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In a sleepy Midwestern town, a sheriff’s deputy checks on a man the neighbors haven’t seen in days. He comes face-to-face with a grisly murder scene that will forever haunt his dreams. A serial killer is stalking the innocent.

FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiler Scarlett Bell knows her job will require her to enter the minds of murderers. But when she joins forces with fugitive Logan Wolf to track a deranged serial killer in Georgia, she learns the true meaning of fear. In the dead of night, a couple out for a moonlight walk discovers a woman’s severed head on a well-traveled bridge. She isn’t the first victim, and she won’t be the last. While Scarlett follows the evidence trail, she suspects Wolf is hiding a deadly truth.

On the night Karley leaves town to meet with her friends, she disappears. Her husband swears they have the perfect marriage, but Sheriff Thomas Shepherd isn't convinced. And the husband doesn't have an alibi for the night Karley vanished. Thomas joins forces with his girlfriend, private investigator Chelsey Byrd. But as they search for Karley, the case takes a dark turn. Someone is dumping bodies into a forest pond outside Wolf Lake. Is the murderer behind Karley's disappearance? Thomas and Chelsey race to stop an unhinged killer.

FBI agent Scarlett Bell feels abandoned. Her supervisor doesn’t trust her to work with a partner, and the agency watches every move she makes.

Dare to enter a killer’s mind. The heart-pounding serial killer thriller that will leave you breathless. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in an idyllic lake community. In over his head, the local sheriff calls upon the Behavior Analysis Unit’s best profiler, Scarlett Bell, to find the murderer. Is a serial killer stalking Coral Lake? Now Scarlett faces a killer unlike any she’s encountered. Bloodthirsty. Cunning. Insane. Another girl goes missing, and the special agent must stop the killer before time runs out.

As she looks out the window, a shadow moves across the glass at midnight. She's not alone. Someone wants to kill her.... In rural South Carolina, a madman stalks a sleepy town. The FBI sends serial killer profiler Scarlett Bell to catch the murderer, but the sheriff doesn't want the FBI in his county. Bell doesn't trust the deputy director of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, and she hasn't seen fugitive Logan Wolf in weeks. Can she depend on her old partner Neil Gardy, who is helping her without the deputy director's approval?

Someone is taking New York's children. The police assume they know who the predator is, but an overzealous detective and a lieutenant in over his head allow a serial killer to walk free. When the FBI sends profiler Scarlett Bell to catch the murderer, the deputy director demands she investigates the case alone. No partner to help solve the mystery. No one to watch her back.

He hides in darkness. Stalks the lost and vulnerable. And now a monster hurricane is barreling toward the beach. FBI profiler Scarlett Bell faces her deadliest case. She must stop a bloodthirsty killer before the hurricane destroys the island. The evidence trail is cloaked in darkness, and Scarlett must track the killer through the worst storm to hit the coast in decades.

When a distraught husband hires PI Chelsey Byrd to help him find his missing wife, Harmony, Chelsey realizes there's more to this case than meets the eye. Working with Sheriff Thomas Shepherd, Chelsey seeks the truth of what happened to Harmony four years ago. After a series of mysterious disappearances, Thomas and Chelsey fear the worst: A killer is stalking the shadows of Nightshade County and preying on the innocent. After the FBI arrives, the case garners national attention. But this only infuriates the killer. And now the madman sets his sights on Thomas and his friends.

A nine-year-old girl vanishes from Wolf Lake without a trace, and Agent Neil Gardy with the FBI believes the disappearance is related to a potential kidnapping case in Michigan.

A decorated police officer is found dead in a farmer's field, covered in what appear to be wasp stings. Except it's almost Thanksgiving in New York, and three inches of snow cover the ground. Days later, a prominent businessman with a fear of heights leaps from Harmon's tallest skyscraper. Are the deaths related?

After the police discover a ritualistic murder in South Carolina, Agent Scarlett Bell notices the killing is eerily similar to a case from seven years ago. Is the new murder linked to the assassination of a popular congresswoman? When the serial killer abducts another woman, Scarlett battles government officials who wish to silence her investigation and aligns herself with fugitive Logan Wolf.

A murderer stalks a lake community in Virginia. Three women missing. Vanished from the face of the earth. And local law enforcement can't stop the serial killer. The police call upon Special Agent Scarlett Bell, the FBI's talented profiler, to hunt the murderer. When a pattern emerges with the victims, Scarlett and her partner, Neil Gardy, close in on the killer. But someone is hunting Scarlett Bell. A deadly sniper who wants her dead. The problem is...nobody believes the gunman exists except her.

When Special Agent Scarlett Bell investigates a gruesome murder in a small farming village, she discovers a murderer like none she's previously encountered. Brilliant and insane, he taunts the FBI, who are powerless to stop him. A schoolteacher disappears, and now Scarlett must discover the link between the two women before the killer claims another victim. But the FBI won't give Scarlett the support she needs, and her own partner turns against her, forcing Scarlett to go rogue if she hopes to rescue the teacher.

The serial killer who murdered Scarlett’s childhood friend terrifies the country. Referring to himself as “God’s Hand”, the killer threatens one of Washington’s most powerful congresswomen, a woman who can destroy Scarlett’s career if she doesn’t solve the case. Now God’s Hand kidnaps the congresswoman’s daughter. It’s up to Scarlett Bell to rescue the girl before the madman claims another victim. But not everyone is who they seem, and a dark figure tracks Scarlett. Friend or foe? Solving the mystery is key to apprehending a vicious serial killer.

Twenty-three years ago, someone murdered Scarlett Bell's childhood friend. And now, the killer is back. When the police discover another child's body along a small-town Georgia creek, Scarlett notices the similarities between the latest killing and the murder 23 years ago. But Scarlett's boss won't allow her to rejoin the FBI until her doctors clear her for duty. Now another young girl goes missing. Alone and without her partner, Neil Gardy, Scarlett defies the FBI and stalks the killer on her own. Is Scarlett the killer's next victim?

The FBI sends BAU profiler Scarlett Bell to investigate a series of shocking murders in a tropical Florida paradise. But the local detective is a former BAU agent who doesn't like Scarlett Bell and wants her off the case. Good thing Scarlett doesn't play by the rules.

A murderer the tabloids call The Skinner stalks Great Plains farmland, a twisted killer the authorities can't capture. The bones of the victims are buried behind his house in a shallow mass grave. He won't stop killing until he's caught. When Agent Scarlett Bell arrives in Kansas to hunt fugitive Logan Wolf, she stumbles upon The Skinner. Why is Logan Wolf stalking the same village as The Skinner? Are the serial killers working together?

One killer. Three dead. Now you're in the cross-hairs. A college shooting sends the campus into a panic. A sniper hunts a small town. Now Special Agent Scarlett Bell must find the shooter before more innocent lives are lost. Is the sniper a member of a fringe white supremacist group? Scarlett gets off on the wrong foot with a local detective when she questions who the killer is. Scarlett's boss doesn't trust her methodologies, the detective undermines the investigation, and Scarlett's partner wants her out of harm's way. Good thing Scarlett never plays by the rules.

How far would you go to save a child in need? Jadyn is a promising inner-city student. But his community is terrorized by gangs and a series of grisly unsolved murders. When the boy stops coming to school. his teacher, Annelise, determines to find out why. Now she is trapped on the wrong side of town, and something evil is stalking her.