On a quiet night in 1967, Connie Hevener and Carolyn Hevener Perry are cut down in a vicious homicide while working at a local ice cream shop. The crime looks like a robbery gone wrong. However, four years later, the killer is still on the loose.

It's not the first time Donna Fowler runs away from home, but it's the last. Three years later and miles away, Stacy Belcher steps out for a bite, and never returns. Two families joined by the nightmare a monster on the loose for over two decades.

When 65-year-old Marilyn Kananen suddenly disappears, her three children fear their abusive father has returned home after 15 years to do her harm. Detectives cannot find Richard Sr., but discover evidence that turns Marilyn's case upside down.

When Marlene Major, mother of two, disappears in 1980, her family thinks she ran off to escape her abusive husband. Only one man knows where she is and truth is far darker than anyone can imagine.