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Hometown Homicide
Hometown Homicide

Hometown Homicide

—The urgency and intimacy of local news reports capture the murder investigations that turned small towns and communities upside down.
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Season 26 of 6 Episodes

  • In August 1992, millionaire Tennessee landowner Allen Roberts arrives home to discover his wife is missing; he tells police he received a ransom call for Doe's safe return; slowly, the town turns on Allen, until police take note of one odd neighbor.

  • Debora Gail Moody vanishes into thin air from her home in Ludowici Ga.; a decade passes in her case with no answers; her family persists by posting billboards all around town; 11 years later, a confession reveals the chilling details.

  • Businesspeople John and Liz Calvert vanish in 2008 from Hilton Head, S.C.; friends, investigators and local reporters are shocked and in disbelief that a couple could disappear without a trace in such a peaceful place.

  • Alisha Sidie disappears from a small vacation town in Wisconsin in 2008; family, friends, local reporters and police investigators recall the fear and sadness the crime instilled on their tight community.

  • Alexis Murphy, who is a rising social media star and high school athlete, disappears along the infamous Route 29 in August 2013; a massive search by local and federal authorities yields zero results, until a security video reveals a chilling clue.

  • Joel Larson is shot to death in a safe haven community for gay people in the 1990s Minneapolis; two more shootings terrorize people in the community as they realize a serial killer lives among them.
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The urgency and intimacy of local news reports capture the murder investigations that turned small towns and communities upside down.

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Jake Robards

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