A nursing student is drawn into the violent lifestyle of an ex-convict; the couple eluded police until a pregnant woman and her husband are found murdered.
On New Year's Day, the bodies of Kathryn, Bryan, Stella, and Ruby Harvey are found dead in the basement of their burning home in Richmond, Va.; police scramble to find their killers.
After a woman disappears from the parking lot of a department store in Ventura, Calif., detectives learn her husband has been leading a double life, involving drugs and an extramarital affair.
In Phoenix, two men break into a Buddhist temple and murder nine people; it seems like an open-and-shut case until investigators link the murder weapon to a pair of local teenagers.