Airing at 8 PM Tuesday night, Investigation Discovery Network’s “Devil In Suburbia” will showcase the difficult intricacies surrounding the deaths of Lindsey, Joy and Emily Champion — Cadiz natives who were brutally murdered October 26, 2014, in their Trigg County farmhouse.
Titled “No Son Of Mine,” the fourth episode of this season paints a grim, harrowing picture: “In rural Kentucky, police receive a distressing call about the brutal killing of a family in their home. Authorities learn the victim’s son is the sole survivor of the attack by a disgruntled ex-handyman, but his recollection of the murder doesn’t add up.”
That son, Ryan Champion, is currently housed in West Liberty’s Eastern Kentucky Corrections Complex, serving a life sentence without parole. He and a Hopkinsville accomplice, Ann Plotkin, took plea deals in December 2016, in connection to the shooting deaths of the Champions and 22-year-old Vito Riservato.
The episode will also re-air at 11 PM Tuesday.
Plotkin died February 8, 2019 — just one day after a parole board denied her request for early medical release due to terminal illness. She had pled guilty to three counts of complicity — assisting in the planning stages of all four murders. Prior to her death, she had already served four of her 22-year sentence at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange.
This is the first season for “Devil In Suburbia,” which is described as a show for “the stories of ordinary folks who confronted the evil that was always right in front of them, and the shocking crimes that occurred due to what was missed before tragedy changed everything.”
Investigation Discovery, known as ID since 2008, is a TV network owned by Warner Brothers. It’s particularly dedicated to true crime documentaries, and as of February 2015, more than 80 million American households had access to the channel — which plays original productions and re-titled, off-network reruns of ABC’s 20/20, CBS’ 48 Hours and NBC’s Dateline.
This specific, chilling Champion chapter has already been the focus of a 2019 one-hour documentary for Oxygen’s “Killer Motive” series.
