19-year-old Greg Parsons is convicted of brutally murdering his mother with evidence of the audio tape of a song he'd written, "Kill your Parents". After three years in prison, Parsons is released when DNA exonerates him and it's proven that a friend of his had given police the tape and, in a double betrayal, also murdered his mother.

A trucker stopping at a roadside rest station discovers the fully clothed body of a dead East Indian woman in the woods. An autopsy reveals that she has been strangled, she has an unusually high level of sedatives in her bloodstream and, mysteriously, there are several pairs of burn marks on her skin.