14-year-old Christie Mullins is murdered in Clintonville, Ohio. The murder is unsolved for forty years until a young woman comes forward to identify her uncle as the killer. He is revealed to have a surprising connection to his victim.
Charlie Kinkel goes missing in a remote Nevada mining town. His wife Trayce investigates but is shunned by locals. When a body is discovered, detectives break down the silence to reveal Charlie's murder was a tragic case of misplaced suspicion.
Patricia Mills is killed in a house fire in Goliad, Texas. Her sister, suspicious the fire is deliberate, investigates. It takes 10 years to break the silence but the surprising culprit is finally trapped: the fire was arson, Patricia was murdered.
Donna Fontaine and her boyfriend Fred Palahniuk are found shot dead in a burning building in remote Kendrick, Idaho. A conspiracy of silence protects the killer until his lovers crack and confess the damning evidence needed to convict him.
42 year old Trudy Darby is murdered in Mack's Creek, MO. When two more local women go missing police fear a serial killer. Silence reigns over the town until a call out of the blue reveals the killers are uncomfortably close to home.
Sherry Leighty disappears from Altoona, Pa., leaving her three small children behind; after a 13-year search, her sister discovers the rumor Leighty skipped town with a new boyfriend is a lie and people close to her have been harboring a dark secret.