Murder in the Heartland documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it. What unravels is that these townspeople hold the clues to the puzzle that has forever changed their lives.
EPISODE 1
Fear Travels Fast
Aurora, Indiana hadn't seen a murder in decades until Leigh Jennings was killed in her own home. Residents are horrified when the beloved mother and hairstylist is found dead. In a case where everyone liked the victim, anyone could be the killer.
EPISODE 2
The Kind Sister
In Payette, Idaho, teacher Elizabeth Baune is the pillar of her community until she is stabbed to death in her own home; townspeople suspect Baune's kindness may have been behind her death.
EPISODE 3
The Wishing Well Mystery
In Germantown, Ohio, Alyce Seff's body is found in a wishing well, and the townspeople are shocked to learn the elderly landlady had as many enemies as she did friends; it will take police nine years to solve her case.
EPISODE 4
Scared Silent
In Shawnee, Okla., Marshall Dent goes missing on Christmas Eve, and the Native American community bands together; after weeks of searching, they find Dent in a shallow grave on sacred ground, and authorities scramble to find his killer.
EPISODE 5
Witch Hunter
Christmas is ruined when hikers in New Mexico stumble across Roxanne Houston's shallow grave; the murder rocks the community of Taos and tension builds between those with small town values and the outsider lifestyle on the Mesa.
EPISODE 6
A Deceitful Heart
A town in Michigan becomes scandalized when a partially nude corpse turns up; police sift through lies and alibis as they search for the killer.
Justin Hankinson
Natalie De Vincentiis
Jerry Rector
R Scott Hoffman
Fabian Jaime
John Henshaw
Phil Lott
Ari Mark
Jeanette Riley
