Name: The Promised Land
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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The people of Defiance, Iowa, find it strange when Scott Shanahan disappears, leaving his wife and kids, but Scott is always unpredictable and no one gives it much more thought.

Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall

A Year in Defiance

Iowa farmer Tom Lyon is excited when a nearby plot of land goes up for sale, but he isn't the only one. When Lyon's body is discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood leads through that very land.

The Promised Land

The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.

Fortunate Son

When teenager Dennis Lewis is killed fighting off home invaders, all police have to go on is a single handprint; when lab results reveal who the print belongs to, no one wants to believe it.

Mirror Image

When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.

The Puppetmaster

Rosemarie Essa appears to die in a car crash; when police learn this was no more than a low-speed fender bender, they begin to suspect foul play by someone who knew what they were doing.

Medical Mystery

What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, Fla., ends in blood-soaked violence, leaving a mother of three a quadriplegic; police find that this seemingly random act may not have been so random after all.

Deadly Letter

Lita McClinton thinks the man at her door is just delivering a dozen pink roses, but the delivery guy delivers death instead; the decades-long hunt for justice spans multiple continents before reaching a dramatic conclusion in an Atlanta courtroom.

Deadly Delivery

On the surface the Carters seemed like a happy family of Iowa farmers, but when they discover Shirley Carter shot to death in her kitchen, the family begins pointing fingers at each other.

Family Business

After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body gets discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.

Home Alone?

Small-town plumber John Cataneo fixes other people's homes for a living, until death came knocking on his front door; to find out who wanted him dead, police investigate the contents of Cataneo's own home, and get the leak they need.

And Murder Makes Three

When an unknown assailant guns down sheriff-elect Derwin Brown shortly after winning his election, investigators suspect a political assassination, only to instead uncover an extensive trail of corruption.

Who Shot The Sheriff?

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