BEHIND THE EPISODES

In celebration of the 100th episode of The Dark Side of Love, launched in February of 2021, here's a look back at the ten episodes that have personally been the most memorable and have left a lasting impact on me over the years.

In post World War I London, Edith Thompson refuses to let her stodgy husband, Percy, keep her from living her best life as a girl about town. However, when Edith is reacquainted with her brother’s old school chum, eighteen year old Freddie Bywaters, she is consumed by a whole new passion - one that would lead to murder.

Amanda Canales finds herself charmed by the persistent, yet level-headed, Kevin Lewis when she meets him in 2007. Amanda’s family welcomes Kevin with open arms and when the couple marries two years later, everyone believes this is a love meant to last. Well, almost everyone, because, Amanda’s sister, Alisha, has serious doubts about her brother-in-law and when Kevin’s true nature is revealed, the revelation will lead to murder.

On Valentine’s Day, just three months into their relationship, Oscar Pistorius brutally kills his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Everyone knows Oscar did it. But everyone is stunned as to why he says he did.

TV news anchorwoman, Diane Newton King, is on top of the world. Until she becomes the fixation of an obsessed fan. When she's gunned down one February night, everyone thinks it's her stalker. They're wrong.

Everyone knows Jim Sullivan had his socialite wife, Lita Sullivan, murdered. Authorities just have to catch him.

On a gray and drizzly January morning in 1987, the doorbell rings at the Atlanta home of socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan. She opens the door to what she thought was a delivery man bearing a box of beautiful long-stemmed roses. Instead, he came, bearing bullets. 

The city of Baltimore was stunned by the brutal murder of Jacquelyn Smith. But something about the story doesn't add up.

In the midst of a bitter custody battle with her ex, Grant Hayes, Laura Ackerson disappears...

Laura Ackerson thinks she’s met her soulmate in the form of singer/songwriter, Grant Hayes. However, Grant is far from Prince Charming.

When Tommy, strikes up a flirtation in an Internet chatroom with a girl calling herself TalHotBlond, he thinks he's hit the jackpot...

British native Neil Entwistle thought he hit the jackpot when he met bright, bubbly American exchange student Rachel Souza during his junior year of college. The couple falls deeply in love and marry, completing their circle of happiness less than two years later when they welcome baby girl Lilian Rose. Except Rachel has no idea that her loving husband is actually living a sordid secret life. And she’ll find out too late just how deadly those secrets are.

High school sweethearts, Lisa Caldwell and Seth Techel, finally marry after seven years of dating in a beautiful old-fashioned church ceremony. Within months of getting married, they learn they’re expecting a baby girl. But before Seth and Lisa can celebrate their one year anniversary or the birth of their baby, one of them will be dead.

Jamaican immigrants Andre and Andreen McDonald seemed like the ultimate power couple. He was a US Air Force Reserve major while she built a successful home healthcare business from the ground up, making them multimillionaires in the process. They seem deeply dedicated to each other. However, when Andreen goes missing, all eyes turn to her loving and devoted husband.

Lisa Toney has a successful career in corporate America and a stable marriage to her devoted husband, Marcus. However, a nice quiet suburban life isn’t enough for the restless Lisa and she soon begins an affair with a charismatic younger man who showers her with a taste of the good life. And it’s not long before this hot and heavy affair ends in a brutal murder.

Steve “Air” McNair was a popular and beloved retired quarterback with the Tennessee Titans who was known for his dedication to community and for being a family man. But Steve had a secret, namely, his nineteen-year-old girlfriend, Jenni Kazemi. And while Steve was promising Jenni they’d be together forever, she decided to make sure they would be.

On the surface, Brad and Tami Reay and their young daughter, Haylee, seemed to be a happy little family. However, the move to a new city coupled with Brad’s workaholic tendencies, drive Tami into the arms of another man. And when Tami tells her husband she wants a divorce, the revelation sparks a diabolical and deadly chain of events.

Rae Carruth is a handsome and wealthy NFL star who loves to surround himself with the company of women. When beautiful and ambitious Cherica Adams catches his eye, the pair begin a casual physical relationship. However, this laid-back liaison comes to a brutal end on a dark, lonely road in a hail of gunfire.

Bubbly and beautiful Shari Barbour was the girl every guy wanted, but through patience, determination and dedication, Deon Cartmell was the one to win her heart. At first, their sweet love story seemed like a fairy tale come true. Until a bullet ripped their marriage apart.

To their church and the community, Pastor Tracy Burleson and his wife, Paulette, presented themselves as stable, upstanding, God-fearing people. Behind closed doors, their volatile marriage was marred by infidelity, domestic abuse and predatory behavior. And when one of them decides it’s time to put the marriage out of its misery, the other will get a bullet.