Unscripted true crimes series Meet Marry Murder, Phrogging: Hider in My House, and #TextMeWhenYouGetHome will debut this summer as part of Lifetime’s Life & Crime Mondays lineup. #TextMeWhenYouGetHome and the UK’s Sleeping with a Killer will debut on June 6, 2022. Phrogging: Hider in My House and Meet Marry Murder will premiere later this summer.
“True crime has proven to be addictive, and people cannot get enough,” stated Amy Winter, EVP and Head of Programming, Lifetime and LMN. “Our Ripped From the Headlines movies have really struck a chord with our audiences and we are excited to expand our crime offerings with these new unscripted series joining the network. Lifetime is the perfect home for these cautionary, fascinating, and stranger-than-fiction programs.”
Lifetime provided the following descriptions of each of the network’s new summer crime series.
#TEXTMEWHENYOUGETHOME
#TextMeWhenYouGetHome became a viral, worldwide movement following the 2021 death of Sarah Everard in the UK. The hashtag sparked global awareness, anger, and a conversation around the vulnerability and lack of safety women feel while in public alone. In this gripping, true-crime docuseries, each episode follows the case of an innocent woman who has been abducted, harmed, or even murdered by someone on what was an otherwise average day in her life.
These stories are told through emotional interviews; accompanied by stylistic recreations, actual texts, phone records, and other digital breadcrumbs that authorities used to solve the case. Unfolding as a whodunnit, all suspects are explored until the actual perpetrator is caught. In several episodes, survivors of these harrowing sagas will be revealed to tell their story, in their own words.
SLEEPING WITH A KILLER
Sleeping with a Killer examines real-life cases where jealousy pushes individuals to do the unthinkable. The docuseries focuses on ordinary people who have tragic endings at the hands of husbands, wives, former friends, and lovers. The 26-episode UK series (formerly known as Green Eyed Killers) is a dramatic look at the events that led up to these life-changing moments and the setbacks that often occur in the cases until final justice can be served.
PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE
This stranger-than-fiction true crime thriller explores the phenomenon of phrogging – people secretly living inside someone else’s home. From the man in the attic to the creeper in the crawl space, each episode features two first-hand accounts of survivors sharing the most skin-crawling, twisted, and truly terrifying stories imaginable. Along with interviews and key archive materials, cinematic recreations bring the clues and confrontations to life. This series proves that yes, there may actually be monsters under the bed.
MEET MARRY MURDER
What happens when the person you commit to spending the rest of your life with, winds up taking it instead? Meet Marry Murder reveals the gripping true stories of marriages gone terribly wrong, where an unsuspecting partner dies at the hands of their insidious spouse. Whether driven by rage, jealousy or greed, these spouses commit the most deplorable and common of crimes.
The series takes a deep dive into several cases and uncovers a world of scenarios that end in murder, from a husband who broadcasts his intent to kill his wife on YouTube to a woman driven to commit murder for a life insurance payout and a successful Louisiana attorney slain by the man she met after a car crash brought them together.
