Signs of a Psychopath Season 8: Episode Guide & Ratings

On a quiet winter night, a mother finds her 22-year-old son horrifically dismembered in her basement. The lone suspect is the victim's ex-girlfriend, who is at her home in an emotionless state with blood on her hands.

Weeks after an 18-year-old man's friend reports him missing, his clothing turns up burned in a trash can behind a suburban home. When witnesses lead investigators to a young man with a history of violence, they soon learn he had not worked alone.

A 19-year-old woman vanishes, and the suspect is a former high school classmate with whom she had been communicating days earlier. The family is weary, for the suspect has a notorious past filled with sexual deviancy and homicidal urges toward women.

A man finds his family slaughtered in their West Virginia home. The oldest son, 16-year-old Gavin Smith, is missing, he turns up hiding at his girlfriend's.

After his wife vanishes from Jackson, Missouri., a psychopath plays cat and mouse with detectives.

Hikers in Portland discover the badly decomposed body of a raped and strangled young girl. A month later, another woman turns up brutally murdered in same fashion. The prime suspect is a homeless drifter harboring dark sexual fantasies.

A 33-year-old oil rig worker calls 911 to report his girlfriend missing. He seems to be helping in the time-critical hunt to find her. A failed polygraph test leads detectives to suspect this seemingly caring boyfriend is a psychopath.

Six months pregnant Martine Bernard's family reports her missing, days later, her father vanishes as well. When officers interview Martine's husband, Cassandritz Blanc, they find a calculating psychopath willing to do anything to cover his tracks.

When a 64-year-old grandmother does not return home from her morning walk, local police uncover that the man responsible for her disappearance is not only a pathological liar but a sexually deviant psychopath carrying out a twisted fantasy.

Every parent's worst nightmare is the possibility that their child has the same evil traits as the most heinous murderers.