American Monster

- Season 8

(2022)

A college co-ed falls for a rich classmate, but he hides a sinister side.

Gil Dossett and his family live an idyllic existence until an accident changes everything. It takes years to chart a new course through life, but just when it seems Gil has finally righted the ship, he finds himself in the darkest place of all.

Life is good for a love-struck boxing coach until someone wants him dead.

A woman meets her love match, but his idea of love may be her undoing.

Divorced mother of four, Krystal Humphus, marries single dad Nathan Maddox. She is glad that she's found a man who loves her kids. But her dream of a big, blended family turns into a nightmare and ends abruptly in a hail of bullets.

A woman with everything to live for can't foresee the darkness that awaits.

This installment features Doris Hoskins (born 1972) and her January 8, 2016 murder at the hands of her husband Mark Andrews. Her children Hope Scott and Rachel Dewberry speak about their loving mother, as well as Doris' former sister-in-law Dorenda Gentry.

As gentle giant Randy Ferguson approaches his 40th birthday, his sisters worry that he'll never have a family of his own. All of that changes when Randy meets and marries single mom Angela Phillips, but the beautiful life they build together hides an ugly secret. On March 23, 2006, 911 dispatchers in South Hill, Washington received a call from Angela Ferguson who claimed that her husband, Randall "Randy" Ferguson, never returned to their South Hill home after they got into an argument. The police started a missing person investigation, but just two days later, they ...

Joann Albanese finds love again with a personal trainer named John Edwards. However, when John moves in with her, Joann discovers that her wonderful new boyfriend is not who he claims to be.

On April 26, 2009, 25-year-old Heather Suzanne Strube was killed in broad daylight in the parking lot outside a Target store in Snellville, Georgia. Strube's approximately 18-month-old son Carson was in Heather's vehicle close to the shooting of his mother, but he was unharmed. Law enforcement quickly developed good leads on the case and arrested Joanna Hayes, age 45, of the murder. The suspect had disguised herself as a man, by wearing a wig and mustache while murdering her daughter-in-law. More than two years after the murder, Hayes was convicted by a jury at the ...