On a snowy Wisconsin morning, an 18-year-old mother is found beaten, stabbed and strangled to death with her 3 month old son as her only witness. Leads soon grow cold and the chase for a suspect leads detectives to a vicious killer who's close to home.

In Minneapolis, a woman's body is found in a burning car, then police discover an empty child's car seat in the back and launch a frantic search to find the missing child and bring a vicious killer to justice.