
Following the path from victim to verdict, told from the point of view of the people impacted by the case. Exploring how when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.

The night begins with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton; it ends with a nightmare when a man breaks in and opens fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband; when police track down the shooter, they can't believe who he said put him up to it.

After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body was discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.

Rosemarie Essa appears to die in a car crash; when police learn this was no more than a low-speed fender bender, they begin to suspect foul play by someone who knew what they were doing.