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Murder Under the Friday Night Lights
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

—A look at the shocking and tragic cases of dangerous obsessions, brutal violence and even murder surrounding local high school football teams, tarnishing the sport these communities hold sacred.
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Season 49 of 9 Episodes

  • Approaching the circumstances in Bristol, Conn., that breed three former high school football teammates who become murderers.

  • Two football coaches, Paul Reagor and Jerry Bailey, vanish in a small Oklahoma town; their disappearance exposes racial tensions and reveals the high stakes surrounding high school football in the community.

  • Former cheerleader Valerie Zavala is invited to a party with high school football players and cheerleaders; she is found dead; investigators collect home video from the party to find clues to identify her killer.

  • Middle school cheer captain Tristyn Bailey is the future of Friday night lights at Creekside High; police investigating her disappearance have to navigate teenage rumors and gossip in their small Florida town to identify a monster in their midst.

  • A Texas community is forced to confront a troubling reality inside youth sports after a football coach is gunned down during a game in front of dozens of witnesses, including his own family; a former NFL player is at the center of the investigation.

  • In 1985, police find the body of a beloved coach in the barrens of southeast Texas, triggering a murder investigation laced with sex, jealousy and revenge; investigators close in on the killer, but an eleventh-hour twist tears the community apart.

  • The Hill family lives in a gated community near Dawson HS, where their daughter Arrijana is a popular athlete; when she is found murdered in her bedroom, detectives learn that Arrijana was hiding a secret that leads them to her killer.

  • When a high school football coach in St. Louis, Mo., is shot, the police race to identify a mystery woman they believe lured him to his death.

  • In St. Louis, Missouri, a killer lures a beloved Missouri high school football coach to his death.

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3 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    When Danger Is No Stranger
    Devil Came to Dance
    When Rules Don't Apply
  • When Danger Is No Stranger

    A 7-year-old cheerleader vanishes at a small town in Kentucky's biggest youth football game of the year; when she's found murdered, panic takes over and every parent fears that the worst kind of predator is among them.
    Upcoming
  • Devil Came to Dance

    When a popular teenage dancer suddenly disappears one day after practice, police have few leads until one of the dance team members reveals that a man stalked her just days before her best friend's disappearance.
    Upcoming
  • When Rules Don't Apply

    As coach Joe Paterno turns Penn State into a football powerhouse, a serial rapist from the team's ranks preys on multiple co-eds; when the justice system fails to put an end to his attacks, many wonder if Paterno's football machine protected him.
    Upcoming
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

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A look at the shocking and tragic cases of dangerous obsessions, brutal violence and even murder surrounding local high school football teams, tarnishing the sport these communities hold sacred.

Starring

Jalil Reddick, Robert Cunniff, Nathan Clarkson, Ronny Dunson, Eric Orman

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