Synopsis: These bone-chilling true-crime stories of murder explore crimes in which the victims' dead bodies are found in the basement of a home. The location might be their own home, or the killer's home, or an abandoned building. (Courtesy Investigation Discovery, 2025)
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Season One Episode Guide (Investigation Discovery)
1-01 Killer In The New Neighborhood--07/19/2023
In 1978, a shocking murder in broad daylight terrifies a small Illinois town. The brutal crime goes unsolved for years, until an elite team of law enforcement investigators uses cutting-edge technology to dig up new clues and lay a cunning trap to catch a killer.
1-02 Ice Cold Killers--07/27/2023
Youngstown, Ohio, 2017; Shannon Graves, age 28, went missing under mysterious circumstances. Months later, her partially dissected remains were discovered stuffed into a chest freezer in the basement of a rental home. Who put her there, and why did they store the freezer in someone else's basement? Why was she murdered so cruelly and discarded so heinously? In the end, the three culprits responsible for her disappearance and murder were Shannon's former boyfriend, Arturo Novoa, Arturo's current girlfriend, Katrina Layton, and Arturo's friend, Andrew Herrmann. Novoa, Layton and Herrmann were all arrested and convicted of various crimes regarding the death of Shannon Graves. They were all sentenced to varying amounts of time in prison.
1-03 Murder On Repeat--08/02/2023
In 2001, Barbara Purcell was found murdered in her basement. Her husband Willard was convicted in 2003 and died in prison in 2015. The case revealed links to his first wife Crystal's 1987 basement stair death in Rockford.
1-04 Chase And Lies--08/09/2023
When 32-year-old Adam Chase goes missing, police comb the woods and fields of Ontario County, New York, but come up with nothing. Adam's disappearance takes a months-long efforts of a private investigator to at last reveal the truth and Adam's terrifying fate.
1-05 Missing Means Murder--08/16/2023
A man vanishes from a small town, leaving behind a trail of strange clues that stumps law enforcement detectives and leads the missing man's neighbors to believe that a deadly imposter is living among them. When the man's body is found, the truth is more shocking than anyone imagined.
1-06 Deadly Invitation--08/23/2023
In 1999, a killer brutally murders an activist and member of the gay community Dennis Dolinger in the basement of his Washington, DC, home. With DNA technology in its infancy, the race is on to find the culprit before they strike again.
Season Two Episode Guide (Investigation Discovery)
2-01 Tacony Dungeon--08/12/2023
Philadelphia police officers find four adults locked in a filthy basement dungeon. The investigation leads detectives across four states. resulting in multiple felony arrests. However, all evidence points to a single ringleader behind a deadly scheme.
