In the mid-1980s, a district attorney in Wichita Falls, Texas, has multiple homicides to solve. A father's grief provokes him to meet his daughter's killer, and over 100-miles away, a husband is accused of murdering his wife.

In 1981, a teen forms a search party to find his missing sister. In 1995, a mom searches for her son who disappears while playing near the river, and an officer prays when she recognizes the prime suspect in both cases.

In 2001, a son's visit home turns into a desperate search for his missing father. A detective uncovers a murder with a revelation about a group of children, and a mother struggles to believe her son could be a vicious criminal.

In 1990, a teenage boy vanishes. Nearly two decades later, there's still no trace of him, dead or alive. It's a mother's worst nightmare, but one detective refuses to stop looking until he's able to solve this mystery.

In 1986, a teen girl escapes her captors, then lives in fear they'll return to kill her. A boy learns his dad's fate and realizes his nightmares are memories, and a prison break leads a rookie cop on the hunt for two murderers.

In 1991, Brandi McClain falls in love with a handsome and famous skateboarder known as Gator. Though Gator claims to find God with the help of a preacher, no one knows that his dark side lurks dangerously close to the surface.

In 1997, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped in the middle of the night in Santa Claus, Georgia. A woman fears something terrible has happened at her friend's home, and a deputy on a welfare check discovers a house of horrors.

One morning in 1994, a high school student holds his class hostage at gunpoint. As students, teachers and police are faced with impending disaster, they have no idea that the worst of the day's carnage is yet to be discovered.

In 1992, when a woman's marriage takes a violent turn, her daughter seeks refuge at the nearby home of a caring neighbor. However, she has no idea that the place she considers a safe haven is not at all what it seems.

In 1996, Larry Schlegel visits his elderly mother at the hospital one last time before she succumbs to pneumonia. Years later, police give him a shock when they inform him that her death was not at all what it seemed.