Felon will return shortly with Season Five. The new season is progressing, and release is not far off.

Until then, the feed will include a number of shorter episodes — brief examinations of individual cases and incidents that sit outside the main season’s structure.

Season Five is on the way. In the meantime, these mini episodes will bridge the gap.

This week, we examine three cases where violence was delivered not through force, but through patience, calculation, and substances chosen for their silence. These stories span more than a century, yet each reveals the same unsettling truth: the most deliberate forms of harm are often carried out by those who stand closest.