Payback (2022)
Whether it's a cheating ex, a double-crossing co-worker, or the best friend who stabbed you in the back, it's human instinct to want to get even. Though most people don't act on this impulse, there are those who are consumed with getting even. For them, what starts as a nagging bitterness evolves into obsession and results in murder. This true crime documentary series profiles those stories of revenge, told through gripping interviews with the family members, community members, and law enforcement who experienced the events firsthand.
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Episode 1 - Shot for Shot
Release Date: 2023-05-22When an accomplice to a 2006 murder is gunned down in a neighborhood bar 3 years later, police suspect the nephew of world-renowned boxer, Larry Holmes, who waited patiently to seize his opportunity for revenge.
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Episode 2 - Cycle of Violence
Release Date: 2023-05-29When an aspiring rapper is shot down in broad daylight after leaving a peace rally, Baltimore Police believe the murder is related to a shooting earlier that day, and their worst fears are realized as more revenge killings occur.
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Episode 3 - Romance Rage and Revenge
Release Date: 2023-06-05After a jealous ex confesses to committing deadly revenge on his romantic rival the victim's family worries he will get away with it because of an inadmissible confession and a circumstantial case.
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Episode 4 - Vicious Vengeance
Release Date: 2023-06-12After an anti-violence activist is gunned down in broad daylight, investigators uncover a twisted case of vengeance and mistaken identity thanks to wiretaps, cellular forensics, surveillance video and rumors on the streets.
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Episode 5 - In Broad Daylight
Release Date: 2023-06-19After a deadly shooting is caught on camera, detectives need to employ multiple investigative methods to convict a suspect who took justice into his own hands, killing the wrong man.
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Episode 6 - The Trouble in Toledo
Release Date: 2023-06-26When a man is shot in front of his children, his cousin seeks payback, sparking a months-long feud between two families; a back in forth battle of murder and arson wreaks havoc on the city of Toledo, Ohio.
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Episode 7 - Revenge Gone Wrong
Release Date: 2023-07-03When Ismail Lewis is shot and killed soon after an alleged domestic assault, authorities suspect the girlfriend; through their investigation they learn she did indeed seek payback, but it was not intended to be deadly.
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Episode 8 - Three's A Crowd
Release Date: 2023-07-10After a woman miraculously survives 17 gunshot wounds, Bellwood, Ill., police, aided by witness statements and video surveillance, uncover a triangle of romance, rage and revenge.
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Episode 9 - If I Can't Have You
Release Date: 2023-11-20In Florida, missing single mother Jennifer Johnson is found brutally murdered. All signs point to her on and off again boyfriend; whether her death is a random act of violence or a tragic tale of romantic revenge.
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Episode 10 - Caught on Camera
Release Date: 2023-11-27Detroit police are called to the site of an accident; they find father of six Jonte Brooks unresponsive at the wheel, but not from the crash, he's been shot. The investigation soon leads police to suspect his former girlfriend has taken deadly revenge.
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Episode 11 - Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 2023-12-04After a gunshot victim is identified as a recent suspect in an earlier killing, northern Virginia police must determine if the crimes are somehow connected and if the deaths are random acts of violence or a more likely act of revenge.
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Episode 12 - I'm Not Scared
Release Date: 2023-12-11Two months after Shavondes Martin is acquitted of a murder, he becomes a victim of gun violence in Waterloo, IA; while police are convinced the shooting was revenge, they and the rest of the community are shocked to learn his own cousin helped lure him to his death.
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Episode 13 - Eye for an Eye
Release Date: 2023-12-18After Chance Gathers, a young man with a criminal record, is shot and killed in broad daylight in Syracuse, NY, investigators have to figure out if the shooting was random or if his death may have been the work of a player from his troubled past intent on payback.
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Episode 14 - Dead Ends Part 1
Release Date: 2024-04-08When young expectant parents are found gunned down outside an apartment complex, Memphis police are shocked when the father-to-be's family members theorize the couple's deaths are the result of a dispute over bundles of hair.
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Episode 15 - Dead Ends Part 2
Release Date: 2024-04-15After young parents to be are gunned down in Memphis, police are shocked to learn their deaths resulted from a vengeful dispute over bundles of hair; while certain they have their killer, the road to justice proves trickier than first thought.