The WORST episodes of Homicide Hunter: American Detective

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

In American Detective, Kenda trades in his own case files to bring viewers astounding investigations from across the country, with each episode featuring a different homicide detective whose tireless efforts helped put a killer behind bars and bring justice for the victim.

Last Updated: 5/5/2025Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Continuing
Drugstore Cowboy
star
7.38
26 votes

#1 - Drugstore Cowboy

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2022

The murder of a young entrepreneur in the entranceway of his family home, sends shockwaves through his affluent seaside community. To catch the killer, Detective Dale Mason must navigate a tangled conspiracy and outwit a band of career criminals.

Watch Now:Amazon
Tale of Two Knives
star
7.39
36 votes

#2 - Tale of Two Knives

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/2021

A med student is found pinned to her bedroom floor with a large knife. Det. Frank Dillard must employ his skills as an interrogator to hunt down a serial killer.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
What She Saw
star
7.44
39 votes

#3 - What She Saw

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/10/2021

A slain woman's disabled child may hold the key to solve a double murder.

Watch Now:Amazon
Hazard Lights
star
7.46
48 votes

#4 - Hazard Lights

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/2021

A depraved killer snuffs out the life of a promising young schoolteacher.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
From the Deep
star
7.46
52 votes

#5 - From the Deep

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/13/2021

Some three miles off the Jersey shore, boaters discover the remains of a 16-year-old girl. An unlikely clue leads detectives to the killer’s cold-blooded conspiracy.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.47
17 votes

#6 - The Rose Tattoo

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/26/2024

The body of a South Carolina man turns up floating in the Black River. Investigator Allen Morris, working his first homicide case, must scrutinize the victim's wife and mistress and ultimately untangle the web of deceit surrounding his disappearance.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
A Letter From Hell
star
7.50
6 votes

#7 - A Letter From Hell

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2025

A double murder leads police to a KKK rally and a confession from “Hell.”

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Mr. Nobody
star
7.50
8 votes

#8 - Mr. Nobody

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2025

Jacksonville deputies locate the bones of a missing woman. As Det. Mechelle Soehlig pieces together the victim’s final steps, a trail of clues lead her from the site of a late-night house party to a mysterious Icelandic biker known as “Viking.”

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Prodigal Son
star
7.51
37 votes

#9 - Prodigal Son

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/2022

A hardworking father of five lies dead on his kitchen floor with a bullet to the back of the head. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Det. James Colley must untangle a web of twisted relationships and bizarre fantasies.

Watch Now:Amazon
"Murder, Murder, Murder"
star
7.55
65 votes

#10 - "Murder, Murder, Murder"

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2021

A Seattle woman is brutally murdered close to a homeless encampment.

Watch Now:Amazon
The Creek
star
7.58
40 votes

#11 - The Creek

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2022

A home health care aide's body floats in a rural Connecticut creek, and detective Garritt Kelly joins the investigation to bring justice to a community gripped by fear. But Kelly will need to employ burgeoning forensic technology to secure a conviction.

Watch Now:Amazon
Fourteen Stories Down
star
7.61
74 votes

#12 - Fourteen Stories Down

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2021

A presumed suicide shifts to foul play when a second dead body turns up.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Radio Silence
star
7.62
29 votes

#13 - Radio Silence

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2022

The body of a promising young radio host turns up near a road in south Houston. Det. Harris takes the case, and uncovers a tragic tale of love and deceit.

Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.67
18 votes

#14 - Torso

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/3/2024

Amongst the ashes of a barn fire, North Carolina investigators discover the remains of two women - dismembered. Agent Nick Deming must dig into the victims' personal lives to uncover a twisted revenge scheme and a killer.

Watch Now:Amazon
Run the Wickets
star
7.68
34 votes

#15 - Run the Wickets

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2022

The former mayor of Potowan Point, Ohio, turns up dead in his hunting cabin. Detective Ryan Allar and his team begin the search to figure out if this is political retaliation or something more personal. What they find hits a little too close to home.

Watch Now:Amazon
Black Water
star
7.68
41 votes

#16 - Black Water

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/17/2021

In Pennsylvania, the body of a computer programmer is found submerged in a bathtub. Leads are scarce until detectives uncover a series of troubling voicemails.

Watch Now:Amazon
A Face With No Name
star
7.71
38 votes

#17 - A Face With No Name

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/3/2021

An industrious teen learns there's a fine line between friends and killers.

Watch Now:Amazon
Barn of Horrors
star
7.71
7 votes

#18 - Barn of Horrors

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2025

After someone abducts a vivacious Ohio undergrad in broad daylight, local police join forces with the FBI. The discovery of blood-soaked evidence kicks the case into high gear and brings investigators face-to-face with the depths of human depravity.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.77
13 votes

#19 - The Highway Hunter

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2024

A scene straight out of a horror film unfolds outside of a Colorado police station, leaving one woman clinging to life and a second violently abducted; Det. Rick Archer soon uncovers a disturbing pattern that may have started a decade earlier.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.78
18 votes

#20 - Six Pounds of Pressure

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2024

A mother raises the alarm when her daughter goes missing from the Colorado house she had recently moved into; while Det. Ben Endreson is investigating, an unusual suspect comes forward to confess her involvement, but her story doesn't quite add up.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Body Parts
star
7.81
26 votes

#21 - Body Parts

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2022

Det. Flavell is called in to solve his career’s most gruesome and senseless crime after two women from Greenville, South Carolina, find horrifying discoveries on their doorstep, along with ominous death threats and trash bags filled with severed human appendages.

Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.81
16 votes

#22 - Mr. Innocent

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2024

In Minnesota, firemen put out a housefire and find a woman's body inside; Agent Rob Fraik learns that the victim was babysitting a friend's daughter, who is now missing; it is a race against time to track down the killer with a horrifying motive.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.83
12 votes

#23 - The Barrel

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2024

In the Miami suburbs, a hard-working mother from Trinidad vanishes into thin air. Detectives Danny Smith and Jonathan Zeller soon uncover her secrets but then are stalled until they come up with a highly unusual way to smoke out the perpetrator.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Goodbye Horses
star
7.83
36 votes

#24 - Goodbye Horses

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/2021

A young mother is viciously gone down on Virginia’s Chincoteague Island.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.85
13 votes

#25 - Crimson Snow

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2024

Police find an accomplished U.S. Forest Service worker executed beneath a mound of snow in Northern California; a missing wallet and a pair of jumper cables send Investigator Greg Hagwood on a multi-state manhunt for the killer.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV