The WORST episodes of Murder in the Heartland (2017)
Every episode of Murder in the Heartland (2017) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Murder in the Heartland (2017)!
Every episode documents a town and its people through a murder that tore through it. The townspeople not only become our storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the puzzle that has forever changed their lives and how they understand their home.
#1 - Uncomfortable Truths
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/20/2024
Beth Kutz leaves work in Poynette, Wisconsin, and never comes home. Her disappearance sets off a firestorm of searches for this mother of two by the small-town community while investigators unearth the uncomfortable truths behind this beloved family.
#2 - Invitation to be Killed
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/1/2022
Locals stay quiet to protect their own when a recent transplant to Hartford, Kentucky, is found tied up and floating in a toolbox in a creek. Detectives work to find out what happened to 29-year-old military vet Tromain Mackall.
#3 - Solving the Unsolvable
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/2023
When Robin Baxter is found dead floating in the Ohio River, the entire town of New Albany, Indiana, bands together to find who's responsible. It takes over 20 years of crossing off suspects before an elusive clue cracks the case open.
#4 - Family or Feud
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/1/2024
After teenager Jessica Dishon is murdered in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, police must sort through her past relationships, jealous friends, and an old family feud to find the killer.
#5 - Summer's Deadly Fling
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/3/2024
The burnt body of Sara Summer, a mother of three, turns up in a cornfield. News of this grim discovery sends the people of the quiet town of Trenton, Tennessee, fearing for their safety while investigators search for clues to hunt down her killer.
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#7 - Money is a Motive
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/8/2024
Casey, Ill. looks to their own citizens when they find out a house fire didn't kill Scott Collins, it was murder; secrets revealed about his life aren't enough to lead to his killer, it's his German Shepherd, who holds the key to solving his case.
#8 - Unbrotherly Behavior
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/18/2021
A man's family believes his death is not a suicide - and they may be right.
#9 - Marriage into Mayhem
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/24/2024
After a cattle rancher turns up dead in his trailer home, the minuscule town of Driscoll, North Dakota, points fingers at everyone in the small population. Left with little evidence, it takes over a decade to hone in on his executioner.
#10 - Murder is Unpleasant
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/6/2022
A roommate reports 22-year old Liz Syperda missing, shocking the community of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Some wonder if Liz merely left town without telling anyone, but family and friends know something far more disastrous occurred.
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#11 - Dangerous Obsession
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2021
A murdered woman's coworker is pinned as a suspect after he finds her body.
#12 - Deadly Entanglement
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2022
A missing grocery clerk, 20-year-old Christina Ross, sets the town of Neenah, Wisconsin, in a panic after a gruesome discovery. An unlikely resident comes forward with information that leads detectives to the people in her tangled love life.
#15 - Living Among Liars
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/17/2024
When missing dental assistant and mother Sharon Ray is found dead in a well, the town of Grand Rivers, Kentucky, joins together to find who did this. Loved ones wonder if Sharon was living a lie when those closest to her become prime suspects.
#16 - Killer Creature
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/27/2023
Suspects arise after the stabbing of a beloved mother in her Tomahawk, Wis., home; when another stabbing occurs the next day, detectives race to place her exes, a high school and a taco joint under the microscope.
#19 - Money Can't Buy You Love
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/15/2020
When a local resident of Dunlap, Tennessee is picking up cans, he makes the shocking discovery of a murder victim's body floating in the river. Authorities must discover first who the deceased is and then who could have committed the horrendous crime.
#21 - Betrayal Begins With Trust
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/18/2022
When childhood friends Phillip Brewer and Jody Fortuna go missing, their families and friends fear the worst. The small town of Gillette, Wyoming bands together with detectives to solve this mystery of jealousy and deception.
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#22 - Death of a Ladies Man
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/2023
The shooting of local ladies' man Jim Cornwell outside his home takes July Fourth festivities on a tragic turn; after multiple suspects tied to Jim's romantic life emerge, a confession arises that shatters the image of an Ozark community.
#23 - Groomed for Murder
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2022
Tourist town Traverse City, Michigan, is turned upside down when 18-year-old Kalee Bruce lies bludgeoned to death at her workplace. Investigators feel the pressure to get this killer off the streets before they strike again.
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Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/2023
The grotesque murder of a beloved citizen, Betsy Ball, shatters the quiet farm community of Vinton, Ohio.
#25 - Witch Hunter
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/27/2017
Christmas is ruined when hikers in New Mexico stumble across Roxanne Houston's shallow grave; the murder rocks the community of Taos and tension builds between those with small town values and the outsider lifestyle on the Mesa.
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