The BEST episodes of Nightmare Next Door

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

"Nightmare Next Door" tells the tales of mysterious murders that rocked small-town America. Each hour brings you a new murder mystery and a new look into the evil that can lurk in the heart and soul of a tight-knit community. Interviews with investigators, prosecutors, family members and neighbors piece together the twisting tale of a classic whodunit.

Last Updated: 4/23/2025Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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#1 - Killer on South 1200 West

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2011

Karin Strom is discovered strangled to death in her home. When a suspect emerges, investigators don't have enough evidence for a conviction. It will take twenty-six years to ultimately prove their case, and the final outcome surprises everyone.

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#2 - Death in the Dark

Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/23/2014

When Audrey Giannotti is found shot to death in her basement apartment, the cluttered crime scene points to a burglary gone wrong, but police suspect some close to the victim.

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#3 - Bloodshed in Biloxi

Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/30/2014

Panic spreads through a Mississippi town when Lynette Jarrett disappears. With no body and little evidence, no one can solve this mystery. Only when a secret is revealed do detectives unravel a tale of deadly obsession that leads them to one greedy guy.

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#4 - The Art of Murder

Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2014

As 22 year old Kristin Huggins is about to make her artistic debut she suddenly disappears. Soon its clear that the painter from PA had a brush with disaster in nearby NJ. Despite their best efforts, it takes cops quite some time to catch her killer.

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#5 - Madison Murder Mystery

Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2014

Everyone in Madison, WI is shocked when Joel Marino is stabbed to death in broad daylight. No one can imagine who’d want to do in this sociable salesman, and the predator seems one step ahead of police until an unexpected twist leads to capture.

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#6 - Highway to Hell

Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/2014

When 18-year-old Lisa Kimmell goes missing on a desolate Wyoming highway, her family is frantic. . But when a fisherman reels in a grisly discovery, the mystery takes a sinister turn and the search for a young girl becomes the hunt for an evil predator.

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#7 - Thanksgiving Tragedy

Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/2014

When Chris Mader is shot in cold blood on Thanksgiving eve, no one in his Southern Maryland town is in the mood to give thanks. But as the years pass, all investigators run into are dead ends. Finally, an unlikely informant lead police to Chris' killer.

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#8 - Fallen Starr

Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/2014

When beloved wife and mother Starr Harris is savagely murdered in the woods behind her home, the trees hide more than just the killer's identity. The cold-blooded killing rocks tiny Drummonds, TN, but soon determined cops uncover a smoking gun.

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#9 - Lone Star Mystery

Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/2014

The crime rate in rural Royse City, TX is almost non-existent. So when quiet couple Dennis and Norma Woodruff is found murdered in their own home, it sends shock waves through town. As police investigate, it seems the killings...are a family affair.

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#10 - Gone

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/2014

In Stockton, California, 18-year old Jessyca Arro meets a dark fate. The twists and turns in the case keep this killer one step ahead until one last clue leads detectives to the mother lode.

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#11 - Mile High Murder Mystery

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/2014

Terence George is found shot to death in his own apartment and police are desperate to find answers. Terence's fiancée Tiffany Durst is nowhere to be found, leading investigators to dig into the young woman's rocky past.

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#12 - Murder At Sunrise

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2014

When Kathryn Hauser is brutally murdered in her home, the residents of a posh Albuquerque neighborhood are stricken with fear. Police receive numerous tips, but it’s a pair of shoeprints that leads them to a criminal who’s stayed one step ahead of the law

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#13 - Nightmare Over The Rainbow

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/28/2014

Before single mom Lori Leonard settles into her upstate New York home, she vanishes without a trace and detectives don’t know if she’s dead or alive. Only when a couple of Average Joes make an extraordinary catch do they reel in the shark who did Lori in.

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#14 - Jack Be Deadly

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/21/2014

Normal life in the quiet city of East Point, GA comes to a screeching halt when six people become random targets of a mysterious gunman. While police work round the clock to try and catch the killer, locals hunker down in horror wondering who's next?

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#15 - Deadly Deception

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/2014

When 19-year old Danielle Davis is found dead in her college apartment, strangled with the cord from her laptop, Statesboro, Georgia police know they'd better be quick and find this co-ed's killer. When they discover you can't judge a book by its cover.

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#16 - Trouble In Coal Country

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/31/2014

When 13-year old paperboy David Reed never returns home his hometown is devastated. How could one of their most familiar faces vanish into thin air? Two decades later, the case remains a mystery... until police get an unexpected blast from the past.

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#17 - Stealing Beauty

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/2014

When high school sophomore Kiplyn Davis never returns home after school, police suspect foul play. Investigators search her hometown for clues, but are met with little success. After years go by without any answers, dark secrets begin to be revealed.

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#18 - Murder In Paradise

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/2013

When pretty Nags Head tourist Janet Siclari turns up dead on the beach outside her hotel, the fun comes to an end. When a hurricane blows leads out of town, police wonder if the killer escaped too. Only time can help detectives catch the culprit.

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#19 - Where There's Smoke

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/4/2013

Joliet, Illinois fire fighters are shocked to find 28-year-old Melissa Plut strangled to death when they respond to a fire in her duplex. Police search the nurse's love life with no luck until a 9-1-1 call unmasks her killer hiding in plain sight.

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#20 - Murders Under The Mistletoe

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/2013

Holiday cheer ends in holiday fear, when Jean Wholaver and her two daughters are murdered in their home on Christmas Eve. Detectives in Middletown, Pennsylvania check their list of suspects twice and are shocked by the killer's true identity.

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#21 - Drink With The Devil

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/2013

When single mom Mary Stetson goes out to her favorite haunt, she ends up in a house of horrors. The folks of Manchester, New Hampshire are shocked by her brutal murder. But only a tip from a mystery woman reveals Mary's killer.

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#22 - Country Killing

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/2013

In early fall of 1992, the rural community of Wantage, New Jersey is rocked by the murder of beloved local Christine Schurman. Police are at a loss for suspects until a tip about another murder committed in Missouri connects them to their killer.

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#23 - Out Of The Past

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/2013

Holiday cheer ends in holiday fear, when Jean Wholaver and her two daughters are murdered in their home on Christmas Eve. Detectives in Middletown, Pennsylvania check their list of suspects twice and are shocked by the killer's true

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#24 - The Ties That Bind

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/28/2013

When the lifeless body of Christian Rojas is found battered, his friends in Bensalem, PA are beside themselves with fear. Detectives are on the hunt for a savage killer but are surprised that it's one of Christian's friends that has become a murderous foe

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#25 - Texas Terror

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/2013

When thirteen-year-old Texas City girl Krystal Baker is found dead off the banks of the Galveston Bay, investigators round up a herd of suspects. But with little physical evidence on the scene, it takes a dedicated detective to solve this case.

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