When a young woman vanishes from a New Mexico convenience store, two detectives discover tracks in the dirt that may lead to answers; after a second woman disappears, it's a race against time to stop a possible serial killer.

Twenty-eight-year-old U.S. Army veteran Joey Fulgham is shot dead in his bed in May 2003; police have a lot of ground to cover with a large number of suspects, including Joey's wife, her jealous boyfriend and even her protective teenage brother.