Bizarre Murders S1:E5

Mistaken Identity

A man hires a killer to bump off his wife, but instead, he kills another woman with the exact same name.

Shapeshifter

A young German grifter moves to America, adopts various identities and kills many people along the way.

Welcome Home

A young teen disappears from a small American town. Then several years later, he turns up, in Europe. But is it really him? And if not, what happened to the young teen?

Skeleton in the Closet

A man is murdered by his cheating wife's lover, who had been living in their closet.

Counter Punch

An intended murder victim turns the tables and kills her would-be hitman.

Smoking Bun

A murderer is caught when a footprint left in a hot dog bun next to the body is matched to him.

Dying for Love

A husband wanting to cash in on his wife's life insurance policy, poisons her with a lethal dose of nicotine.

Maneater

A cannibal searching the internet finds a willing participant in becoming his next meal.

Mommie Dearest

A young woman whose mother has made her ill her entire life, also known as Munchausen-by-proxy, turns the tables and kills her abusive mother. A young woman whose mother has made her ill her entire life, also known as Munchausen-by-proxy, turns the tables and kills her abusive mother. A young woman whose mother has made her ill her entire life, also known as Munchausen-by-proxy, turns the tables and kills her abusive mother.

The Luchalooters

Twin Mexican little people wrestlers are murdered by fake prostitutes.

Bad Fortune

A woman brutally murders a fortune-teller for incorrectly predicting her future and covers the bodies in white paint.

Stranger than Fiction

Life imitates art when a budding film-maker's obsession with television character and serial killer Dexter turns deadly, and he commits murder to research an upcoming film.

Fatal Attraction

A woman stages a sex-game with her husband in an effort to murder him, but only ends up implicating herself in the murder of her secret lover's murdered girlfriend.

Last Curtain

Amateur actor kills and dismembers the body of his friend in the attic of a theater, then kills another victim to try and cover it up. The motive - he needed money to pay for his wedding.

Sister Act

When a sister threatens to cut off her younger sister's allowance, she retaliates by killing her and assuming her identity. Then revels in the ensuing publicity directed at her for brave anti-crime efforts in her community.

Thrill Spree

In the spirit of Natural Born Killers, while on a beach holiday a bored young couple kill another couple for fun, and keep a scrapbook and other trophies of their crime.

Namaslay

A woman portrayed as the brave survivor of a brutal attack is charged with killing her coworker over a tank top and staging the entire crime.

Iron Murphy

Set in Depression-era Chicago, barfly Murphy survives multiple attempts on his life without even being aware his 'friends' are trying to kill him so they can cash in his insurance policy. Things that would kill an ordinary man (poison, exposure, being run over by a car) barely faze Iron Murphy.

Dark Horse

A horse-loving lawyer doesn't know he's married to a con artist fugitive; she teams up with a female lover and kills him with horse tranquilizer before stealing all his money.

Body Double

Muscle-car enthusiast goes to elaborate lengths to fake his own death, assume the victim's identity and collect his own life insurance-all to get out of money problems of his own making.

Vampire Diaries

A quiet, average teenager with an interest in the occult brutally murders his elderly neighbor in a ritualistic attempt to become an immortal vampire.

Sex, Lies and Smoothies

A wealthy expat fearing her husband his going to divorce her after discovering she's been having an affair, has her housekeeper serve her husband a kale smoothie laced with sedatives. Then she bludgeons him to death, rolls up his body in a rug and organizes for moving men to take it to her storage unit.

Anything for Love

A woman murders her husband and tries to swap his identity with that of her lover by burning his face and getting him plastic surgery. Their sinister plot is uncovered when her vegetarian lover refuses to eat spaghetti with meatballs, tipping family members off to his true identity.

American Booty

A swinging husband doesn't want to give up his mistress and playboy lifestyle, so strangles his wife and uses an air conditioner to fudge the time of death and make it seem like she was killed when he was away on a hunting trip. His cover is blown by a plate of linguine, an eaves-dropping teenager and a movie recommendation.

Hemlock Killer

A man with a genius-level IQ uses an extremely rare poison to kill his annoying neighbour simply to prove that he can get away with the perfect murder.

Emoji Overkill

A spoiled and troubled daughter plots with her boyfriend via emoji-laden text messages to kill her father while on holiday, then stuffs his body in a suitcase and dumps it in the back of a taxi.

Ice Queen

A woman desperate to become a mother kills both her ex-husband and her lover because they won't let her have a baby. She then dismembers their bodies and stashes their remains in the basement freezer of her vegan artisanal gelato shop.

Psychic Sleuth

A killer becomes so scared that a psychic's visions will reveal that he murdered his aunt and matriarch of the family's maple syrup business, that he confesses to the crime.

