Steven Brown torments his wife, Deborah, and their children for 16 years, but Deborah's efforts to escape her husband's wrath proves dangerous for her and for those who offer to help.

In Miami, teenager Christin Bilotti's romance with 19-year-old Richard Rojas takes a dark turn, and Rojas winds up being lured into a deadly trap at his ex-girlfriend's home.

A deadly game of love and betrayal arises between an athlete and a high school athletic director.

In Georgia, a single father, Donald Ray Skinner, marries a beautiful single mother, Allene Hawkins, but they do not live happily ever after as the result of a deadly deception.

A millionaire marries young, beautiful Debra Stover; a tennis pro sets his sights on Debra.

A shotgun wedding leads to a troubled marriage for naval officers John Marmo and Rebecca Braswell, later, after their relationship crumbles, a custody battle will push them into a fight to the death.

In Yakima, Wash., Vern Holbrook runs a successful real estate firm, but tragedy looms for this realtor as his stepson's marriage crumbles and a business deal goes sour.

Linda Henning's man of her dreams is going through a bitter divorce and his estranged wife threatens their relationship.

Dan and Lisa move to a small home on the property of Dan's parents; soon a plot of deception becomes a murder.

A whirlwind romance and buried secrets lead to fatal consequences.

Crusader Mary Louise Thompson tries to stop the rise of street gangs in her Oregon town but goes too far when her son winds up behind bars.

Involved in a sordid affair with Poughkeepsie, N.Y., businessman Fred Andros, Susan Fassett is murdered in a hail of bullets as she leaves choir practice.

While investigating a murder that rocked the community of Ramsey, N.J., detectives use wiretaps, search warrants and computer forensics to probe the stormy marriage of a pharmaceutical executive and his wife.

A father drowns in bills while a mother battles for her life; a tragic accident leads to a downward spiral.

In New Orleans, police officers Antoinette Frank and Ronnie Williams begin to moonlight to supplement their salaries, then greed leads one of them down a dark path ending in murder.

Danny Bowen is unable to hold down a job, and his wife, Anne Trenois, has had enough after 10 years of marriage; their divorce spirals into a violent custody battle, which turns deadly.

Former military man Gilbert Hart takes a strict approach with his teenage children, but his wife, Rebecca, thinks he's crossed a line, and their family feud escalates into an all-out war.

A twisted tale of love, infidelity and jealousy ends in tragedy.

Morgan and Kevin Mengel appear to be living the American dream until one of them has a sordid affair that leads to the bludgeoning death of the other.

In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 17-year-old Linda Pedroza and her boyfriend, Antoine Wright, collaborate to murder her mother.

John Torres becomes embroiled in son-in-law Daniel Duffy's get-rich quick schemes with deadly consequences.

Aphrodite Jones' numerous true-crime books have captivated readers for years. Now, the best-selling author and criminal profiler brings her uncanny instincts to this series that focuses on the compelling cases that commanded the headlines. From the unsolved murder of child beauty-pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey to the strange circumstances surrounding the deaths of singer Michael Jackson and model Anna Nicole Smith, Jones presents her expert take on the crimes, often accompanied with startling new footage, evidence and interviews.

Things aren't always as they seem. "Deadly Affairs" drives that point home with true stories of romances gone terribly wrong. Whether it's a love triangle that violently collapses or a workplace affair that implodes, the re-enactments -- two per episode -- allow viewers to knock down closed bedroom doors, navigate secret trysts, and witness salacious liaisons. The stories contain first-person accounts from friends and family of the victims, and commentary from authorities and true-crime experts. Best yet? It's hosted by Emmy-winning actress Susan Lucci, who's been a part of a few steamy scandals and deadly dalliances in her daytime soap career.

If you're going to do the crime, you might as well do it with passion. "Scorned: Love Kills" is perfect Saturday night TV for those who prefer a voyeuristic peek into how lust and obsession can destroy lives. From dalliances with strip-club dancers to teachers falling for their students, the stories featured in this series mix sexual intrigue with bedroom betrayal to form a scandalous recipe for murder.

Journalist Tamron Hall leads a team of correspondents in this newsmagazine series. Each hourlong episode presents two complex and compelling crime cases, and Hall and the investigative team dig beyond the headlines to explore not only what happened in each case but also why it happened. Interviewees including detectives, prosecutors and psychological profilers -- as well as criminals and their victims -- reveal what caused people to turn to crime, then whether justice was served finally. Emmy-winning journalists Michelle Sigona and Angeline Hartmann, "America's Most Wanted" correspondent Tom Morris Jr., best-selling author Aphrodite Jones, and filmmaker Keith Beauchamp are also featured in the series.

"Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?" tells the real stories of men and women who lived happy, seemingly normal lives with the people they loved -- and who they thought they knew. When a clue or mishap causes them to dig further into the secret lives of their spouses, the shocking truths lead them to wonder who it is they really fell in love with. These stories include husbands with multiple families, spies working under cover, those who steal thousands of dollars, and others whose double lives include murder.

Lt. Joe Kenda spent 23 years in the Colorado Springs Police Department, where he amassed a lifetime of memories catching killers and helping solve close to 400 homicide investigations. The vivid memories are brought back to life in this hourlong series, as Kenda reopens his "Murder Books" for viewers -- folders in which every detail of his murder cases is held -- to revisit the most disturbing cases still haunting him today. As he details the process of how he solved the crimes, Kendra also embarks on a personal journey, coming to terms with long-suppressed nightmares. As he says, "I don't want to tell these stories. I need to."

From the outside, families seem like harmonious units in loving homes. But you don't necessarily know what secrets families are hiding from the outside world. This series, narrated by actress Brenda Strong, explores families hiding the most extreme of family secrets: murder. Each episode explores a death in a family, unraveling the motives of the family members, all of whom are potential suspects -- and potential victims. Sibling rivalries, disputes over family businesses and infidelity are some of the factors that lead to the families' ultimate betrayals.

Each episode of this true-crime reality series examines a different felon, usually a female, who has committed murder or attempted murder. The victim is usually the perpetrator's partner. The documentary-style series features interviews with friends and family members of the accused and victims, law-enforcement officials, attorneys and other people with first-hand knowledge of the cases.

True stories of everyday people who live within America's unique subcultures and secret societies.

Using dramatic re-enactments bolstered by police reports and forensic evidence, Investigation Discovery delves into the minds of female killers in "Deadly Women." Each episode focuses on four different cases in which women, for a variety of reasons and with a variety of methods, chose to take the lives of others. Stories featured include more recent cases, like that of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who in 2001 drowned her five children one by one in the bathtub and then called police, to older cases like that of the "baby farmer" Sarah Makin in 1890s Australia, who killed illegitimate infants left temporarily in her care.