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    Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 8 - Bloodshed in Boonsboro
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #1 - Bloodshed in Boonsboro

    S1:E8

    When a retired couple, Derek and Nancy Haysom, is found murdered in their home in 1985, the town of Boonsboro, VA, fears they have a killer on the loose. Neighboring police agencies join forces to hunt down the monster and uncover clues that may have them heading right into the devil's den.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 5 - Catch Me If You Can
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Catch Me If You Can

    S1:E5

    When Stephanie Bennett, a beautiful young woman, is killed in her apartment, Raleigh police must play a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse to obtain a DNA sample from her suspected murderer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 1 - So Many Women
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #3 - So Many Women

    S2:E1

    In February 1993, beautiful 20-year-old co-ed Shawna Hawk is strangled to death in the bathroom of her Charlotte, NC, home. Her murder ignites an investigation that leads police down a horrifying trail of bodies in pursuit of a diabolical serial killer.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 4 - Who Shot the Sheriff?
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #4 - Who Shot the Sheriff?

    S2:E4

    Derwin Brown wins the sheriff seat in DeKalb County, GA, and promises to clean up the department. Incumbent sheriff Sidney Dorsey and his associates will stop at nothing to hold on to their jobs. It’s a battle between good vs. evil, and someone ends up paying the price.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 5 - Lafayette's Little Sisters
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Lafayette's Little Sisters

    S2:E5

    Two young women, Lisa Pate (1999) and Mickey Shunick (2012), mysteriously disappear in Lafayette, LA, 13 years apart from each other. With a lack of evidence, police are stumped. It's a race against time to find out what happened to these two southern belles.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 9 - Bleeding Heart
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #6 - Bleeding Heart

    S1:E9

    Genore Guillory is a generous soul and a friend to all, and when she doesn’t show up at work one day, her colleagues are immediately concerned. When police in Clinton, LA, discover her battered body but no enemies, they are left to wonder -- who loved Genore to death?

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 3 - Knock, Knock, You're Dead
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Knock, Knock, You're Dead

    S2:E3

    In 1985, a gang of outlaws wreaks havoc on small towns throughout Appalachia. Posing as federal agents, this group of bandits prey on innocent citizens of eastern Kentucky -- leading the state police and the FBI on a wild goose chase.

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  8. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 3 - Evil Among Us
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Evil Among Us

    S3:E3

    In September 2004, fierce Hurricane Ivan rips through rural Chunchula, Alabama, leaving members of the tight-knit community to repair their town. But for Lisa Marie Nichols and her family, the storm has done more damage than they could ever imagine.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 10 - Friendship Under Fire
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Friendship Under Fire

    S1:E10

    Robyn and Carol ('Sissy') are best friends who've always been by each other's side. When Robyn's husband, Brian Davis, is found murdered in Lake Charles, LA, Carol is right by her side. But police uncover Brian's racy past and a love for women that may have been his demise.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 1 - The Perfect Poisoner
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #10 - The Perfect Poisoner

    S3:E1

    Prim and proper Marie Hilley of Anniston, Alabama, is left to fend for herself after a mysterious illness overtakes her husband. Despite a life insurance payout, her debts keep piling up as the same illness threatens to kill her daughter as well.

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  11. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 1 - Kissing Cousins
    6.8/10(22 votes)

    #11 - Kissing Cousins

    S1:E1

    A scandalous family relationship leads to the deaths of nine people in the premiere of this true-crime series examining Southern murders.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 6 - Directions to Hell
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Directions to Hell

    S2:E6

    Police find 18-year-old Chrisilee Barton covered in blood and clinging to life in her Augusta, GA, home. The case leads detectives on the hunt for a serial killer responsible for a long, horrifying series of murders and abductions of young women in multiple states.

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  13. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 5 - Music City Murder
    6.6/10(6 votes)

    #13 - Music City Murder

    S3:E5

    They say everything's just a little sweeter in the South. At least that's the case for Jim and Kelley Cannon, one of Nashville, Tennessee's finest young couples. But this fairytale isn't quite as enchanted as it seems.

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  14. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 6 - Terror in the Tar Heel State
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Terror in the Tar Heel State

    S1:E6

    After growing up in a tiny coal town and pulling herself up by her bootstraps, FBI secretary Melissa Galade Mooney had a whole lot to live for. When her promising life is suddenly cut short, friends wonder who would snuff out such a vivacious woman in her prime.

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  15. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 2 - Smooth Talking Devil
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Smooth Talking Devil

    S3:E2

    Sparks fly in Jackson, MS, and Bossier City, LA, when a smooth-talking cowboy comes to town and women start disappearing. Communities are on edge as police race to find answers. But how many more have to die before they find this devil in disguise?

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 4 - Homicidal Hospitality
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Homicidal Hospitality

    S3:E4

    Laura Ling is a single mom trying to raise her teenage daughter alone, until she meets Stephen Stanko, a down-on-his-luck author. Laura offers Stephen a helping hand and invites him into her family. His true nature soon shines through.

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  17. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 2 - Fatal Belle
    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Fatal Belle

    S1:E2

    Spoiled southern belle Pat Allanson yearns to be the next Scarlett O'Hara. She thinks she found the perfect Rhett Butler in Tom Allanson, but when her privileges suddenly come to a halt, she will stop at nothing to get the life she thinks she deserves.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 4 - Deadly Devotion
    6.4/10(17 votes)

    #18 - Deadly Devotion

    S1:E4

    Beloved preacher Matthew Winkler and his loving wife, Mary, seem like two peas in a pod. But they’re hiding some scandalous secrets. Before long their horsing and carrying on will leave one of them dead and the other one running for the hills.

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  19. Southern Fried Homicide Season 3 Episode 6 - Heart of Darkness
    6.4/10(6 votes)

    #19 - Heart of Darkness

    S3:E6

    Columbia, Kentucky, is the perfect place to raise a family, nestled quietly away form the hustle and bustle of city life. But, for one family - veterinarian Dr. Joseph Wellnitz, his wife, Beth, and their 20-year-old son, Dennis - darkness is seeping in, threatening to destroy their peaceful lives and answers will be a long time coming.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Southern Fried Homicide Season 2 Episode 2 - Romance is Dead
    6.1/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Romance is Dead

    S2:E2

    In 2010 in York, SC, Julia Phillips calls police to the home of her longtime boyfriend, well-known attorney and former mayor Melvin Roberts. Officers find Melvin murdered and Julia bound in duct tape. As detectives begin digging, they uncover a deadly scandal that rocks a small Southern town to its core.

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  21. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 3 - The Grim Reaper of Baton Rouge
    5.8/10(17 votes)

    #21 - The Grim Reaper of Baton Rouge

    S1:E3

    21-year-old Geralyn DeSoto, a beautiful, young graduate student is brutally murdered in her Baton Rouge, LA home. Hers is but one of a string of slayings that have police racing against the clock to prevent a serial killer from striking again.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Southern Fried Homicide Season 1 Episode 7 - Scandal in Hunt Country
    5.6/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Scandal in Hunt Country

    S1:E7

    In the posh expanses of Virginia's Hunt Country, the fiery relationship between billionaire heiress Susan Cummings and her Argentine polo-playing boyfriend Roberto Villegas comes to a violent and shocking end.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Bloodshed in Boonsboro" is the best rated episode of "Southern Fried Homicide". It scored 7.8/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/24/2013. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Catch Me If You Can".