Sweet Transvestite

Set in the 1980s, a long-suffering wife has evidence of her husband's secret cross-dressing fetish and is blackmailing him so that she can get a divorce and custody of their daughter. When she threatens to expose his secret he kills her in a fit of rage.

Murder Most Fowl

A pet love bird tries to defend its owner by attacking his killer, and in doing so, collects DNA evidence that helps lead to a conviction.

The Liars and the Lustful

A soap opera actor blurs the lines of fantasy and reality and murders his beautiful co-star when the script calls for her to end their relationship.

Grifting Grannies

Two women in their 70s befriend and care for a homeless man in order to murder him to collect millions of dollars in life insurance fraud.

Truth Hurts

A humiliated young man kills his girlfriend after she reveals on a television gameshow that she has accepted money for sex. The ensuing media frenzy spurs police, who were initially doing nothing to look for the missing girl, into action.

Dumb Luck

Jesus a young Mexican man who has recently moved to Las Vegas to make a better life for him and his Mom, sees his dreams comes true when he wins big at the lottery. But, he falls under the clutches of a devious money manager and soon it's more than his money that starts disappearing. When the greedy money manager tries to bribe his childhood friend to pretend to be Jesus, he goes undercover to find out what really happened to his friend.

Dischord

A stagehand at a Metropolitan Opera House kills a young attractive cellist during the intermission by throwing her down a ventilation shaft after she rebuffs his advances. The knots he uses to bind her narrows the search down from hundreds of Met employees to just stagehands, and with other physical evidence in hand, the cops are able to zero in on him.

Snake Charmer

Set in small town Texas in the late 1970s, a former rodeo man turned barber tries to kill his wife by getting her bitten by a rattlesnake. After he gets impatient when she takes too long to die, he feeds her a drink laced with poison, the same way he killed a previous wife.

Oh, Deer

A greedy wife murders her unsuspecting husband and disguises it as a hunting accident. When police discover foul play, she already has her tracks covered and points the finger at her jealous ex.

Foul Plie

In the misguided hopes of somehow stealing the life of her beautiful, ballet-dancing neighbor Maya, mousy Tessa drugs her with a piece of poison lasagna, then bludgeons her to death with a ballet shoe and hides the body in a storage locker. Her obsessive diary leads police to her and her sinister plan.

Stripped for Cash

A stripper and a wannabe Russian gangster figure out the perfect plan to keep money flowing - until their gambling gift-horse falls asleep early.

All Brawn, No Brains

A gang of useless thugs botch multiple kidnapping and murder attempts on their first target, and then accidentally kill their second target before getting any money out of him.

Bludgeons and Dragons

Two brothers murder their friend for his Magic: The Gathering cards and use the money they get from selling them to buy the materials to hide the body.

The Talking Dead

Possessed by the spirit of a murder victim, a woman with no previous psychic abilities names the killer and specific details of the crime, leading police to a suspect, and eventually an arrest and conviction.

Sausage Fest

When a young man ends his affair with his married girlfriend so that he can take up with a younger woman, the jilted lover obtains a rare poison and drugs his leftovers.

It's Raining Mannequins

A series of unsolved murders in a small tight knit town is made all the more horrifying by the regular appearance of bloody and mutilated mannequins, setting the people of the town on edge.

It's a Lying Game

A young man kills his father with a crossbow because he fears he'll expose his lies about not having a job and being deeply in debt to his fiancee weeks before their wedding.

Little Black Book

One of a basketball player's twelve lovers plot for months to kill his girlfriend to eliminate her as a love rival. She cyber-stalks him, makes her own silencer, and disguises herself as a nun to carry out the attack, but is caught on a wire confessing details of the murder to the basketball player.

Answered Prayers

A married couple who witness a murder are about to be killed themselves for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when they pray, the killer is moved and decides to let them go - but the witnesses then become the prime suspects, jailed on murder charges. While awaiting a trail they will certainly lose, a 'miracle' witness reveals what really happened and the couple are released.

Gaslighter

After a failed hit on her husband, a conniving wife hatches a cruel plan to make him so paranoid that someone is out to get him that her self-defense claims once she intentionally shoots him is believable. She gets away with murder, until she tries to kill for a money again.

Outta Sight

When an artist can't focus on anything other than the girl he's obsessed over, he decides to kill her so that he can clear his mind and focus on his art.

Repeat After Me

A small town diner is robbed, and the owner murdered. There's only one witness, and just because it's a bird, doesn't mean it's not talking.

Piece of the Puzzle

A small town celebrity goes missing, just as body parts start tuning up around town.