Firefighters responding to an apartment fire make a grisly discovery: the charred body of a young woman; detectives investigating the case wonder if this is the work of a killer who murdered four people only a few days earlier.

In Detroit, Michigan, a cop's wife is killed in what looks like a botched robbery; as secrets simmer to the surface, police suspect a more personal motive; the pieces of the puzzle don't fit until a shocking confession blows the case wide open.