Blood Relatives
From the outside, families seem like harmonious units in loving homes. But you don't necessarily know what secrets families are hiding from the outside world. Narrated by actress Brenda Strong, the voice of Desperate Housewives character Mary Alice Young, this series explores families hiding the most extreme of family secrets: murder. Each episode explores a death in a family, unravelling the motives of the family members, all of whom are potential suspects - and potential victims.
Seasons
1. My Brother's Keeper
Air Date: 2012-06-07
In Springfield, GA, a family built their reputation on Christian values while raising three sons. A shocking 911 call reveals a grisly massacre and unveils a sordid tale of duplicity, desire and a killer in the family.
2. Reap What You Sow
Air Date: 2012-06-14
In Golden Valley, MN, a web of greed and corruption exists within a family that runs a revered landscaping business. In the aftermath of a grim murder in the family, a quest for revenge is unearthed, unveiling a killer within.
3. Blood is Thicker
Air Date: 2012-06-21
In Sugar Land, TX, a family's future seems bright until a vicious break-in leaves half of them dead. A shocking murder conspiracy is uncovered that traces back to a vengeful family member.
4. Sins & Spurs
Air Date: 2012-06-28
The Dorotiks are known as a fun-loving family in San Diego. But when financial issues plague the family's ranch, good times give way to tension and murder. Secret letters, hidden alliances, and wild horses hold the key to exposing a killer in the family.
5. The Deep End
Air Date: 2012-07-05
The Mullinexes appear to be the quintessential all-American family, until, in 2006, a body found floating in a local harbor near Huntington Beach, CA, reveals a dark history of alcohol abuse, addiction and murder.
6. The Ties That Bind
Air Date: 2012-07-12
In Buena Park, CA, when widower Pete Montemayor retires from his successful trucking company, his 3 children fight to take control of the family business. In a tense story of kidnapping, greed and deceit, a conspiracy is revealed with a family member at its core.
1. Splitting Heirs
Air Date: 2013-03-15
In Laceyville, PA, the town barber, Joe Colegrove, and his wife Marlene are thought to be perfect parents with a knack for raising strapping sons. But when half the family is slaughtered in their own beds, all eyes turn to the surviving kin.
2. Saints & Sinners
Air Date: 2013-03-22
In a wealthy suburb of San Diego, CA, a divorce attorney, Tim MacNeil, and his wife Doreen enjoy a charmed life with their two teenage children. When one family member is brutally murdered, a blood relative's diabolical conspiracy surfaces.
3. The Lies That Bind
Air Date: 2013-03-29
In Tucson, AZ, the churchgoing Sanchez family of six seems perfect. But when the decomposed body of one member is found in the desert, investigators find a killer living very close to home.
4. Flesh and Blood
Air Date: 2013-04-05
In Seminole, FL, police receive two frantic 911 calls from separate members of the Kyne family, each accusing the other of murder.
5. Paging Doctor Death
Air Date: 2013-04-12
For the disciplined Kazigo family in Westchester County, NY, secrets bubble to the surface and all roads lead to murder. A hunt for the victim's body leads investigators to unmask one family member hell-bent on revenge.
6. Family From Hell
Air Date: 2013-04-19
In suburban Placentia, CA, the Jessee family does battle with cancer, never suspecting another killer lurks within their midst. With survivors pointing fingers at each other, police embark on an epic, decade-long murder investigation.
7. Home Wrecker
Air Date: 2013-04-26
In the seaside town of Cary, NC, the Britt family lives a charmed existence until the housing market crashes, igniting a blaze of greed that will leave one family member dead and another behind bars.
8. Let's Slay Together
Air Date: 2013-05-03
In Tampa, FL, multimillionaire lottery winner, Jeffrey Dampier, is sharing the wealth with his extended family. But lady luck can be fickle, and this family's red-hot winning streak is soon to end in cold-blooded murder.
