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.
After Charlie Kinkel goes missing in a remote Nevada mining town, his wife, Trayce, is shunned by locals; when a body is discovered, detectives break down the silence to reveal Kinkel'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.
In Mack's Creek, Mo., 42-year-old Trudy Darby is murdered, then two more local women go missing; silence reigns in town until a call out of the blue reveals that 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.