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A Body in the Basement Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

6 Episodes 2023 - 2023

Episode 1

Killer in the New Neighborhood

Wed, Jul 19, 202342 mins

In 1978, a shocking murder in broad daylight terrifies a small Illinois town. The brutal crime goes unsolved for years, until an elite team of law enforcement investigators uses cutting-edge technology to dig up new clues and lay a cunning trap to catch a killer.

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Episode 2

Ice Cold Killers

Thu, Jul 27, 202342 mins

Youngstown, Ohio, 2017; Shannon Graves, age 28, went missing under mysterious circumstances. Months later, her partially dissected remains were discovered stuffed into a chest freezer in the basement of a rental home. Who put her there, and why did they store the freezer in someone else's basement? Why was she murdered so cruelly and discarded so heinously? In the end, the three culprits responsible for her disappearance and murder were Shannon's former boyfriend, Arturo Novoa, Arturo's current girlfriend, Katrina Layton, and Arturo's friend, Andrew Herrmann. Novoa, Layton and Herrmann were all arrested and convicted of various crimes regarding the death of Shannon Graves. They were all sentenced to varying amounts of time in prison.

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Episode 3

Murder on Repeat

Wed, Aug 2, 202342 mins

Rockford, Illinois; On June 6, 2001, 42-year-old Barbara Purcell (she was known as Lorrie to her family) failed to show up at work. A welfare check by police leads to the discovery of her body in the basement of her home. Barbara had been brutally murdered in her once-quiet suburban home. The hunt for her killer will lead detectives to a mystery that has been buried for over 14 years. In the end, the killer was her husband, Willard Purcell. He was arrested in 2003 and was found guilty at trial. He was sentenced to life in prison, but in 2015, he died in prison of cancer, after serving 12 years for Barbara's murder. During the investigation of Barbara's murder, detectives became aware that Willard's first wife, Crystal, had died in Rockford, Illinois on July 27, 1987 of eerily similar "coincidental" circumstances of falling down a flight of stairs leading to the basement.

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Episode 4

Chase and Lies

Wed, Aug 9, 202342 mins

When 32-year-old Adam Chase goes missing, police comb the woods and fields of Ontario County, New York, but come up with nothing. Adam's disappearance takes a months-long efforts of a private investigator to at last reveal the truth and Adam's terrifying fate.

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Episode 5

Missing Means Murder

Wed, Aug 16, 2023

A man vanishes from a small town, leaving behind a trail of strange clues that stumps law enforcement detectives and leads the missing man's neighbors to believe that a deadly imposter is living among them. When the man's body is found, the truth is more shocking than anyone imagined.

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Episode 6

Deadly Invitation

Wed, Aug 23, 2023

In 1999, a killer brutally murders an activist and member of the gay community Dennis Dolinger in the basement of his Washington, DC, home. With DNA technology in its infancy, the race is on to find the culprit before they strike again.

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