Brookey Lee West and her mother Christine Smith have always been at odds. At a young age, Brookey saw her mother go to jail for attempted murder leaving her alone with her Satanist father. As an adult, Brookey became a successful businesswoman, but she could never quite quit Christine. The two followed each other in and out of strange relationships and even stranger schemes. Soon, the pair moves to Vegas, and it isn't long before Christine goes missing. Brookey tells everyone she's put her mother in a nursing home, but this mother/daughter couple are more alike than anyone knows and there's only room for one.

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For the Stiles family, destiny was determined at birth. A rare birth defect called ectrodactyly has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the family has learned how to turn misfortune into profit in the strange world of the traveling carnival sideshow. Taking the spotlight on stage as the "Lobster Family", the family's trademark show draws in the crowds, but the most unsettling thing about them isn't their appearance, but what goes on after the curtain has fallen. Backstage, a dark existence of domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and shocking crimes binds this family together, before ripping them apart for good.

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Matthew and Tyler Williams were raised in their parents' own version of the Garden of Eden where they were raised according to the Book, and grew their own food as a family. But their life was far from perfect. Their eccentric father was extreme in his religious beliefs and his children were expected to follow in his footsteps. As Matthew and Tyler grow older their views become more outrageous. They soon make it their mission to rid the world of sinners and "the unclean." And with blood on their hands, the brothers say it was the Bible that made them do it.

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When the Bender Family moves west to open a tavern and inn along the Osage Trail in southeastern Kansas, the people of nearby Cherryvale are at first unaware of the diabolical plans this mysterious family is cooking up behind closed doors. The intoxicatingly beautiful daughter Kate uses her sex appeal, charm, and rumored supernatural powers to lure westward bound homesteaders back to her family's little house on the prairie, where the family commit a series of ghastly crimes together. And they get away with it. It seems that way out in the Old West, no one can hear you scream.

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Growing up as Jehovah's Witnesses in the small town of Salisbury, PA, Bryan and David Freeman were forbidden from celebrating holidays and making friends outside of their religion. When Brian and David become teenagers, they forsake their parent's rules and religion and find a new family Neo-Nazi skinheads who preach violence and hate. They shave their heads and instill fear in everyone around them, including their own family. It isn't long before the Freeman brothers are out for blood, and for those closest to them their days are numbered.

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Terry King always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family is destroyed when Terry dies in a mysterious fire and the boys go missing. Before it's over, a world of lies, deceit and a shocking murderer will be revealed.

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Two brothers born three years apart seem to share the same brain ... and knack for getting into trouble. Their childhood misdeeds started out small-harassing kids in their neighborhood, stealing from their neighbors-but as they grew, their behavior became increasingly strange, almost cinematic. The brothers worshipped the Nazis and violent gangster movies. But when the brothers go postal, and their lives turn into the movies they'd grown up watching, thus begging the question of whether or not life imitates art, or if art makes some people evil to the core.

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In any family, it takes years to build up fear and resentment, and the Komyatti family had finally reached their breaking point with patriarch Paul Sr. After taking early retirement, the old man spent all day drinking, and his family soon decided they'd had enough. With their mother on board, the children concocted a scheme to put their father six feet under but nothing goes to plan. After weeks of a shocking comedy of errors, the family decides it's time to put an end to the madness once and for all. What follows is a brutal murder that doesn't go according to script, and in the aftermath, the remaining members of the Komyatti family will turn on each other.

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Pauline Devor lived a happy life in Arkansas. But after years of butting heads with her teenage daughter Delores, Pauline sent her away to live with her father in Texas. When Delores returns decades later, little has changed between Pauline and her daughter. Delores is still head strong, but now has developed a drug addiction. Pauline has a new husband Bob and Delores and Bob become friends, and then some. United by a mutual enemy, Pauline, Delores and Bob conspire to kill Pauline in an evil chess game of money, drugs, sex, and betrayal. For years they explain it away to local police as a mysterious abduction, until a back-stabbing betrayal opens the case wide open.

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Even after Phyllis Phares' husband passed away, she insisted on staying in her friendly neighborhood on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia. But life takes a turn for the worse when the Mallo family moves in across the street. From the start, the family is an aggressive bunch, but Phyllis befriends their youngest child, Thomas. One night, Phyllis is horribly murder, and detectives soon suspect that Thomas and the rest of his family are hiding something. As the investigation heats up, detectives unearth a dark world of unspeakable abuse and neglect and soon an entire family will be placed behind bars.

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