For nearly a decade, Investigation Discovery’s “Evil Lives Here” has forced us to look into the eyes of people who realized too late that they shared a home with a killer. Now, ID is narrowing its lens to the most heartbreaking bond of all: the one between a parent and a child with “Evil Lives Here: My Child the Killer.”
The Ultimate Betrayal
How do you reconcile the “sweet baby boy” you held in your arms with the monster headline on the nightly news? This new spinoff explores the devastating reality of parents who realized their children were capable of the unthinkable. Through raw, first-person interviews, these families share their journeys through guilt, denial, and—in the rarest cases—forgiveness.
Season 1 Highlights: The Stories No Parent Wants to Tell
| Episode | Date | The Story |
| Drive to Kill | March 31 | Dawn’s son Justyn saved her life as a baby, but as he grew, he traded that love for violent fantasies. |
| A Father’s Pain | April 7 | Ken Acremant had to make the ultimate choice: protect his son, Robert, or call the cops on a triple murderer. |
| I’m The Monster’s Mother | April 21 | Terrified of her son Timmy’s spiraling darkness, Jeannette contemplates a desperate act to save her family. |
| The Sins of Our Son | April 28 | Tim Jones Sr. watched his promising son unravel—until the day Tim Jr. murdered all five of his own children. |
| The Child I Thought I Knew | May 5 | Charity Lee overcame addiction to give her kids a better life, unaware of the “monster” living inside her 13-year-old. |
| Never Saw It Coming | May 12 | Robert Crimo Jr. dismissed his son’s dark behavior as teenage rebellion—until he helped him buy the gun used in a massacre. |
| My Son Is Coming to Kill Me | May 19 | After years of threats, Cary Buchanan’s worst nightmare comes true: his son has killed his mother, and Cary is next on the list. |
| One Child in Heaven, One in Jail | May 19 | Sonia Ramirez’s star-athlete son claimed he sold his soul to the devil. Soon, his darkness cost Sonia both of her children. |
Join the Investigation
This season promises to be one of the most emotionally heavy chapters in the “Evil Lives Here“ franchise. It’s a haunting look at how one person’s actions can destroy a community and a bloodline simultaneously. “Evil Lives Here: My Child the Killer” premieres Tuesday, March 31, at 9/8c on ID and will stream on Max.
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