Monster in My Family

In an exclusive interview, Drew Peterson’s eldest son shares for the first time his memories of being raised by the man who he once admired above all others, his father. When Drew was arrested for the murder of his third wife and became a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth in 1999, son Stephen raised his four half siblings from two of his father’s former wives, believing his father was innocent and would soon be released. In the years that followed, Stephen had to come to terms with the fact that the man he idolized was a vicious killer. In a final step towards healing, Stephen reaches out to his former step-mother’s sister, to offer his condolences for his father’s heinous actions.

In the course of one year, 1984–1985, Richard Ramirez conducted a reign of terror over Los Angeles, killing 13 innocent people. His highly publicized home invasion crime spree led to the media dubbing him the “Night Stalker.” In this episode, ex sister-in-law Sandy, and niece Shelly, come to terms with the evil that existed in their family and meet Bill Cairns, who survived one of Richard’s attacks, but has never fully recovered.

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and massacred 49 people while wounding an additional 53, in the deadliest attack in American history. Despite pledging himself to the Islamic State, a life-long struggle with his own internal demons and sexual identity may have been the root cause of his murderous rage. Nobody was more familiar with those demons than his first wife, Sitora Yusufiy. In this emotional episode, shot only a few weeks after the massacre, Sitora meets Aryam Guerro, whose brother was killed by Mateen.

Richard Beasley was a conman and serial killer who posed as a preacher and in 2011, posted advertisements on Craigslist to entice men to work with him on his farm. Once on the property, Beasley hunted them down like wild animals, then killed and buried them. In this episode, his daughter Tonya, who lives with the guilt of teaching her father how to post ads on Craigslist, meets Nick Kern, whose father, Timothy was one of Beasley’s four victims.