Fourteen-year-old Christie Mullins is murdered in Clintonville, Ohio; the murder goes unsolved for 40 years until a young woman comes forward to identify her uncle as the killer.

After Charlie Kinkel goes missing in a Nevada mining town, his wife, Trayce, tries to investigate, but is shunned by locals and after a body is discovered, detectives discover Kinkel's murder was a tragic case of misplaced suspicion.

In Goliad, Texas, Patricia Mills is killed in a house fire that her sister deems to be suspicious; it will take 10 years to break the silence surrounding this case, but Mills' killer is eventually brought to justice.