Episode 1 - Pop Smoke

A teenage girl living in Anchorage, Alaska, Cynthia’s learning disability caused her to function at a middle school level, and as such could easily be taken advantage of. In a stunning series of events, Cynthia was set up by her so-called friends and executed. The teens planned Hoffman's murder after meeting a man online (from Indiana) who said he would give them $9 million to kill someone and send him videos and photos as proof. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

An immigrant from the Philippines searching for the American Dream, Jepsy Amaga met Dane Kallungi online and they quickly got married in Colorado Springs in 2017. Dane became abusive and when they would argue, he would stay with his ex-wife for up to a week at a time. Jepsy began to date several soldiers from the nearby Army base. Then, Jepsy was found dead. Was it Dane, the soldiers, or was it a random attack? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Working as a nurse at a New Jersey hospital, Samantha Stewart of Jamaica, Queens, had a very busy schedule. Meeting people online was an efficient and successful platform to find someone to date. She met Danueal Drayton on Tinder and as misfortune would have it, Drayton was a serial killer in the making. Hours after Stewart’s death, Drayton allegedly raped and choked a woman he had met on Tinder in Sunset Park, then fled to Los Angeles, where he was accused of the forcible rape and premeditated attempted murder of a California woman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tech entrepreneur and CEO Fahim Saleh was found dismembered in his luxury Manhattan lower east side apartment. An international businessman, the search for his killer would span the globe. The regular practice of wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic made the NYPD’s job more difficult. Could the masked man on his elevator security camera be the murderer? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A NYC radio personality, George Weber was a very popular man-about-town. What many friends and co-workers didn’t know was that George led a secret life seeking men in online personal ads as “SmotherBoy” (He liked to be smothered). He met a 16-year-old knife fanatic on Craigslist and was found butchered in his Brooklyn brownstone the next day. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.