Librarian Sarah Rose abandons her family to go on the road with a spiritual teacher, then the journey turns into a nightmare as she suffers violence at the hands of her guru, "Master David."

Hoping to cure his mentally ill brother, Mark signs a billion-year contract with the Church of Scientology and climbs the ranks before discovering the church's dark side.

Kerry Noble takes his wife to a Christian commune and are soon lead into a dark world.

When Maura Schmierer joins a Christian group, she becomes trapped in a militaristic regime that destroys her marriage and separates her from her children.

In 1975, Janja Lalich joins the San Francisco-based Democratic Workers Party and soon finds herself caught up in a web of abuse.

Troubled teenager Angela King becomes a white supremacist who preaches hate and launches attacks against innocent victims, then she goes to prison for armed robbery and tries to find redemption.

As cult leader Jim Jones becomes increasingly unhinged and despotic, teenagers Vernon and Leslie take desperate measures to escape from Jonestown, Guyana.

Mary Rich and her family follow self-styled missionary Ron Larrinaga to a remote house in northern California, where things soon turn violent.

Susan Hamlin's husband has manipulated her into believing that she has harmed her own children and is plotting to kill him.

Christine Marie meets a man whos promises lure her into a living nightmare.

An organization's secret war against its critics is discovered.

The stories in "Surviving Evil" are about actual crimes and people's will to fight for life and find courage when all hope seems lost. The victims of the horrific incidents describe what they experienced when they found their lives in the hands of cold-blooded predators, including how they summoned the strength and fearlessness to turn the tables on the assailants in order to stay alive. Actress Charisma Carpenter, best-known for her role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spinoff, "Angel," hosts the 10-episode series, providing viewers with a first-person point of view as the survivor of a nearly fatal crime when she was 22.

Investigation Discovery honors the success of exposing double-dealing husbands and deceived wives in "Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?" by reminding viewers to question the seemingly innocent people in their lives, from the dentist to the dry cleaner. The network's first true spinoff series, "Who the (Bleep)...," goes beyond stories of marriage misconduct to expose real evil lurking in relationships from all walks of life. Half-hour episodes include first-person accounts from those betrayed, among them Mary Capps, whose boss, Dennis Rader, was proven to be the infamous BTK serial killer, and Brent Jeffs, whose peaceful childhood turned hellish while living with his tyrannical, pro-polygamy uncle, Warren Jeffs. Re-enactments add to ID's signature methods of storytelling.

Stacy Keach narrates this dissection of the dark side of the American Dream, a survey of how far some people go to become rich, no matter the cost to themselves and those around them. Real-life cases are reviewed and involve such criminal activity as credit card scams, identity theft, counterfeiting and Ponzi schemes.

Powerfully emotional stories tell of people who have been targets of compulsive stalkers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 6 million people in the U.S. are stalked each year, and in most instances, the stalker is someone the victim already knows. The series' hourlong episodes dramatize actual cases through visceral re-enactments and pointed testimony of victims, family members and law enforcement authorities, revealing what happens when stalkers can't have what -- or who -- they want, and stop at nothing to ensure that no one else can either. The chilling accounts probe the mechanics of an obsessive mind and the devastating impact of delusion.

True-crime stories about evil deeds perpetrated by family members.

There's a reason murder investigations don't begin with preconceived notions. Sometimes those least expected to be capable of committing such dark deeds -- respected role models and trusted members of the community -- can have a sinister side. "Unusual Suspects" documents baffling, challenging investigations, actual cases that were anything but cut and dry. Episodes feature in-depth interviews with leading law enforcement personnel combined with stylized re-enactments, illustrating how illusive offenders evaded capture for years before being undone by persistent police work.

While other true crime dramas follow a murder investigation to the ultimate end of revealing who committed the crime, this series leaves the conviction to the viewers. The stories are told by the deceased victims using fictional dialogue and a narrator who knows everything, including who is responsible, but doesn't come out and say it. Instead, as the mystery unfolds, the viewer is left to pick out the clues given throughout the show by friends, family members, and law enforcement officials and come to the conclusion on their own.

Investigation on how two seemingly ordinary people can come together to commit heinous crimes.

It may seem like it, but victims of stalking are not just celebrities and those in the public eye; the widely-misunderstood crime affects millions of people in the United States each year, people who are in perpetual fear for their lives; criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward -- a stalking victim herself -- presents stories of the crimes and explores the twisted psychology of those who committed them; victims and their families also recount their personal experiences and provide firsthand insight into effective steps they took to protect themselves; Dr. Ward offers practical tips that viewers can use to keep themselves safe.

What lurks in the shadows during graveyard shifts comes to light in this series, a quintessential Investigation Discovery offering that features nail-biting re-enactments of actual crimes in which darkness hides predators hungry for a midnight snack. Told through interviews with victims' family members and law enforcement, each story begins after a brutal crime is committed in the quiet of the night, and community members are left wondering who might be next. Investigators get to work, knowing that each time the sun sets, the body count might rise.