Every episode documents a town and its people through a murder that tore through it. The townspeople not only become our storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the puzzle that has forever changed their lives and how they understand their home.
Episode 1
In Aurora, Indiana, the townspeople are horrified when they learn that beloved mother and hairstylist Leigh Jennings is killed in her own home.
Episode 2
In Payette, Idaho, Elizabeth Baune is a dedicated teacher and a pillar of her community until she is stabbed to death in her own home; while townspeople suspect that her kindness may have been behind her death.
Episode 3
In the Columbus Ohio neighborhood of German Village, the body of Alyce Seff is found in a wishing well, and the townspeople are shocked to learn the elderly landlady had as many enemies as she did friends. With leads going cold, it will take law enforcement nine years to solve her case.
Episode 4
In Shawnee, Oklahoma, Marshall Dent goes missing on Christmas Eve, and the Native American community bands together; after weeks of searching, they find the Marshall in a shallow grave on sacred ground, and authorities scramble to find his killer.
Episode 5
A Christmas is ruined when hikers in New Mexico stumble across the shallow grave of Roxanne Houston; the murder rocks the community of Taos and tension builds between those with small town values and the outsider lifestyle on the Mesa.
