Plot Synopsis

SLEEPING WITH DEATH is a one-hour docuseries that examines the aftermath of murders that happen when the victims and survivors are at their most vulnerable -- asleep in their beds. The series investigates stories of the people who woke up to the nightmare of a friend or family member having been murdered while they slept in the same house, sometimes merely feet away. Those left alive grieve and struggle to come to terms with being unaware that acts of brutality took place under the same roof. In addition, they must also confront the fact that they may be named as possible suspects. In the series opener, "Left for Dead," Johnia Berry is stabbed more than 22 times in her Knoxville, TN, bedroom while her male roommate escapes with his life after he is stabbed also. Her roommate runs to a nearby convenience store where he frantically speaks with police, afraid his roommate has died and that his injuries are serious enough that he may die himself. As law enforcement begins to investigate, they can't fathom how this young man evaded Johnia's fate, and wonder if he may be involved. SLEEPING WITH DEATH features several additional cases such as a successful businesswoman is murdered as her boyfriend sleeps beside her; a teenager who discovers her father, a popular high school drama teacher, stabbed to death in his bedroom while she sleeps across the hall; and a man killed by a single gunshot as his wife sleeps nearby.

On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT, Oxygen premiered a sneak peek of the series, which officially debuted one week later -- on Sunday November 6 -- with back-to-back new episodes from 7-9pm ET/PT on Oxygen.