6.0/105 votesLoading...#1 - A Complex Affair
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 7/28/2023
When 55-year-old retired Marine captain Jessie Grimes is shot to death in his home in August 1986, Santa Ana detectives quickly focus in on his 25-year-old son Michael, who had found the body. The apartment complex where the murder took place holds many secrets, which ultimately lead investigators to the real killers.
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6.1/1018 votesLoading...#2 - A Legacy to Die For
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/2020
After a fire breaks out at a hill-top mansion, OC detectives discover two bodies riddled with bullets. Police must investigate the affluent and seedier side of the victim’s past to discover who would take these measures to erase their existence.
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6.3/106 votesLoading...#3 - Tragedy in Tustin
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 7/14/2023
The vicious murder of an immigrant family's oldest son sends shockwaves through Orange County's tight-knit Vietnamese community and leads detectives on a multi-state chase that ultimately captures two killers.
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- 6.6/1022 votesLoading...
#4 - The King of Orange County
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/2020
The larger-than-life owner of a strip club empire is mowed down with a machine gun before the gates of his Orange County estate. The secrecy surrounding the clubs and their employees makes the case extremely challenging for investigators.
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- 6.6/1010 votesLoading...
#5 - Murders, Mobsters, and the Mustang
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/19/2021
When wealthy Buena Park entrepreneur Jimmy Casino is violently executed and his girlfriend, Shelly Fisher, is raped on January 2, 1987, investigators are faced with a mystery that spans decades. Detectives ultimately uncover a web of murder, mayhem, and mobsters.
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6.6/107 votesLoading...#6 - Campus Killer
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/7/2023
When an ambitious college student is stabbed to death after a campus concert, the brutality of the attack leads police to believe it must have been personal. The resolution nine years later, however, proves darker than anyone could have imagined.
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6.7/107 votesLoading...#7 - Stolen Youth
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 7/21/2023
In March 1985, 23-year-old wife, mother and stepmother Linda Bailey Brown is shot and killed in her own bed in Garden Grove in what seems to be a sudden crime of rage. Her husband David says his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon shot her stepmother and ran off. But, the true killer is shockingly revealed years later to be a twisted master of manipulation.
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- 6.8/1016 votesLoading...
#8 - Sleeping with the Enemy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2020
A rising star financial whiz is brutally murdered in his seaside Huntington Beach home where the only witness, his wife Dixie, was also assaulted. After years of determined and methodical investigation, the shocking true killer is revealed.
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#9 - A Grave Mistake
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/2/2022
The disappearance of 62-year-old divorcee and mom Carolyn Avdeef in 2005 sends her Lake Forest neighbors and loved ones into a tailspin. The search for answers leads investigators through three states with a dramatic conclusion no one saw coming.
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#10 - Jewels And Jinxes
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2022
Investigators uncover unusual suspects and an even more unusual motive after a local Santa Ana jewellery salesman goes missing and is presumed dead.
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- 6.9/1019 votesLoading...
#11 - A Deadly Double Life
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/2020
Keeping up appearances is key in the OC, but when the Stahls are found shot to death on the side of the Ortega Highway, the façade turns deadly. The case leads detectives down a dark path through a series of scandalous and twisted love triangles.
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- 6.9/108 votesLoading...
#12 - American Nightmare
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/19/2021
A Taiwanese jet-setting tech millionaire Jim Peng finds himself at the center of the 1993 double murder investigation of his much younger Chinese girlfriend Ranbing 'Jennifer' Ji and their baby boy Kevin in Mission Viejo. But what detectives uncover shocks everyone – including the tycoon in the middle of it all.
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- 6.9/1012 votesLoading...
#13 - Blood Money
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/26/2021
Three people - Bill King, his wife Renee King, and friend Clyde Oatts - are brutally gunned down in the Kings' gold coin shop in swanky Newport Beach in 1989; Bill King was shot multiple times, once in the head, but eventually was the only survivor while the other two died at the scene. With little to go on, detectives slowly piece together a murder plot that didn’t exactly turn out as planned.
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- 6.9/1010 votesLoading...
#14 - Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 6/9/2023
When a handsome hockey player and a single mom are found dead in an upscale Newport Beach condo, loved ones have no idea how they knew each other. The discovery of a link to another area attack launches the race to catch a killer.
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7.0/1030 votesLoading...#15 - Wrong Turn
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/2020
The execution-style murder of a Fountain Valley wife and mother shocks the OC, and leaves police with no leads on motive. The community bands together to find justice until a similar shooting reveals the truth behind a murder plot gone awry.
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- 7.0/1017 votesLoading...
#16 - A Tale of Two Brothers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2020
The brutal murder of three members of a family in an old monied Fullerton enclave reverberates throughout the neighborhood and the rest of Orange County. The investigation reveals the family’s dark secrets and a tragically OC motive.
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#17 - A Slow Death
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/12/2021
Well-known school board president, wife and mother Janet 'Jan' Overton, battling a mysterious illness, collapses and dies in her driveway in Dana Point in 1988. But when the coroner reclassifies her death as a homicide, investigators must unravel the cause behind her baffling demise.
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- 7.0/1010 votesLoading...
#18 - Lethal Lies
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/16/2023
A young woman tells her mom she's going out for a night with friends and never returns home in a puzzling case that went cold for nine heartbreaking years until a shocking confession breaks the case wide open and exposes the brutal missing piece.
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#19 - Christmas Catastrophe
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/23/2023
When a wealthy churchgoing woman is found murdered in her bedroom just a week before Christmas, investigators initially believe this is a robbery gone wrong. The painstaking investigation, however, uncovers a killer much closer to home.
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7.1/1021 votesLoading...#20 - Love Lost at Sea
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/15/2020
Thomas and Jackie Hawks live aboard their luxury yacht until their disappearance sparks an investigation that turns on the alleged sale of their yacht.
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- 7.1/1010 votesLoading...
#21 - A Deadly Obsession
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2022
Detectives get caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse when a young couple is brutally attacked in an upscale Placentia neighborhood.
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7.1/109 votesLoading...#22 - Money, Lies, and Murder
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/30/2023
Investigators working on the cold case murder of a beloved Orange County millionaire uncover a box of old tape recordings that reveal long-buried secrets, leading them on a path to finally nail the killer.
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7.2/1026 votesLoading...#23 - Spoiled to Death
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/2020
The Sachs family seems to be living the OC life in their hilltop mansion when their family is suddenly torn apart by a vicious shooting in the middle of the night. Investigators reveal a surprising list of enemies who had the victims in their sights.
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7.2/1010 votesLoading...#24 - Driven to Kill
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/2/2023
When two loyal employees at a family-owned mobile home business are gunned down at work, detectives are left with no hints towards a motive. A hunt for a missing car, however, finally reveals a killer driven by old-school Orange County intentions.
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- 7.3/107 votesLoading...
#25 - Nightmare in Laguna
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/26/2023
After a beloved party planner at an iconic Laguna Beach hotel is found murdered at home, investigators use high-tech tools and old-fashioned shoe leather to capture two killers and restore calm to the tight-knit beachside community.
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The Worst Episodes of The Real Murders of Orange County
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Horrific and salacious cases rock Southern California's wealthy coastal community. From a murder-for-hire gone wrong to families turning on their own, viewers hear the harrowing...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"A Complex Affair" is the worst rated episode of "The Real Murders of Orange County". It scored 6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/28/2023. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Legacy to Die For".