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I admit that I am morbidly fascinated by the darker side of humanity and this show definitely skews more in that direction, but I wasn't expecting the heart-rending emotions that it showcased as well. This is truly a sad show (in a good way) that often brings me close to tears while viewing it. It is definitely worth watching.

This should almost be reclassified as a horror which makes it being a documentary even more harrowing.

Similar to a documentary, this starts off from a low level and slowly builds. There is a victim or witness who is usually a family member or close associate who lays all the back ground for what they are about to reveal. Like a good horror the build up is slow and deliberate. They take you into their world and show you how the situation slowly and almost casually started. There is a lot of reflection and this can only be done in hindsight with full knowledge of what was coming. I can imagine the subtle clues and signs were just that and certainly nothing to run to police or run away from. A lot of families have these types of characters and usually they grow out of it and go on to be normal family people. These stories are about the ones that did not.

I think the worst stories are where the person being interviewed had no knowledge of what was to come, weren't fully involved and when it did come felt guilty for not being a better parent, son, sister or what have you. The grief is real and the remorse, although unwarranted, is overwhelming.

Although there is an amount of recreation, I don't find it overly dramatic, more to put the viewer into the witnesses or victims situation. To see what they saw and went through. The people being interviewed genuinely seem to have been through hell, and are now almost devoid of emotion when they talk about it. It's a very eye opening look into how evil people can be and what effect that has on the innocent.

The reviewers who have attacked the people being interviewed for not seeing the signs and acting or just not getting out, accusing them of being weak and generally being laptop cowboys are the ones in need of help. The very lack of compassion and failure to understand that real life is not like the movies is concerning. That most of these stories involve innocent children shows me they haven't watched many of the episodes. Time to push the keyboard away and go out and see how the real world works.

The presentation and ability to tell a real story and sell the heart wrenching devastation that follows, earns an 8 from me.

These stories are so well put together that they really make the viewer feel the dread and heartache the 'evil person's' family lived with. The only thing I find kind of annoying is how every (at least all I've seen so far) family portrayed lives in a beautiful, large, craftsman style home. Seriously?! It takes me out of the story a little bit.

The first time I sat and watched this documentary I was completely addicted my favorite part of the show is where the family and friends tell the story holiday remember it some stories are better than other but the majority of them are awesome very heartfelt the stories that the victims tell are devastating I cannot imagine going through something like that and surviving I give a lot of respect to the victims of these monsters who are brave enough to share the stories of their nightmare it's us the viewers this show could definitely save someone's life if someone someone watching a episode they could be in same type or a similar situation that these victims were as they're watching the episode they could get the courage and the strength you need to do the right thing and the safe thing for them and their families to be saved and save someone else's life bi reporting what they know and getting out just in time before a tragedy happens and sad to say it's a very entertaining documentary but it is more of a changing someone's life or saving someone's life type of documentary I loved it theme song it's very catchy and addicting I want to thank all the victims family members and Friends who share their stories with us. Does anyone know if the homes that the victims are being interviewed at are those real homes or just a studio that looks like a home I've had that question nagging me for years I want to know if that's where do victims live now? Some of the homes are just so nice and beautifully decorated they just don't match the people that are supposed to live there that's why I'm not sure if those are the homes they live in it or like I said just a studio to make it look like a home at the time of the interview some of the people are on the show are a little rough on the edges and it doesn't look like the decorating in the house would be their taste do you know what I'm saying?

I love watching true crime documentaries and this one is up there as one of the best !!!, it grips you from the start and is really well made

The stories are told by the real victims, not actors, who visibly shake and cry while they tell their story, so you feel their fear and pain. It is very intense and emotional. The stories are true and scarier than any horror movie I have seen.

What would you do if the person you loved most turned out to be a devil in disguise.... Most of us will never have to answer that question. The people in this series do. A harrowing insight into the people who have committed some of the most heinous unthinkable crimes as told by their immediate loved ones. Many of whom have never spoken before. A raw emotional series that look at the life leading up to these tragic events and how it affects everyone invoked. Very highly recommended.

I'm absolutely addicted to crime shows but IM just not into those shows with crazy titles on ID. However, I stumbled upon this show one day and was super impressed at the layout of the show; the interviewer would hand the interviewee pictures and they would talk about it to tell their story. I don't like drama reenactments but this show uses them sparingly and when they do use it, it's to describe something that can't be described through words. It reminds me more of a 48 hours layout, besides you don't see or hear the interviewer, except an occasional faint voice. If your all out of datelines, 48hrs, and criminal justice this is definitely up your alley or if your into true crime at all check if out!!!!

Love this. Really well presented but a lot of the time, you really can't side with the victim due to their ridiculous lack of awareness. Awful what has happened to these folk but some of the episodes the parents/relatives may as well have shone a torch on the maniacs.

I really cannot understand why some of these people continue with their relationships. For example; why would a lady with 4 girls stay with their new man when she finds out he has been convicted of molesting a 6month old.

In the end I think that she has basically cost herself and her kids a real decent life clear of the awfulness.

