The 1991 savage rape and murder of 22-year-old Cindy Pavey, single mom of 2, rattles the tranquil town of Murphysboro, IL. Police investigate a potentially deadly love triangle, but it will take 17 years to harvest the leads necessary to bring her killer to justice.

The tight-knit community of eastside Buffalo, NY is stunned in 1994 when the body of beautician and single mom Cynthia Epps is found stuffed into a cabinet placed in a neighbor's backyard next to a vacant lot cut-through; she had been raped, stabbed and nearly decapitated. A clever killer eludes capture for 16 years, but new technology and dogged detective work put him behind bars.