Alan Cumming Hosts Oxygen’s True Crime Series ‘The Killer Among Us’

The TraitorsAlan Cumming hosts Oxygen’s The Killer Among Us, a new true crime series premiering on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 7pm ET/PT. The series spotlights murders that take place in tight-knit communities and includes an episode about the murder of a Sarasota gallery owner who’s found posed like a sculpture.

Cumming serves as a producer, with Zak Weisfeld, Libby Richman, and Brian DeCubelli executive producing.

“Throughout the season, Cumming takes viewers down the duplicitous road of devious, double-crossing, and deadly stories of those slain by a member of their own circle. The series is a real-life ‘whodunnit’ that delves straight into the heart of communities where the unthinkable has happened, and no one knows why — or who is responsible,” reads Oxygen’s synopsis. “From small rural towns to an academic research lab to high-end art organizations, The Killer Among Us takes viewers across the country to examine communities once thick as thieves uprooted by tragedy.”

The Killer Among Us Poster
Poster for ‘The Killer Among Us’ (Photo Credit: Oxygen)

Additional season one episodes focus on the following:

  • When a county treasurer is found murdered in her garage, Main Street becomes a crime scene where no one can trust their neighbor.  
  • A university for the deaf serves as a haven in Washington, DC. But when a freshman is brutally murdered, the student body is plunged into terror. 
  • When a bride-to-be enters a Yale University building to do research and vanishes, everyone within the ivy-clad walls becomes a possible suspect. 
  • A University of Kentucky football standout celebrates his 21st birthday when a gunshot cuts through the night and strikes him dead.  
  • At New York’s Metropolitan Opera, a violinist is murdered during intermission, leaving everyone in front of and behind the curtain under suspicion.