An Hour To Kill

Piper Streyle & Larisa DumanskyPiper Streyle & Larisa DumanskyPiper Streyle & Larisa Dumansky

Near Verdigre, Nebraska, Frances Thompson shoots Dean Frank dead, claiming self-defense. Police investigation reveals hidden details about their relationship and questions her version of events.

Despite two recent murders in the United States that are putting fear into scores of people, Bernadette unknowingly invites the murderer to her home. While she sees this as being kind and getting to know a new friend, could be the killer looking for their next victim.

A British aristocrat living in France agonizes over a life-altering decision - stay with his wife, or go with his pregnant mistress. He decides to seek the counsel of a French psychic. The decision he makes in this hour will lead to his own murder.

July 1st is supposed to be a time a celebration, but for the Kunz family of Athens Wisconsin it is a nightmare. The events of what happened that evening, will lead police on a years long investigation as they try to figure out who killed the Kunz family, and why? It will take precision investigating, 2 separate trials, a surprise witness, and a bit of luck if they are to catch a killer.

When a couple from Germany goes on vacation in Miami Beach, Dieter's wife is shot, and he's arrested for the possession of illegal guns. Dieter spends his days playing chess with his cellmate, demonstrating his ability to strategize and manipulate his situation. But even the greatest strategy can fail with one wrong move.

Sydney Loofe is a young Nebraska woman looking for a romantic connection. She meets another young woman through a dating app and the two hit it off. But is her match really who she says she is? Sydney goes missing and triggers a multi-state search, leading investigators into the seedy world of sex-cults, frauds, and murderers.

Jake Millison has vanished without a trace. His friends and police has started a nationwide manhunt in order to find him, but with a connection to drug trafficking and a notoriously bad relationship with his family, his disappearance is appearing more dubious. It's not until his personal items start turning up in the possession of known enemies that police start to wonder what really happened to him. It will take a chance finding at the family farm to uncover his true whereabouts.

Edith Hallock and Joseph Michel are socialites enjoying all 1950's Acapulco has to offer. Not ones to shy away from being in the public eye, their disappearance is noticed immediately. As authorities struggle to find out what happens, it takes Edith's sister Ruth Hoffman to track their whereabouts through daily correspondence with her sister... and one name keeps coming up, could he be the killer?

Kirk Lankford is with his pregnant wife and young son at The Potter's House Church in Waipahu, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Kirk leads a band practice with his fellow churchgoers, but has plans immediately after the practice - to dispose of the body he murdered earlier that day.

Deputy Wayne Bisard has a bad feeling as he investigates the disappearance of Patricia Artz. He brings Detective Thomas Fiero back to the restaurant Patty owned with her husband, Kevin Lloyd Artz. Kevin is recovering from a recent brain operation, and is working tirelessly to cover up the grisly truth from investigators: that he has killed Patty following the surgery. Bisard and Fiero, not knowing of Patty's fate, must investigate the scene without Kevin's interference to discover the truth of Patricia Artz's murder.

Summer Inman is a custodian at an Ohio bank working the night shift. On her way home, she's tasered and abducted in a back alley by two men in ski masks. A state-wide search begins for the young mother and leads investigators to uncover an abusive marriage and a legacy of secrets and lies.

Betty Ann Findlay kills her boyfriend Marlon Keith Smith, dismembers his body using a neighbor's chainsaw, bags the remains, and tries to dispose of the evidence while stealing from and poisoning his mother to avoid being caught.

Friends Tatiana and Liubov trade the cold Siberian winter for a few weeks of sun and fun in Thailand. Their vacation package takes them to Pattaya City, a place known for its all night parties and sex tourism, dubbed 'the Sin City' of Thailand. The two attract a lot of attention from locals and Russian expats alike. When the women are killed by what appears to be a professional gunman, investigators must wade into the seedy underbelly of the city as they try to uncover whether the killings are linked to organized crime, or if this is merely a robbery gone wrong.

Dr. Dale visits his son Sean's apartment in St. Louis. They drink and discuss their troubled past before going for a drive, while Dr. Dale secretly harbors growing resentment and considers benefits of Sean's potential absence.

