Mastermind of Murder (2021)
Mastermind of Murder
2021 / TV-14The best way to get away with murder is to have someone else do it for you, which is why the most cunning killers never lay a finger on their victims. In these cases love, loyalty, faith, and family become dangerous weapons, and the most vicious criminal isn't the one who pulled the trigger--it's the one who pulled their strings.
Seasons & Episode
When a young father is found shot in his bed, detectives quickly identify a suspect, but when the suspect is also found murdered, investigators uncover a lurid conspiracy involving betrayal and manipulation centered around an unlikely couple.
Police struggle to identify a mutilated torso found in the woods until the Navy comes forward with a missing sailor case; as the investigations join forces, a mastermind emerges who's obsessed with murder, power and committing the perfect crime.
The triple murder of a family tears apart a quiet town as investigators frantically search for a suspect on the run. Tracking down the gunman is only the beginning, though, as a conspiracy is revealed involving a mastermind and their unsuspecting prey.
When a successful businessman is executed outside his office, detectives suspect he was targeted; the ensuing investigation uncovers multiple murder plots and a mastermind willing to manipulate anyone, no matter how close.
A family is stunned after their patriarch is gunned down on his 200-acre ranch. Detectives are met with dead ends until a second victim is murdered on the ranch a year later. Soon a suspect is revealed who will stop at nothing to control the land.
After a family man is found discarded alongside a rural road, police uncover the brutal murder took place in his home while his children slept. Chilling suspicions and rumours about the family become reality as a deadly betrayal is revealed.
A father is bludgeoned to death and his wife is assaulted after an assailant breaks into their family home. As detectives sort through the evidence, an unlikely relationship emerges involving a suspect who has held a deadly obsession for years.
In December 1994, a house fire in small town Horn Lake, Mississippi claims the life of Lula Young, a beloved woman with terminal cancer; local law enforcement suspects foul play. Investigators’ hunt for the arsonist leads them to a suspect close to home whose greed knows no bounds, even murder.
After discovering a mother dead of an apparent suicide in 2017 in Corning, NY, police find evidence she was murdered. As detectives search for answers, they uncover a web of emotional manipulation that resulted in a deadly ultimatum and an unthinkable choice.
The best way to get away with murder is to have someone else do it for you, which is why the most cunning killers never lay a finger on their victims. In these cases love, loyalty, faith, and family become dangerous weapons, and the most vicious criminal isn't the one who pulled the trigger--it's the one who pulled their strings.