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Love may be blind and marriage, bliss - but divorce is murder.
When marriages fall apart, divorce can turn ugly - even deadly. From blushing brides turned cold-blooded killers to smitten grooms with shocking dark sides, the criminal psychology behind deadly divorces is examined. Guiding viewers through actual stories of love gone wrong are psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser and forensic psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, who analyze each couple to better understand how the marriage turned from flawed to fatal. .
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Checked Sep 3, 2026
Fatal Vows is available to stream on Discovery+, Discovery+ (Via Amazon Prime), HBO Max, HBO Max (Via Amazon Prime), Hulu, Philo, Spectrum On Demand, The Roku Channel, and YouTube TV in United States. You can also buy it from Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Use the direct links below to open the provider.
When marriages fall apart, divorce can turn ugly - even deadly. From blushing brides turned cold-blooded killers to smitten grooms with shocking dark sides, the criminal psychology behind deadly divorces is examined. Guiding viewers through actual stories of love gone wrong are psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser and forensic psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, who analyze each couple to better understand how the marriage turned from flawed to fatal. .
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Episode 1
Angela Neal comes to Anchorage, AK, to escape her checkered past. She falls in love and marries her counselor Mike Dixiano. But soon vices long buried will come back to haunt them... And demons from the past will drive one of them into the grave.
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Episode 2
Michael Dally and Sherri Guess are a perfect match. But when Michael takes up with an alluring colleague named Diana in a not-so-secret affair, the fear of divorce will lead the couple down a dark path of jealousy, abuse, conspiracy... and human sacrifice.
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Episode 3
High school sweethearts Michelle and Britt rekindle their romance after nearly 20 years apart. But this small-town Georgia family is a far cry from the Brady Bunch, bringing unseen baggage that unleashes a nightmare of infidelity, violence and murder.
Guest stars Giovanna Carrubba, Michele Malone, Heidi Lynne Weeks, Don W. Shepherd, Noémie Delcourt
Episode 4
Cristobal helps Jennifer through a tough sickness, and she's grateful enough to marry him. But after they tie the knot, Jennifer discovers Cristobal's manic need to psychologically abuse her. The need worsens when she leaves him for another man.
Guest stars Amanda Margelony, Alejandro Alvarez Cadilla, Brandon Lising, Lauryn Lising, Christopher de Courcy-Ireland, Michaela Di Cesare, Doug Price
Episode 5
Kelly and Punkie are teenagers in love. They marry almost as soon as the law will allow, and plan to raise children in rural Kansas. But things take a deadly turn when they befriend Tammy and Jerry, a sexually adventurous couple with a need for speed.
Guest stars Alison Louder, Johnny Sa, Richard Poirier, Romy Daniel, Amanda Margelony, Bill Rowat, Avi Bendahan
Episode 6
When Ed Postma, a Florida truck driver with a bad boy reputation, meets single mom Jackie Rosser, sparks fly. But when Ed straightens out to become a family man, new bad boys are waiting, and the spark dies, taking another casualty as collateral damage.
Guest stars Matt Keyes, Émilie Leclerc, Linda E. Smith, Pierre Leblanc, Yanik Ethier, Kyle Allatt
Episode 7
Amanda and Tonch Weldon seem like the quintessential Iowa farming couple. But behind closed doors, their cravings are quite kinky. Their secret swinging lifestyle works well for years... Until one day a deadly love triangle emerges.
Guest stars Michael Terlecki, Grace Gordon, Jasmine Gervais, Daniela Akerblom, Erica Deutschman, Sammy Panetta
Episode 8
Tammy Ellis likes bad boys and charismatic loner David Gatlin is right up her street. After a quickie marriage, David's dark history is revealed; an attempted divorce is the catalyst for a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
Guest stars Kayleigh Choiniere, Ian Geldart, Adam Driscoll, Jennifer Morehouse, Nikki Haggart, Steve Nash
Episode 9
After a rocky start, and a bad gamble on the stock market, Shari and Dwight Tobyne escape their small-town roots to start over. But financial fraud is soon revealed, turning this marriage into a web of deception - and ultimately a gruesome tragedy.
Guest stars Wyatt Bowen, Kathleen Glynn de Santiago, David L. McCallum, Kim Handysides, Trista Gladstone, Geoffrey Appelbaum, Tamara Richards
Episode 10
Janene and Troy Patton are madly in love. But with 4 kids, and unexplained black holes in the family bank accounts, they are on the brink of financial disaster. Then when Janene claims one of her psychiatric patients raped her, the fallout proves deadly.
Guest stars Paul Van Dyck, Stéfanie Buxton, Joan McBride, Loïc David, Heidi Cederburg, Raïssa Beaudoin, André Simoneau
Episode 11
Amanda Hornsby falls for Woody Smith, who is nothing like her first husband, who stole her money. But, Woody has baggage of his own. A toxic cocktail of jealously, infidelity and energy drinks plunges them both into an abyss of sex and violence.
Guest stars Lydia Zadel, Matt Langton, Éléonore Lamothe, Anik Matern, Alex Weiner, Mia Tilson
Episode 12
Sharon and Perry Nelson shake off their former spouses and fall for each other. But as the relationship falters, a new lover, lurking on the fringes of the family, threatens to introduce more than a dash of violence into an already volatile mix.
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Episode 13
Hattie Rennolds is struggling to provide for her daughter in Baton Rouge when she meets her dream man. Within a year they're married and Hattie is pregnant. But when they divorce, chaos enters an already volatile custody dispute, and someone ends up dead.
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Kathleen FeeNarrator (voice)
Dr. Brian RussellSelf - Series Forensic Psychologist
Stacy KaiserSelf - Series Psychotherapist
Teneisha CollinsAntoya
Kyle MeagherJason Rawley
Brad AbramenkoJohn Hillrich
Nir GuzinskiJacob
Julian BaileyEdgar Whitney
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