One June morning in 2013 in Dundalk, MD, cleaning lady Myra goes to the property office and sees a nightmare scene. The office has been ransacked and manager Melinda Schaefer is dead.

Gayle Isleib is brutally shot to death on April 30, 1996. Police investigate and identify her killer; they find love poems as well as evidence that the killer planned to kidnap Isleib and murder her husband.