Plot Synopsis

Using re-enactments and first-person interviews, WHERE MURDER LIES is a true-crime docuseries that gradually exposes murder investigations one truth after another, revealing the sinister underbelly beneath seemingly placid communities. Everyone is hiding something. It may be a harmless secret, or it might be something far more serious: a terrible betrayal of trust or a shocking indiscretion. Some of these come out over time, while others stay hidden forever. But sometimes, an event is so horrific, so cataclysmic, that everyone's truths are laid bare. On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, discovery+ released eight 40-minute episodes of WHERE MURDER LIES' first season. In the series opener, "Secrets Laid Bare," 19-year-old Francine Stepp discovers her parents Mark and Dee murdered in their home in Stillwater, OK. The Stepps seem like the perfect family until detectives uncover a scandalous secret that lead to their murders.

WHERE MURDER LIES made its linear television debut on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 9pm ET/PT on Investigation Discovery.