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.
Seasons & Episode
When 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.
When 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.
After 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.
After 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.
After 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.
When 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.
When 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.
After 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.
In 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.
Detroit 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.
After 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.