9. Dead Over Heels
Air Date: 2013-05-10
In the sleepy town of Bridgeville, DE, a beautiful autumn is interrupted by the mysterious disappearance of Billy Sproates and his uncle John Charbonneau. As investigators dig deeper, a family's disturbing secrets are revealed ... at the bottom of a shallow grave.
10. Cradle to the Grave
Air Date: 2013-05-17
In the city of Rock Hill, SC, the Robertsons seems to have it all: wealth, success and two loving sons. No one suspects there are dark secrets locked within their home's brick walls or that one family member's greed will lead to murder.
11. Buzz Kill
Air Date: 2013-05-24
When the quiet Connecticut town of Ledyard is shaken by the brutal murder of one of its most-colorful citizens, Buzz Clinton, investigators uncover a complex murder plot with a little girl at its dead center.
12. Rest in Pieces
Air Date: 2013-05-31
In the idyllic lakeside town of Nice, CA, Don and Mary Ann Duvardo seem to have it all: a dream home and three thriving children. But someone in the family is living a tangled web of lies. Soon, resentment and greed drive one blood relative to murder.
13. Devil Went to Georgia
Air Date: 2013-06-07
In idyllic Tifton, GA, the Evans family runs a charming flower shop and a successful trucking business and live seemingly perfect lives. But when infidelities threaten their bliss, desperate attempts to stick together end in murder.
1. 4 Women & a Funeral
Air Date: 2014-04-03
A family in Florida lives the good life with a successful business and two beautiful daughters. But when a naive new houseguest finds skeletons in the closet, one family member will seek revenge by bloodshed.
2. Murder Mansion
Air Date: 2014-04-10
In the town of Libertyville, IL, a couple appears to have everything: wealth, success and three wonderful children. But behind closed doors, a toxic mix of scorn, jealousy and greed boils over into a scene of shocking carnage.
3. House of Lies
Air Date: 2014-04-17
In Borger, TX, a dark family secret reveals at least one member is a wolf in sheep's clothing poised to thin the family flock ... by murder.
4. Home Sweet Homicide
Air Date: 2014-04-24
A family enjoys a healthy, natural lifestyle in the hippie haven of Evergreen, CO, until one of them is found brutally strangled. Homicide detectives discover this peaceful image is all smoke and mirrors.
5. Don't Kill the Messenger
Air Date: 2014-05-01
A family's Akron, Ohio-based cosmetics supply chain is one of the biggest in the country. But beauty only goes skin deep, and an internal fight for company control will expose an ugly underbelly of conspiracy, lies and murder.
6. Hell's Belles
Air Date: 2014-05-08
When drug dealers threaten an Oakland, CA, neighborhood, one family decides to stand their ground. But after their house goes up in flames, one family member hides a smoldering secret.
7. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Air Date: 2014-05-15
A family in Iuka, MS, seems to have it all: love, success and plenty of Southern charm. But they also have some very dark secrets, and soon, a penchant for sordid sex and a passion for poison will result in murder.
8. Duct Tape Divorce
Air Date: 2014-05-22
When one member of a Colorado family threatens to break their bond, the only way out is murder.
9. He Said, She's Dead!
Air Date: 2014-05-29
With a Coral Gables mansion and membership to the local yacht club, life's a beach for a couple who are both accountants. When suspicion and infidelity threaten to break family bonds, one family member is hit by the death tax.
10. Desperate House Knives
Air Date: 2014-06-05
A family in Riverside, CA, is living the American dream with a nice home and two hard-working sons. But that dream will soon become a nightmare as one family member threatens to sever family ties and somebody loses their head.
11. Southern Helle
Air Date: 2014-06-12
For a Starkville, MS, couple, friends and family are one and the same. But when small-town hospitality leads to dangerous liaisons, one family member decides the only way out is murder.
12. So Lonesome I Could Die
Air Date: 2014-06-19
In the small town of Munster, IN, a family's real estate business is flying high. But life for these jet setters is about to hit some turbulence as brotherly love turns into backstabbing, revenge and murder.
