Nightmare Next Door — Season 3
What secrets lurk behind fences?
About this season
The tales of mysterious murders that rocked small-town America. Each hour brings you a new murder mystery and a new look into the evil that can lurk in the heart and soul of a tight-knit community. Interviews with investigators, prosecutors, family members and neighbors piece together the twisting tale of a classic whodunit.
Episodes (5)
1. Fallen Angel
Aired 18 August 2011 • 43 min
When 21-year-old Jamaican immigrant Dawnia Dacosta meets a hellish end in 1998, residents of Broward County, FL, are puzzled. Who would want to kill such an angelic, church-going young woman? Detectives are stumped until "divine intervention" strikes and luck leads them to a killer with evil intentions.
2. Death in the Family
Aired 15 August 2011 • 43 min
When 56-year-old widower David Lunz is gunned down in his Palm Harbor, FL, home, this laid-back community fears the worst. It takes investigators more than two years and a surprise clue found 600 miles from the crime scene to nail a killer from David's past.
3. Heartless in the Heartland
Aired 1 September 2011 • 43 min
The tiny town of Boonville, MO, is devastated when the body of 8-year-old Alyssa Owen is found near a rural country road. When another body turns up six weeks later, investigators soon learn the senseless brutality of this double homicide.
4. Conspiracy of Evil
Aired 8 September 2011 • 43 min
Grosse Point, MI is a privileged community untouched by homicide in over 60 years. So when bookkeeper Barbara Iske is found murdered in the driveway of a local home, the village is shocked. Police use the little evidence they have to catch the killer.
5. Midwestern Malice
Aired 15 September 2011 • 43 min
The small town of Poplar Bluff, MO, is jolted awake in 1992 when 31-year-old Laura Wynn is found sexually assaulted and strangled to death in her bedroom. And when a double homicide hits a nearby town, people are terrified. Thirteen years later their fears are confirmed when DNA proves the killer lives among them.