A Body in the Basement is a true-crime series that explores real-life murder mysteries where the victim's body is discovered in a basement. Each episode delves into a different case, detailing the investigation that leads detectives to the chilling discovery and, ultimately, to the killer.
Philadelphia police officers find four adults locked in a filthy basement dungeon.
When friends find Brad McGarry shot to death in the basement of his Bellaire, Ohio home, evidence suggests a robbery; when detectives learn that Brad is an openly gay man working in the world of coal mining, a more complicated motive emerges.
Police unlock a missing Michigan man's cell phone to discover clues to his whereabouts and find him hanging in a basement dungeon.
On a hot summer night in Springfield, Massachusetts, a seemingly routine traffic stop turns into a nightmare when officers unknowingly apprehend a serial killer and discover a torture chamber and several murdered women in a quaint suburban home.
In 2021, in a Norman, Oklahoma basement, police unwrap the gruesome contents of a suspicious box.
When 31-year-old Ashley Young doesn't call her mum for days, her family and friends fear for the worst. And when a 911 call triggers a gruesome basement discovery, those fears come true.
In rural Pennsylvania, a young family discovers a mysterious skeleton buried in their basement. Archaeologists come in to identify the body, uncovering the truth about a decades-old missing persons case and a grisly family secret.
In 1998, new homeowners renovating their basement, discover a body; as police investigate, they learn it belongs to teenager Christopher Denoyer, who was reported missing by his family in the 80's.