The WORST episodes of Hometown Homicide

Every episode of Hometown Homicide ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Hometown Homicide!

The urgency and intimacy of local news reports capture the murder investigations that turned small towns and communities upside down.

Last Updated: 9/27/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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7.00
26 votes

#1 - Local Girl Gone

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2019

When 15-year-old high school freshman Danielle Locklear, of Hope Mills, N.C., went missing in March 2014, her family and friends think a killer is in their midst, then a body is found in a creek near South River, weighed down with concrete blocks.

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7.04
23 votes

#2 - Route 29

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2020

August, 2013. 17-year-old Alexis Murphy, rising social media star and high school athlete, disappears along the infamous Route 29. A massive search by local and federal authorities yields zero results, until a security video reveals a chilling clue.

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7.18
22 votes

#3 - Hold the Line

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2020

In August 1992, millionaire Tennessee landowner Allen Roberts arrives home to discover his wife is missing. He tells police he received a ransom call for Doe's safe return. Slowly, the town turns on Allen — until police take note of one odd neighbor.

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7.22
18 votes

#4 - This Just In

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/2019

After 19-year-old college co-ed, Jessica O'Grady, went missing one night in May 2006, after leaving to see her boyfriend in Omaha, Neb., another woman disappears a week earlier which causes the locals to wonder if a serial killer is on the loose.

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7.27
22 votes

#5 - Have You Seen Me?

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2020

Debora Gail Moody vanished in thin air from her home in Ludowici Georgia. A decade passes in her case with no answers, but her family persisted by posting billboards all around town. 11 years later, a confession reveals the chilling details.

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7.46
26 votes

#6 - In the Neighborhood

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/2019

When 44-year-old high school teacher, Theresa Lockhart, of Portage, Mich., went missing in May 2017, her vehicle is discovered with nothing inside and as police begin the investigation as a possible homicide, with her husband as a person of interest.

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7.62
21 votes

#7 - Unsafe Anywhere

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2020

21-year-old Joel Larson is shot to death in a safe haven community for gay people in 1990's Minneapolis. Two more shootings terrorize the community as they realize a serial killer in disguise lives among them.

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7.67
24 votes

#8 - In Too Deep

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2020

Businesspeople John and Liz Calvert vanish in 2008 from Hilton Head, S.C.; friends, investigators and local reporters are shocked and in disbelief that a couple could disappear without a trace in such a peaceful place.

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7.67
18 votes

#9 - Hunting Season

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2020

Alisha Sidie disappears from a small vacation town in Wisconsin in 2008; family, friends, local reporters and police investigators recall the fear and sadness the crime instilled on their tight community.

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7.68
31 votes

#10 - All News Is Local

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2019

In August 2000, 17-year-old Jessica Carpenter is found murdered in her Aiken, S.C., home by her mother; local reporters and family members tell the story of a town frozen in terror as police search for a possible serial killer on the loose.

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7.78
27 votes

#11 - We're Watching You

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/2019

Forty-year-old Rachael Anderson disappears without a trace after calling a friend about a home improvement project she'll never complete.

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8.00
24 votes

#12 - I Will Find You

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/2019

When the body of 19-year-old Ali Kemp was found by her father at a swimming pool in Leawood, Kan., in June 2002, her father goes on a quest to find is daughter's killer; news reports and interviews with investigators and family are featured.

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