13. The Widowmaker
Air Date: 2014-06-26
A couple seems to have it all: success, happiness and loving in-laws. But behind closed doors, envy and rumored flirtation generate toxic hostility -- culminating with one family member executed in a remote industrial park.
1. Fresh Heir
Air Date: 2015-06-03
In Houston, TX, a lawyer and his large family enjoy the high life until one of them gets too greedy and sparks a multigenerational war that ends in murder.
2. Dead in the Water
Air Date: 2015-06-10
In Salt Lake City, two brothers' airline cleaning business, once overflowing with cash, is now steadily failing. With eyes dead set on living the high life, one person in this family will be worth more dead than alive.
3. Cradle of Lies
Air Date: 2015-06-17
An unconventional family is dragged into the headlines after one of their own is brutally murdered in rural Beaver Dams, New York. When police realize it's an inside job, mothers, fathers and brothers turn against each other.
4. Till We Cheat Again
Air Date: 2015-06-24
Residents of an upscale New Hampshire town think they’ve seen the worst until a body turns up in a shallow grave and members of one family all point fingers at each other.
5. Witchful Thinking
Air Date: 2015-07-01
A tight-knit, religious family in Chesapeake, VA, looks perfect, with two beautiful daughters and a successful business. But this family is torn apart when one of them washes up along the banks of the Great Dismal Swamp.
6. Blood is the New Black
Air Date: 2015-07-08
In the desert oasis of Tucson, AZ, a beautiful, young family's quick climb up the corporate ladder has them flush with cash. But soon, deceit and a cold-blooded murder will turn this family's dream into a nightmare.
7. At the Stroke of Madness
Air Date: 2015-07-15
In Orinda, CA, one of America's friendliest towns, one family's war of words turns deadly. Finger-pointing and shocking revelations will stun not just the town but the entire nation.
8. I, Thee Dead
Air Date: 2015-07-22
In California's fertile Central Valley, one family is harvesting greed, lust and murder. Financial issues and an unwanted pregnancy push one family member over the edge and another into an early grave.
9. It's Your Funeral
Air Date: 2015-07-29
The rocky Cape Cod coastline is bathed in blood after one family's fight for a fortune turns deadly. The investigation uncovers liars, cheaters and imposters on the dark path toward finding a killer.
10. A Brother's Blood
Air Date: 2015-08-05
A NASA contractor and his wife are living the dream with their three adopted children on the picturesque Maryland coast. Traditional parenting soon turns into military-style punishment, and the children start fighting back.
11. No Rest for the Wicked
Air Date: 2015-08-12
A couple of recent empty nesters are finally able to enjoy the fruits of decades of labor. Old vices come home to roost when one of the children doesn't quite make it on their own, and arguing escalates to deadly violence.
12. No Bones About It
Air Date: 2015-08-19
A farming family in Texas is so revered by the community that the entire town is named after them. But when several relatives want to start doing business differently, infighting and backstabbing lead to more than one death.
13. You'll Be the Death of Me
Air Date: 2015-08-26
In Dallas, TX, one couple's love story has brought together a large blended family. Personal and professional lives intertwine in harmony until jealousy and greed prove that one family member's true colors include blood red.
1. Rotten to the Core
Air Date: 2016-08-25
The heartland of Nebraska is not immune to murderous revenge. A once-happy family is frayed by anger and jealousy when an unlikely affair is revealed, and a scandalous tattoo seals the fate of more than one member of this family.
2. Mommy Dearest
Air Date: 2016-09-01
The suburbs of Detroit are a great place to raise a family, but one is quickly headed for disaster when affairs, lies and explosive arguments lead someone to an early grave.
3. Death Is in the Heir
Air Date: 2016-09-08
For one family in upscale Little Washington, NC, old family money and a get-rich-quick attitude put deadly targets on everybody's backs.
4. All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go
Air Date: 2016-09-15
Orange County, California, is known for sun, sand and surf ... and murder. A local family that has come up from rags to riches will soon find its luck has run out when murder comes knocking.
