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A young German grifter moves to America, adopts various identities and kills many people along the way.

Episode 2, Shape Shifter

A teen disappears from a small American town. Several years later he turns up in Europe. But is it really him?

Episode 3, Welcome Home

A man is murdered by his cheating wife's lover, who had been living in their closet.

Episode 4, Skeleton In The Closet

When a body is found outside of a church it leads to a world of sex, drugs and Halloween pranks.

Episode 5, Who Done It

An intended murder victim turns the tables and kills her would-be hitman in a fight for survival.

Episode 6, Counterpunch

A murderer is caught when a footprint left in a hotdog bun next to the body is matched to him.

Episode 7, Smoking Bun

In this curious case a non-smoker is poisoned with a lethal dose of nicotine.

Episode 8, Dying For Love

Searching the internet, a cannibal finds someone who may be a willing participant to be his next meal.

Episode 9, Maneater

A young woman whose mother has made her ill her entire life turns the tables and kills her abusive mother.

Episode 10, Mommie Dearest

Twin Mexican wrestlers are accidentally poisoned to death by fake prostitutes in an attempted robbery.

Episode 11 - The Luchalooters

A woman brutally murders a fortune-teller for incorrectly predicting her future.

Episode 12 - Bad Fortune

Life imitates art when a filmmaker's obsession with tv character and serial killer Dexter turns deadly.

Episode 13 - Stranger Than Fiction

A woman attempts to murder her husband, but ends up implicating herself in another murder.

Episode 14 - Fatal Attraction

An amateur actor kills and dismembers the body of his friend in the attic of a theatre.

Episode 15 - Last Curtain

When a woman threatens to cut off her younger sister's allowance, the younger sister retaliates.

Episode 16 - Sister Act

In the spirit of `Natural Born Killers', a couple on a beach holiday decide to kill another couple for fun.

Episode 17 - Thrill Spree

A woman portrayed as the brave survivor of a brutal attack is charged with killing her co-worker.

Episode 18 - Namaslay

A man survives multiple attempts on his life without becoming aware that his friends are behind them.

Episode 19 - Iron Murphy

A lawyer doesn't realise that he is married to a con artist fugitive, who kills him and steals his money.

Episode 20 - Dark Horse

A man with money problems claims his own life insurance by faking his own death and committing identity fraud.

Episode 21, Body Double

A quiet teeneager murders his elderly neighbor in a ritualistic attempt to become an immortal vampire.

Episode 22, Vampire Diaries

A wife sedates and murders her husband then moves the body to a storage unit.

Episode 23, Sex, Lies and Smoothies

A woman murders her husband and tries to swap his identity with her lover's by getting him plastic surgery.

Episode 24, Anything For Love

A husband strangles his wife and uses an AC unit to cover up the time of death and his whereabouts.

Episode 25, American Booty

A man uses a rare poison to kill his neighbour simply to prove that he can get away with the perfect murder.

Episode 26, Hemlock Killer

A daughter plots with her boyfriend via emoji-laden text messages to kill her father while on holiday.

Episode 27, Emoji Overkill

A woman desperate to become a mom kills both her ex-husband and lover because they won't let her have a baby.

Episode 28, Ice Queen

A killer becomes so scared that a psychic's visions will reveal he murdered his aunt, so he confesses.

Episode 29, Psychic Sleuth

A husband kills his wife in a fit of rage after she threatens to expose his crossdressing secret.

Episode 30, Sweet Transvestite

A pet bird defends its owner by attacking his killer, which helps collect DNA and leads to a conviction.

Episode 31, Murder Most Foul

An actor confuses fantasy and reality, murdering his co-star when the script calls to end their relationship.

Episode 32, The Liars and The Lustful

Two women in their 70s befriend a homeless man, just to murder him for millions of dollars in life insurance.

Episode 33, Grifting Grannies

A humiliated young man kills his girlfriend after she reveals on TV that she has accepted money for sex.

Episode 34, Truth Hurts

A Mexican man wins big on a US lotto. It's not only his money that goes missing after hiring a money manager.

Episode 35, Dumb Luck

A stagehand is identified by his knots after killing and binding up an attractive cellist at an Opera House.

Episode 36, Dischord

A man tries to kill his wife by getting a snake to bite her but fails and feeds her a poisonous drink instead.

Episode 37, Snake Charmer

A wife murders her husband and disguises it as a hunting accident, leading to fingers pointing at her ex.

Episode 38, Oh Deer

Tessa drugs and kills her neighbor Maya with a ballet shoe. Tessa's obsessive diary reveals all to the police.

Episode 39, Foul Pile

A stripper and a wannabe gangster have the perfect plan to keep money flowing until their source is killed.

Episode 40, Stripped For Cash

A gang botch multiple murder attempts on their first victim, then kill their second before getting his money.

Episode 41, All Brawn, No Brains

Two brothers murder a friend and end up selling his valuable card collection to buy material to hide his body.

Episode 42, Bludgeons and Dragons

A woman possessed by the spirit of a murder victim, names the killer and specific details of the crime.

Episode 43, The Talking Dead

A married woman kills her lover with poison after he ends their affair to date a younger woman.

Episode 44, Sausage Fest

Bloody and mutilated mannequins turn up following a series of unsolved murders, leaving a small town scared.

Episode 45, Raining Mannequins

A man kills his father with a crossbow, fearing that he will reveal his secret financial debt to his fiancee.

Episode 46, It's A Lying Shame

One of a basketball player's twelve lovers plots to kill his girlfriend to eliminate her as a love rival.

Episode 47, Little Black Book

A couple who witness a murder are about to be killed themselves, but they are let go when they start to pray.

Episode 48, Answered Prayers

A woman kills hers husband and gets away with murder until she tries to kill for money again.

Episode 49, Gas Lighter

An artist kills a girl that he is obsessed with so that he can clear his mind and focus on his art.

Episode 50, Outta Sight

A small town diner is robbed, and the owner murdered. There's only one witness, a bird, and it talks.

Episode 51, Repeat After Me

A small town celebrity goes missing, just as body parts start tuning up around town.