
Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

When three high-schoolers are gunned down in their car, police launch an investigation into why they came to such a violent end; ten years later, that investigation reaches a dramatic conclusion in an Albuquerque courtroom.

Girly Chew had been worried about her safety; the investigation into her disappearance would take police into a world of aliens and reptiles, cancer cures and cannibalism, a world inhabited by a charismatic conman and his extra-terrestrial soul-mate.

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.