In North Carolina, Stephanie Powell-Anderson's convenience store shift ends in bloodshed, as part of a larger pattern of violence plaguing the area; with the assailant growing bolder by the day, the heat is on to make an arrest before he kills again.

In September 2014, an Iowa college town panics after police find Tong Shao, a missing student from China, murdered; when security camera footage points to a planned execution, hunting down the young woman's killer becomes an international mystery.