In Las Vegas Nevada, in one of the largest hotels on the strip, a front desk clerk is surprised when a departing guest demands that all personal information be erased from the hotel computer system. Meanwhile, several floors above, a housekeeper finds some irregularities while cleaning one of the rooms. What neither of them knows is that a Canadian gambler named Donald Idiens is missing - with $822 of his money still on the poker table - and an unidentified man is lying dead in one of the hotel stairwells. The clerk deletes information while the housekeeper continues to clean up the strange mess. Investigators must act quickly to identify the dead man and figure out who might have killed him - and why - before all of the evidence is erased forever.

When domestic abuse and alcoholism intertwine, it seems no-one can escape a tragic end. Hot tempered James Duncan arrives home after an evening at the bar, he tries to take his displeasure out on his wife and family, but it's up to them to protect each other from a tyrant, leading to circumstances previously un-imagined. A family desperate to protect each other will go to lengths so extreme, that not even the police can believe what's happened.

A man goes to Singapore on a shopping spree. A mother and son reunite in Thailand for a brief holiday. No one comes home. When expertly carved body parts start showing up, police know there's a serial killer on the loose. In these densely populated tourist destinations, police fear the perpetrator will disappear into the crowd and strike again. They will need both skill and luck to catch the butcher.

What starts as a normal day of running errands for the 89-year-old Fred, turns into the final hour of his life as he becomes the target of a stranger who's rolled into the small town of Turtleford, Saskatchewan. It is only through townspeople coming forward that the investigators can attempt to trace the movements of the stranger and bring him to justice.

In Gorman, Maryland, a small rural community in the Appalachian mountains, a 19- year-old woman spends a frenetic hour getting cleaned up, made up, and dressed for success - and then disappears without a trace. But before rushing off, she stubbornly refuses to tell her co-workers or her family where she is going - or who exactly called her on the telephone. Investigators must act quickly to find the missing woman - and figure out who is behind a series of mysterious phone calls which seem to be targeting young women who live in the area - before more of them go missing - or worse.

Despite there being several signs Julia and Tim aren't a good match, Julia decides to go ahead with the wedding anyways. When she doesn't return home from Christmas shopping and the whole community pitches in to find her. But her husband Tim doesn't isn't helping. But does that prove their involvement? Friends and family know Tim has not been good to Julia. But now there's a killer in the community, does being a bad partner mean Tim is the guilty one?

George Allen Smith and his Wife Jennifer are on a luxury cruise enjoying all the perks it has to offer. When an epic party leads to Jennifer blacking out, she awakens to George missing, all that remains is a blood stained scene. Investigators must sift through a host of suspects, tons of CCTV, and timed key cards to piece together George's final hour alive.

Michael and Thelma King are a well-off married couple enjoying early retirement in the paradise of St. Maarten. To pass the time, they make new friends and take on a new business venture on the island. But their time in paradise is cut short when a trio pays a not-so-friendly visit to their resort home.

The police are searching for a suspect in the first murder investigation in thirty years to hit the small town of Oakley, Kansas. Kelly is working in a bar the next town over when the suspect comes in for a drink. With the police on their way, she needs to keep the suspect, and the other customers, from believing they are anything but safe.

Wealthy heiress Muriel Collins Barnett is no stranger to luxury cruises. She is a woman who wants it all and has the money to get it. But who will she bequeath her fortune to? Collins and her manservant cruise into an hour of unimaginable terror where money can't buy time, and she won't reach the next port of call.

There are two million mine shafts that could be hiding a murder victim's body, and in a fateful hour, police discover the whereabouts of German backpacker Anne Neumann in Coober Pedy, Australia. Ten other murder victims could be linked to her death, and police know they're on the hunt for a serial killer.

Rodney is murdered one night when he goes out to work a job unloading a truck. Some time earlier, Rodney makes what could have been an insignificant choice, he goes out to get a tattoo. But as the investigation into his death kicks off, the time he spent getting his tattoo leads to the most important evidence in bringing his killers to justice.

In a single hour, Catherine Hill discovers that her lodger has left the body of a local girl under his bed - the latest in a series of victims across North America, from a man the newspapers dub The Gorilla Man. Catherine Hill's discovery would lead to the Gorilla Man's capture in 1927, ending one of the most infamous killing sprees of the twentieth century.

Kurt Douglas Johnson

In the wake of marriage troubles between Keith and Ronda Black, Ronda goes on a shopping trip with Keith's close friend, Howard Steadman. Howard must muster his courage during their time away from Keith to reveal the truth to Ronda: That her husband has asked him to murder her. Once the truth has been spoken, both Ronda and Howard will have to reckon with such a revelation.