The WORST episodes of Swamp Murders

Every episode of Swamp Murders ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Swamp Murders!

Across the Deep South, heat, humidity and darn good hiding places provide a perfect backdrop for dark, despicable deeds. Murky waters take secrets to the grave in SWAMP MURDERS when bogs, bayous and decrepit docks surrounded by a tangle of marshland and moss-covered trees set the scene for mucky murder. From the swampy bayou of Louisiana to the Great Lake o' the Cherokees in Oklahoma and even rivers and lakes in Georgia, Texas, and Florida, SWAMP MURDERS proves that even muddied waters eventually bring secrets to the surface.Hot, humid swamps make great hiding places - for bodies that is. In Investigation Discovery's newest series, moss-covered trees, dead-end trails, creaky docks and mangrove forests are the ominous backdrops for the murkiest of mysteries in SWAMP MURDERS.

Last Updated: 4/29/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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7.00
72 votes

#1 - Missouri River Murder

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2015

A Lakota teenager disappears from the town of Mobridge, S.D., causing racial tensions to erupt; when her body is found in the shallows of the Missouri River, detectives are confounded on both sides of the divide.

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7.04
51 votes

#2 - Mississippi Black Widow

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2015

On the morning of her 50th birthday, a woman is found face down in Suqualena Creek near Meridien, Miss.; detectives soon discover the victim's daughter and her best friend are both keeping secrets.

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7.19
43 votes

#3 - Rocky Waters

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/11/2016

After a baby is found abandoned along Ohio's Scioto River, police discover the child's mother has been murdered, and then they uncover secrets about someone in the young mother's past while investigating the case.

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A Run for the Money
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7.21
56 votes

#4 - A Run for the Money

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/25/2013

In Noel, Missouri, a bank is robbed of $71,000 and the President, Dan Short is nowhere to be found. Could Short have robbed his own bank? Five days later, a body is found in the swampy shallows of the Great Lake o'the Cherokees.

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7.24
50 votes

#5 - While She Lay Sleeping

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2014

The murder of Florida mother-of-four Andrea White, whose body was found floating in a pond dressed in nightwear. Immediately prior to her death in July 2005, she was in the process of arranging a divorce from her husband David, who was eventually found guilty of the crime

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7.25
40 votes

#6 - Murder of the Medic

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/2015

A U.S. Army medic enjoys a night out at a dive bar near Fort Bragg, N.C., but she never makes it home; police cannot figure out what happened to her even after dogs pick up her scent in a nearby swamp.

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7.26
38 votes

#7 - Murky Affairs

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/12/2014

The case of Kathy Goble, who disappeared in April 2010. West Virginia State Police recovered the 62-year-old saleswoman's decapitated and dismembered body from a co-worker's garden, precisely two years later. Charles Eugene March's son found the remains while during yard work

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7.28
53 votes

#8 - Drive Me Crazy

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/2/2013

In Texas, a wife files a missing person's report after her husband Bobby doesn't come home one evening.

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7.32
37 votes

#9 - Goth Girl, Gone

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/2015

A young woman leaves home to join a Goth community in Manchester, N.H., then something truly sinister happens when she disappears from a roadside bar.

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7.33
45 votes

#10 - Slings & Arrows

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2014

The case of evangelist Kenneth Richardson, whose body was found floating in the sea at a Florida beach in October 2001 with an arrow piercing his torso. During the investigation it transpired the victim was gay and routinely sought out homosexual liaisons at outdoor locations

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7.33
36 votes

#11 - The Devil Down In Georgia

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2015

A college student is eager to drive home to see her parents but never makes it there, then her body surfaces in the Oconee River, and detectives come to realize someone has been lying to them.

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7.36
44 votes

#12 - Dark Water

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/27/2016

After 53-year-old Barbara Hefner disappears from her Georgia residence, her body is found floating in nearby Folly Lake; during the investigation, police officers uncover a a recent inheritance and a secret affair.

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7.36
55 votes

#13 - Texas Killing Fields

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2014

The murder of 13-year-old Krystal Baker, whose body was found at the edge of a Texas river in 1996. The case went cold for 16 years until a DNA specimen retrieved from the victim's clothing was linked with that of an itinerant refinery welder

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7.38
32 votes

#14 - Quilbillies

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/5/2014

The death of 15-year-old Allison Tornensis, whose body was washed up on the shores of the Little Quilcene River in 1992. The case remained unsolved until July 2000, when Robert Froehlich confessed his guilt at an Oregan sheriff's office

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Multiple Personalities
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7.38
109 votes

#15 - Multiple Personalities

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/4/2013

When 19-year-old Kathy Bonney, model daughter, fails to return home, concerned father Tom Bonney turns to police. That same day, her body is pulled from Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp. Turns out, Kathy wasn’t as angelic as her family was led to believe.

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7.39
36 votes

#16 - Death in an Orange Grove

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2014

The death of 14-year-old Gina Marie, who was brutally raped and strangled before being discovered in a Florida orange grove in August 1971. Advances in DNA technology finally allowed her killer, Jerry Lee Fletcher, to be convicted 42 years later

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Chain Reaction
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7.43
76 votes

#17 - Chain Reaction

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/11/2013

When two women are discovered in the depths of Georgia's Flint River, detectives wonder if a serial killer is afoot. But when they connect the two victims, investigators follow their lead to the discovery of two more corpses, and a whole slew of betrayal.

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7.45
42 votes

#18 - Misty River

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/23/2016

A judge discovers the body of 22-year-old Misty Morse, bound and floating in the marshy waters of Florida's Indian River.

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7.45
53 votes

#19 - Out of the Swamp

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2015

Near Asheville, N.C., a young mother is stabbed four times in the chest and left for dead in the French Broad River, but she survives long enough to seek out help and to leave a cryptic clue for detectives.

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7.47
47 votes

#20 - Murder on the Hudson

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2015

In Albany, N.Y., a young woman disappears after storming out of the house to find her wayward boyfriend, then her body is found on the banks of the Hudson River.

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7.48
48 votes

#21 - Stranger in the Night

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/2017

After the body of 18-year-old Sharyn Kills Back is found in a storm drain, Arlington, Texas, detectives are left with few leads; then, a tip comes in 20 years later, and detectives band together to bring her killer to justice.

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7.48
56 votes

#22 - Lethal Attraction

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/2017

The body of 18-year-old Tina Hendricks is found floating in a Florida canal.

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7.49
37 votes

#23 - Love Squared

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2014

The kidnap and murder of Florida mother-of-two Heather Strong in February 2009. Detectives found her body a month later in a swampy overgrowth and the investigation that followed untangled a web of romance, obsession and betrayal that ultimately led to Strong's female killer

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7.50
44 votes

#24 - The Chameleon Killer

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/29/2014

The murder of 34-year-old bank clerk Beverly McGowan, whose headless torso was recovered from the shores of the Florida Everglades in 1990. Detectives embarked on a 12-year hunt for a ruthless female suspect before finally tracking down 'Chameleon Killer' Elaine Parent, who committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart as they waited outside her bedroom door for her to get dressed

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7.51
49 votes

#25 - The Wrong Turn

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/2014

The rape and murder of 21-year-old Angela Crowley, whose strangled body was retrieved from a Florida canal in May 1986. In October 2013, moments before his execution, convict William Happ confessed to the crime following years of denial

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