A Body in the Basement (2023)

Season 1

These chilling stories of murder hit terrifyingly close to home -- each a real-life tale about the last thing anyone wants to find in their basement, a dead body. Every episode will make one think twice before ever stepping foot in the basement again.

Released July 19, 2023 Episode 42 min 14+

Genres: Crime, Documentary, Reality

Keywords: tmdb.homicide, tmdb.murder, tmdb.true-crime, tmdb.murder-investigation, tmdb.homicide-detective, tmdb.murder-suspect, tmdb.homicide-investigation, imdb.crime-documentary

Watch Providers: Investigation Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Spectrum On Demand, Discovery +, Discovery+ Amazon Channel + 4 more, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Philo, YouTube TV

Production Companies: Lion Television USA

Network: Investigation Discovery

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb 4828

7.0

/706/

Trakt

/25/

TMDb

/4/

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S1E1 - Killer in the New Neighborhood

In 1978, a shocking murder in broad daylight terrifies a small Illinois town; it goes unsolved for years, until an elite team of investigators uses cutting-edge technology to dig up new clues and lay a cunning trap to catch a killer.

July 19, 2023, midnight

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S1E2 - Ice Cold Killers

In Youngstown, Ohio, in 2017, an unsuspecting married couple discovers body parts in a mysterious locked freezer that someone has put in their basement, unlocking a harrowing mystery surrounding a missing woman and a tragic love triangle.

July 26, 2023, midnight

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S1E3 - Murder On Repeat

In June 2001, just outside Rockford, Illinois, a welfare check leads police to a woman brutally murdered in the basement of her once quiet suburban home; the hunt for her killer will lead detectives to a mystery that has been buried for over 14 years.

Aug. 2, 2023, midnight

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S1E4 - Chase and Lies

When 32-year-old Adam Chase goes missing, police comb the woods and fields of Ontario County, New York, but come up with nothing; it takes a months-long efforts of a private investigator to at last reveal the truth and Adam's terrifying fate.

Aug. 9, 2023, midnight

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S1E5 - Missing Means Murder

A man vanishes from a small town, leaving behind a trail of strange clues that stumps detectives and leads his neighbours to believe that a deadly imposter is living among them; when his body is found, the truth is more shocking than anyone imagined.

Aug. 16, 2023, midnight

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S1E6 - Deadly Invitation

A killer brutally murders well-known community activist and member of the gay community, Dennis Dolinger, in the basement of his Washington, DC, home.

Aug. 23, 2023, midnight

Investigation Discovery

42 min/ep

588 min

July 19, 2023

Oct. 7, 2025, midnight

Returning Series

TV-14 / 14+