Thurman Martin, 65 years old, rules his family with an iron fist, brutally beating anyone who stands up to his emotional and physical abuse. Then, one day, he vanishes, and his family tell police that he left with just a few changes of clothing.

Vicki Monroe finds her husband, Gerald Monroe, shot dead in an apparent robbery at the Louisville bar they owned, but a car leads police back to the couple's son, who points the finger at his mother for the murder.

When Sherri Malarik is found dead in a Winn-Dixie parking lot, police suspect her husband Greg is involved. But it takes twenty years and the confession of his accomplice and former lover Jennifer Spohn to finally charge him with murder.