Season 01: Episode 01 examines the crimes of Timothy Jones Jr., who killed his five children in South Carolina in 2014. The episode recounts the death of his six-year-old son during a punishment, the subsequent murders of his four other children, and the events surrounding Jones's arrest and prosecution.
Ming Ming Chen killed her 5-year-old daughter after becoming frustrated with her lack of potty training. The mother and her husband concealed the body and fabricated a missing persons scenario to hide the crime.
Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael (3) and Alexander (1), by rolling her car into a lake. She falsely reported a black man had carjacked her while the children were inside, later admitting to the murders during police interrogation.
Samantha Kematch and her boyfriend abused their daughter Phoenix Sinclair over five years through verbal abuse, basement confinement, starvation, and fatal beating. They disposed of her body near a landfill and falsely reported her as a dependent to receive welfare.
On July 10, 2019, Michael Jones Jr. murdered his wife, Casei Jones, with a baseball bat. A month later, he strangled her two sons, then drowned her two daughters two weeks later. He stored the bodies in his home for weeks before placing them in his van for another two weeks.
On October 2, 2006, Frances Elaine Campione drowned her two daughters, Serena and Sophia, in a bathtub during a custody dispute with her ex-husband. She attempted suicide afterward but survived. The incident stemmed from her fear of him gaining custody due to prior allegations of spousal abuse.
On March 24, 2015, eviction crews discovered two children's bodies in a freezer at Mitchelle Blair's Detroit townhouse. Police confirmed she had killed her children and concealed their remains in the freezer for over two years.
In February 2016, Morgan Lawrence returned home to find her husband, Ryan, had taken their 21-month-old daughter, Maddox, and vanished. He later killed her by crushing her head with a baseball bat, set her body on fire, and disposed of her in Onandaga Creek.
Tiffany Moss, a former preschool teacher, abused her step-daughter Emani Moss, leading to her death from starvation in 2013. After losing her job, she became a stay-at-home mother, and with her husband's cooperation, she burned Emani's body and staged her disappearance as a runaway.
In 2017, four-month-old Sterling Koehn died from neglect after being left in a mechanical swing for nine to 14 days without food, water, or diaper changes. Severe diaper rash led to E. coli infection, while flies laid eggs in his soiled diaper, causing maggots to infest the area before his death.
JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund abused their son AJ Freund, forcing him into a freezing shower and beating him with a shower head in 2019. AJ died later that night; the parents buried his body before contacting police about his disappearance.
Candice Diaz and her boyfriend, Brad Fields, abused their 4-year-old daughter Gabby over four months, using violence to punish her for potty training accidents. They scalded her with hot water in a bathtub, causing septic shock that led to her death.