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The Best Episodes of American Monster

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The Best Episodes of American Monster

Monsters can be found lurking behind any innocent smile and on any street corner in America. Never-before-seen-video footage stares straight into the eyes of these...
  1. Background image for Tempest
    8.3/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Tempest

    S12:E10

    Vincent Taylor is stuck in a controlling relationship with his Jekyll and Hyde wife. After a violent knife attack results in Vincent’s death, his wife claims she was the victim of an abusive relationship. However, Vincent’s phone will reveal the truth.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Day Three After Murder
    8.0/10(35 votes)

    #2 - Day Three After Murder

    S10:E2

    Divorced dad-of-three, Daniel Halseth, lives for visitations with his kids. When his teenage daughter Sierra claims that she wants to live with her dad, Daniel finds himself drawn into a web of lies and a plot that ends with a deadly fire.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Enjoy the Moment While It Lasts
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    #3 - Enjoy the Moment While It Lasts

    S10:E5

    Mystery shrouds the Iraqi community in Michigan when Ammar Al-Yasari, a devoted husband and father of two, is found hacked to death in his home. As the search for his killer intensifies, investigators unravel a web of digital clues that reveal an evil conspiracy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for My Body
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #4 - My Body

    S5:E6

    Sandy Miles and her daughter Tracie are as close as can be. But when Tracie vanishes and Sandy is found brutally murdered, the truth behind the killing is more horrific than investigators can possibly imagine.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for By God, That's Enough
    7.9/10(32 votes)

    #5 - By God, That's Enough

    S5:E9

    When single mom Michelle Chaffin finds love, it seems like the perfect case of opposites attract. But when Michelle vanishes without a trace, police uncover a terrible jealousy revealed through a shocking confession that leaves her family reeling.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Stay With Me
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #6 - Stay With Me

    S5:E10

    Diana Lovejoy and husband Greg Mulvihill live happily in southern California. But when accusations rock the marriage and a mysterious phone call ends with an attempted murder, police uncover the shocking truth behind this once dream couple.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Say Daddy's the Best
    7.9/10(24 votes)

    #7 - Say Daddy's the Best

    S10:E9

    Heavily pregnant Colorado native Shanna Vandewege supports her husband Craig’s plan to move to Texas for work. The birth of a baby makes up for Shanna’s separation from family, but someone is about to exploit her isolation as an outlet for their rage.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Lovely Rida
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Lovely Rida

    S12:E8

    Matt Hendershot is devastated when his marriage ends and his ex-wife moves on. But following the death of her lover, he allows her back into his home, along with a collection of the dead man’s guns. It is a mistake which will prove to be fatal.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Just Out of Frame
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #9 - Just Out of Frame

    S3:E12

    A fun-loving couple cultivates close relationships with their grown daughters, then the mother is bludgeoned to death in her home. No one suspects that the unthinkable could be true, but video doesn't lie, unlike guilty people.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Brothers in Arms
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #10 - Brothers in Arms

    S5:E1

    Mark Corona and Paul Stoeppler are two cousins who are as close as brothers. This blood bond is destroyed when one of them is murdered in cold blood. Never-before-seen home video and shocking CCTV footage reveal what really happened.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Flesh and Blood
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Flesh and Blood

    S5:E2

    Young parents Adrienne and James Magee work hard to provide a stable life for their three small children in rural Louisiana. But beneath the idyllic scenes lurks a dark secret, culminating in a heinous double-murder at the hands of a loved-one.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Have You Seen This Woman
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    #12 - Have You Seen This Woman

    S5:E7

    Rebecca and Ken Pierce film themselves raising their four kids in idyllic rural Oklahoma. But the family is haunted by a specter of addiction and violence across generations that will leave two of them brutally murdered, and the family destroyed.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Dance With Me
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #13 - Dance With Me

    S8:E3

    Father of three, Ramon Sosa, builds a successful boxing gym in Texas, coaching a slew of hotshot young fighters. When sultry Maria “Lulu” Dorantes dances into Ramon’s life, he feels like the luckiest man alive -- until someone marks him for murder.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Man Who Got Away
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #14 - The Man Who Got Away

    S8:E10

    In Snellville, GA, Heather Strube has a great life. She works in the family floral shop, raising her toddler son and looking forward to a bright future with her new boyfriend until a Sunday trip to the shopping center shatters everything.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Off-Camera
    7.7/10(46 votes)

    #15 - Off-Camera

    S3:E10

    An obsessive video blogger shares every detail of her roller-coaster life with her husband and their children online. One night, intruders tie her up, kidnap her husband and execute him; it seems someone has been keeping secrets.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Take Me to the River
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #16 - Take Me to the River

    S3:E11

    Coming home from church, a preacher finds his wife stabbed and beaten, the apparent victim of a home invasion. The preacher's alibi is rock solid, and his son's alibis are sound as well; however, several details don't add up, leading to the truth.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Tell Me You Love Me
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #17 - Tell Me You Love Me

    S8:E1

    Ashley Pittman thinks she hit the lottery marrying Jeffrey Scott, and he gives her a cushier life than the one she left behind in small-town Louisiana; however, behind closed doors, a secret soon turns deadly.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Friends Outside of Work
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Friends Outside of Work

    S10:E1

    Young parents Gary and Tasha Bentley are living the good life. They’ve got high-paying jobs, a nice house, and regular vacations to the tropics -- but just five years into their marriage, someone’s plotting an exit strategy that ends with a bullet.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Cabin Fever
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #19 - Cabin Fever

    S10:E10

    Molly McAfee and her partner, Adam Buchanan, cherish weekends at their cabin in the woods with all the family. It’s the perfect place for sons Nolen and Gavin to soak up nature, but someone has plans to burn everything down to take what they want.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for I Saw Dad Kill Mom
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #20 - I Saw Dad Kill Mom

    S12:E1

    The lives of a beautiful young family in Long Beach, NY, rip apart when 5-year-old Audrey witnesses her mother, Diane, brutally stabbed to death. To Audrey's horror, her mother's murderer is somebody very close to home.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Body Type
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #21 - Body Type

    S5:E4

    Jason and Lindsey Lee are destined for each other. However, marriage can have its highs and lows. When the young couple decide to change their lifestyle to reignite the spark in the relationship, it comes with deadly consequences.

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    Director:Unknown
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  23. Background image for It Was All Of Them
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #22 - It Was All Of Them

    S8:E5

    When divorced mom of four Krystal Humphus marries single dad Nathan Maddox, she is over the moon that she’s found a man who loves kids as much as she does. Little does she know that her dream of a big, blended family will soon become a nightmare.

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Broken Heart in Broken Arrow
    7.6/10(31 votes)

    #23 - Broken Heart in Broken Arrow

    S8:E6

    21-year-old mom Lauren Kidd takes an unconventional route through life, but she always follows her heart. It leads her to love, a good job, and great friends. The future should be bright, but there’s a darkness lurking that no one can stop.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Safe At Home
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #24 - Safe At Home

    S8:E7

    Doris Hoskins spends her adult life repeatedly looking for love, and it seems she’s finally hit the jackpot the fourth time around. However, something dark takes root behind closed doors, and her happy new life is about to spiral out of control.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Put Yourself Out There
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #25 - Put Yourself Out There

    S8:E8

    As gentle giant Randy Ferguson approaches his 40th birthday, his sisters worry that he’ll never have a family of his own. That all changes when Randy meets single mom Angela Phillips, but the beautiful life they build together hides an ugly secret.

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    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Tempest" is the best rated episode of "American Monster". It scored 8.3/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/18/2024. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Day Three After Murder".