5. Rocking the Cradle
Air Date: 2016-09-22
In quiet, little Honesdale, PA, one family endures heartache, teen pregnancy and addiction but keeps moving forward. Only when someone from the past disturbs the delicate balance is murder in the midst.
6. Axe to Grind
Air Date: 2016-09-29
Montgomery, AL's upper crust social circle is about to play host to an uninvited party guest. Murder is on the menu when one family's distrust and finger pointing lead detectives on a cross-country trek for a killer.
7. Darkness Before Don
Air Date: 2016-10-06
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina make a perfect backdrop -- for murder. Pillars of the community are pulled into a nightmare when affairs, abuse and embezzlement lead to someone losing their head.
8. Children of the Scorn
Air Date: 2016-10-13
Three generations of an established household in the Pacific Northwest appear to have it all until a stash of guns is uncovered and a secret video reveals the face of a diabolical killer.
9. The Four Horsemen
Air Date: 2016-10-20
Bigfork, MT, is known for producing hearty men. Some are so rugged they seem programmed for murder. This tiny town will soon face not one but two murders that appear random but are actually connected in a shocking way.
10. Clash of the Tartans
Air Date: 2016-10-27
Southern Oregon is a campers' paradise, but for one local businessman's family, a weekend in the woods will become a nightmare. Open marriages and forbidden relationships will lead to one person's watery grave.
1. Bloody Valentine
Air Date: 2017-10-05
Police confront a grisly Valentine's Day surprise when a bullet-riddled body is found in a family home. The usual suspects all have alibis. Detectives follow a trail of secrets, manipulation and betrayal to get at the truth.
2. A Deadly Education
Air Date: 2017-10-12
In Yale, MI, police responding to a home invasion find one family member dead and another in critical condition. It doesn't take long for detectives to start suspecting the culprit could be someone very close to home.
3. Burning Love
Air Date: 2017-10-19
In Ore City, TX, firefighters extinguish a burning truck only to reveal the charred remains of a human corpse inside. It soon becomes apparent this was no accident and that there's something very evil at play.
4. A Killing in Rotation
Air Date: 2017-10-26
In Pueblo, CO, a fire reveals charred fragments of a human corpse. As detectives work to track down the killer, their investigation uncovers cracks in the foundation of a large, multigenerational family.
5. Wasted Away
Air Date: 2017-11-02
In Logan, OH, investigators receive word someone has been kidnapped from their job at the bank and driven off in a car that resembles a police cruiser. Eventually, detectives discover a personal connection between the victim and the kidnappers.
6. Brothers In Arms
Air Date: 2017-11-09
In Queens, NYPD detectives discover a bullet-pierced body stuffed into the trunk of a car. They quickly find themselves drawn into a dark tale of brotherhood, backstabbing and betrayal.
7. Thanksgiving Day Charade
Air Date: 2017-11-16
On Thanksgiving, police officers sent out on a welfare check in East Hartford, CT, uncover an unthinkable triple homicide. To unmask the killer, detectives must examine a hidden world of disinheritance, rage and dark accusations.
8. Sex, Lies and Videotape
Air Date: 2017-11-30
A frantic 911 caller informs police he's found a family member dead. At first, it looks like a simple case of suicide. But a deeper dig reveals a secret world of sex tapes, broken promises and unbelievable murder motives.
9. Deadtime Stories
Air Date: 2017-12-07
Police performing a welfare check stumble upon a brutalized body hidden inside an Alabama home's quaint garden shed. The most shocking part? Another family member perished on this property just two days prior.
10. Fatal Fuse
Air Date: 2017-12-14
Police find a homeowner dead in their driveway, riddled with bullets. Although one of the victim's family members claims to have witnessed the brutal attack, the alleged chain of events raises more questions than answers.
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Rating
6.7/10
Release Date
2012-06-07
Episodes
65 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Mike Mathis Productions