Arizona State University is known more for its festive atmosphere than its academics. But for Fiona Yu, academics were everything. On the afternoon of August 4, 1997, she was brutally raped and murdered. Four years later, criminal profiler John Yarbrough arrives in Tempe to create the first psychological profile of the person who perpetrated this crime.
November 1973, outside of Rochester, New York. The lifeless body of 11-year-old Michelle Maenza disappears in a body bag. Countless leads are searched, 800 suspects are questioned, but never a single arrest is made. 30 years later, criminal profiler Roy Hazelwood, a serial sexual homicide expert, arrives in Rochester to try to revive this cold case.
During the summer of 1993, the pleasant coastal community of Port Hueneme, California, was rocked by three horrific murders. Eight years later, criminal profiler Larry McCann arrives from Virginia, assigned to help local law enforcement try to close the books on the most savage series of murders this small town has ever seen.