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.

Last Updated: 10/13/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Continuing
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6.63
24 votes

#1 - 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.

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6.69
16 votes

#2 - 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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6.84
19 votes

#3 - A Deceitful Heart

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/3/2018

A town in Michigan becomes scandalized when a partially nude corpse turns up; police sift through lies and alibis as they search for the killer.

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6.85
13 votes

#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.

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6.93
15 votes

#5 - 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.

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6.94
33 votes

#6 - 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.

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7.00
13 votes

#7 - 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.

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7.00
15 votes

#8 - 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.

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7.04
23 votes

#9 - Deadly Double Life

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/25/2022

Secrets emerge in a quiet neighborhood when young mother Stacey Shoemaker is shot dead. The once tight-knit cul-de-sac in Wagoner, Oklahoma, is now full of suspicions, finger-pointing, and fear.

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7.05
19 votes

#10 - Truth Will Kill

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/30/2022

A woman vanishes from her home in the neighborhood of Belle Center, Missouri, without a trace. Hoping to find Anita Dunn before it's too late, the community aids investigators in an exhaustive search.

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7.06
17 votes

#11 - Locker Room Secret

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/2023

Townspeople hold the clues to the murder puzzles that have forever changed their lives.

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7.08
24 votes

#12 - 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.

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7.10
31 votes

#13 - Beautiful Mess

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/22/2020

When twentysomething Patricia Richmond is found tied up, and murdered in her future in-laws' home, the resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado is at a loss. Who would have taken this bride-to-be's life in such a brutal way?

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7.10
30 votes

#14 - 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.

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7.11
19 votes

#15 - 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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7.13
24 votes

#16 - 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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7.13
23 votes

#17 - 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.

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7.14
14 votes

#18 - 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.

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7.16
19 votes

#19 - Murder On Beer Can Alley

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2022

A local in Algona, Iowa stumbles upon a smoldering truck with the body of a young mother inside. Investigators and family trace the last movements of Nicole Berte to uncover her killer.

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7.17
12 votes

#20 - A Killer Step

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/15/2024

Tiffanie Adams is expecting her first child but disappears from her home in Sullivan, Ind.; as police search for answers, they stumble upon dark secrets surrounding the men in her life.

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7.17
12 votes

#21 - Murder on the Mountain

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/27/2024

After a young father goes missing from work, the small town of Challis, Idaho, is abuzz with tales of infidelity and finger-pointing, leaving investigators to decipher what is fact and what is fiction.

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7.19
21 votes

#22 - New Mom's Night out

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2023

An inexperienced police department handles the tragic murder case of young mother Jessica Currin, leading to critical errors and false accusations. The case goes cold until Jessica's father protests the state of Kentucky to re-investigate.

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7.20
20 votes

#23 - Whispered Warnings

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2022

The community of Kankakee, Illinois, comes together to aid police in uncovering the vile killer in the shooting death of an up-and-coming model, Sarah Washington.

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7.24
17 votes

#24 - Field of Bad Dreams

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.

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7.27
15 votes

#25 - 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.

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