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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.