Questions persist surrounding Cameron Todd Willingham's conviction and death sentence, but according to Stacy Kuykendall, who knew him better than anyone, Cameron is a monster who was guilty as charged and deserved to die.
Jeanne Avsenew and her son Peter were close, but as Peter matured his obsession with death grew. The day Jeanne finds a bullet with her name scrawled on it, she realizes her son wants her dead and must take drastic measures to keep safe
Teenager Sarah Garone is targeted by an anonymous predator for nearly a decade; each time, Sarah turns to her stepfather, Gary Hardy, for protection, not realizing he is the one determined to hurt her.
When Sonja Holt's fiance, Stafford Shaw, starts staying out late, she initially believes his excuse that he is only working. But when signs begin to appear that he has been lying to her, he attempts to convince her otherwise. Determined to uncover the truth, Sonja never imagines just how far Stafford will go to keep anyone from finding out the truth about him, or the terrible price that will have to be paid when his secret lives finally start to collide.
When Claire Throssell meets Darren Sykes, she interprets her soon-to-be husband's constant, overwhelming displays of attention and affection as signs of true love. She doesn't realize that Darren's grand gestures are his sinister way of luring her into a false sense of security so that he can control her. Finding herself trapped in the tightening grip of a monster and determined to plot her escape, Claire knows that Darren will stop at nothing to get what he wants, but she doesn't realize just how devastating his retribution will be until he finally takes his revenge.
Jon Eason hopes every day that someone will murder his son Dylan in prison; Dylan Eason's life sentence without parole doesn't appease his father, who admits wishing for his own son's death is horrible but feels Dylan deserves it for his 2016 crimes.
When Christian Fuhr is sentenced to life in prison, Ammie Turos is willing to wait for him, completely convinced the man she loves could not possibly have also been a killer. She remains faithful to him for years, determined to somehow prove his innocence and that he has been wrongly convicted. Then she discovers that the accusations against him are all true, and her conviction is replaced by uncertainty whether her life had also been in danger all along, or if she had just been one woman in Christian's life whom he had not wanted to kill.
As a child, Daniel Rolle idolizes his father, Donald, but he begins to realize that his father's growing rage and unrelenting cruelty are causing everyone to suffer and ultimately leads to murder,
Cathy Mills is only a teenager when her fairy-tale marriage to Robert Walden turns into a nightmare; still, it is not until she sees a police sketch of her husband that she realizes his true identity.
Every time Cheri Tate calls the police on her husband, they believe him over her; then she leaves him, and he takes his revenge, but on others; she realizes in horror that he has done to them what he always wanted to do to her.
