kerry is led into a world of racism and mass-murder.

Susan Hamlin is intimidated by husband Richard into fabricating 'repressed childhood memories.' He manipulates Susan into believing she has molested their own children and is at the center of a plot to kill him.

When single mom Christine Marie meets an ex-Mormon posing as a Mormon prophet, his ecclesiastical manipulations turn her life into a living nightmare. How far will he go to break her faith?

In 1977, twenty year old Colleen Stan is kidnapped and imprisoned for up to 23 hours a day in a coffin sized box under a bed. Kept as a slave for seven years, will she ever escape?

Devoted Scientologist Nancy is willing to do whatever it takes in order to bring down The Church's enemies - including becoming an undercover spy.

As the head of the household strikes fear into everyone's minds, he controls the group by enforcing cruel punishments in their daily lives.

Desperate to end the abuse, a woman attempts to flee the house of her captors.

Mary Rich and her family meet self-styled missionary Ron Larrinaga at their local church. When Ron convinces them to join his family living in a remote house in northern California, the house soon becomes a violent retreat.

Returning from the club, young Eva Hartmann came home to find her father, Werner in his bedroom. Unfortunately she found him murdered, naked, and lying in a pool of blood.

Kelly Lovera was murdered in the back of his truck, when the police told his wife, they got a reaction that they were not expecting.

While in a cop car immediately following their arrest, Rachael Mullenix reassures Ian Allen that if he says she wasn't involved in the crime that she would come visit him in jail.

In Yakima, Washington, high school athletic director "Gabby" Moore turns out winning teams and championship athletes. But when two of Gabby's protégés are unexpectedly drawn into his personal life a deadly game of love, loyalty, lust and betrayal ...

Kent Walker, son of convicted killer Sante Kimes, talks about the good and the bad times with his mother.

Learn how miniatures were used to create the immersive set of Murder Book in this behind-the-scenes video.

Cold case detectives track a sadistic killer suspected in the deaths and disappearances of at least two women, and find his secret log of murder.

In 1977, high school senior Mary Quigley is found raped and murdered in her hometown of Santa Clara, California. Her murder book begins as detectives photograph the crime scene, trace her activities, and interview everyone she was with that night.

Investigators explain what a murder book is and how crucial it is to solving a cold case.

Jeanne Harrington’s marriage to Michael Gabel was on the rocks. The couple were constantly fighting and instead of talking it out Jeanne took things into her own hands… in more vicious ways.

Lizzie Borden, American most infamous murderess. Born into a wealthy respected family, Lizzie was a quiet, Sunday school teacher - that is until she took an ax and hacked her stepmother and and father to death. Or did she?

Beauty queen Darlene Doskocil always wanted the easy way out.

Some women can’t resist boy toys. But fur flies when these women reveal they're "Killer Cougars.” 39-year-old Dr. Shirley Turner exposes some skeletons in her closet: a history of affairs with younger men all ending in rejection that Shirley could not handle.