Just finished watching Evil Lives Here, "She was kept in a tree stump". I'm find myself angry with these people and their poor choices. I use to have sympathy and empathy but no longer! These men n women in the last couple of seasons are just as vial as their tormentors. Cowards whose self being is more important than making the moral decisions of what's right! They need to be judged and found as guilty as if murderers themselves! Every damn time they have the opportunity to do the RIGHT thing, they don't! I'm getting sick of them. The director n producer are finding people who aren't victims but are themselves perpetrators! I find I'm getting so angry with them I want to hurt them! These vial people continue and I'll have to move on. Y'all are promoting violence and saying it's ok, "because they were actually victims" Disgusting! Not caring enough to report a woman's DEATH is just sick! Going on with your life for years is Sick! And to expect apathy or empathy is Very SICK!! I wish I could say something to Sam and most of these people and it would be: SHAME on you! You had opportunity to do the right thing and you chose not to! You disgust me as much as your father and the tormentors y'all talk about! Two peas in a pod!

I have seen many episodes now and it baffles me how many people on this show still believe in God and rely on their religion. I left it in the hands of God. I prayed to God it would stop. I hoped God would protect him until he was with Christ". Also evil people using the naivety of their victims to use religion against them. Self proclaimed prophets leading cults. Parents praying on the fear of their children of going to hell if they don't obey. Now, as an atheist I'm aware that I'm biased, but did ever anything come good from religion? Watching this show it only makes me think not... Secondly, I'm astounded how many times guns play a roll in these tragedies. Apparantly everyone in America has one. Teenagers collecting them. Children using rifles to hunt. And they wonder why there are so many families dramas and mass shootings. I realise bad things happen in other countries too, but America is a sick country if you ask me. On top of that police and child protection services fail to act and protect the innocent. Turning a blind eye until it's too late. I am shocked.

The victims keep getting less sympathetic. Most of them are almost unbelievable in their life choices.

A few episodes into season 1 made me rethink the wisdom of not locking my doors and windows at my rural home. And I have a pit bull mix who weighs in at 68 lbs of muscle. This series will snap anyone out of a false sense of security. The recurring theme thru-out is family & friends who didn't see the impending doom headed their way. Some did, but were paralysed by fear. Either way you'll understand the answer to the question "Why didn't anyone do anything?" In quite a few episodes family spent years trying to get psychological help for their family member. Others repeatedly turn to law enforcement for help. Then there's the people who rationalized the evilness so that they didn't have to deal with it. Those are infuriating. This series is compelling, the 1st person interviews heart-breaking, the actor reenactments well done, the occasional update at the end is fascinating. I recommend binge-watching this... during the day and with locked doors.

I can't stop watching, but it's so frustrating to see the absolute blindness of these people who "didn't see this coming" when they should have been bowled over with red flags YEARS before the other person stated killing people. It's really hard to watch and not yell at the tv. An endless parade of oblivious enablers and naive doormats. It's really hard to feel for them when they just made (and MAKE) excuse after excuse for the killers' early behaviors that would have been obvious to any normal person that the criminal was trouble and would eventually kill someone. Production - wise, it's also very monotonous to listen to just one person talk for a whole hour. They really need some sort of narration or something to break up that monotony.

It's really hard to find sympathy for a lot of these people. Especially the Christian ones who say that leaving abusive situations was against god's will, divorce is breaking a covenant, etc. They learned that manipulation is ok. Could it be because they were taugh to obey their husbands, and that divorce is against his will? Wonder where they learned THAT from? And then after all is said and done, they've dug up all the bodies, or the burns and the scars have healed, or the wife and children have escaped, they go running back to the same institution that had them thinking they needed to tolerate this madness in the first place. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck. Aflac!

I Love your program. I feel you showing these stories are GREAT and educational to people watching it will help someone in trouble. Someone in desperate help and afraid!!!! Please don't stop airing this! You are helping by showing people in need, that there is something beyond being trapped and tortured. God bless you all. The people making this program are angels in disguise.👍😇 Don't ever stop, you are saving lives!!!! YOU ROCK!!! J. S.

I'm a musician, and I love being heard, but I have to say that the music on this show is too loud. This makes it distracting and puts it in competitiion for the listener's ear, rather than being a complement and tool to establish the atmosphere. I hope this can change, as we like the show and want to continue watching it.

This is my favorite true crime show and I'm really surprised it doesn't have a higher rating. There are tc shows on that have all that filler porn star acting scenes that are rated higher than this one and that is shocking to me. I think people must be rating those for their comedy affect for the atrocious acting. Anyways this show doesn't contain that fluff that makes, to me, some tc shows unbearable to watch. Each show is led by a victim of somebody they were close to/lived with. Spouses, siblings, parents, children of the monsters of the world. Some of them are just heartwrenching, especially the ones with kids who have experienced severe abuse at the hands of a parent.

Nothing beats the crime station. Some of the people on this show are terrible. I live in the inner city so it's spooky watching this at night.

I've watched a couple of episodes of this now and both of them I had to make a conscious effort not to turn it off as the music was so annoying, it is just there ALL the time, really loud relative to the people speaking, it drowns out the people talking, it draws too much attention to itself. We do not need constant, repetitive music telling us at what moments to feel sad or scared, let the stories speak for themselves. Less is more.

I found the second episode to be stretched very thin, the whole story could have been told in five minutes easily but they kept repeating the same things over and over, just to fill the allotted time.

Believing in God (or praying) does not at all help to stop a psychopath destroying your life if you are among the unlucky ones who happen to end up with such a person in your life either as being a child to one or a partner.

These men (and few women) are not possessed by demons or any other theological entities they are clear-cut psychopaths or in some cases sociopaths with some truly twisted fetishes they gets them off.

The series overall very well made with the actual victims telling their side of the story. Most often when it comes to these kind of perpetrators the focus is on them and then only and their messed up stuff while the victims gets forgotten.

This series brings the victims front and center end we can get their side of the events. What happened to them.

Many stories are insanely heart breaking.