July 18, 1979 was a typical Georgia day in the city of Middlefield until a mailman delivering a package discovered the bodies of a couple, Marisa and John Forrester, who have been brutally murdered in their home.Middlefield detectives investigate the crime for years to solve the identity of the perpetrator only to fail and have the case go cold.Thirty-four years later, the Major Crimes Unit of the Middlefield Police Department is asked to re-open the unsolved case at the request of the Forresters' two grown children who were present in the home at the time of the murders.A psychic is called in to assist the MCU who reveals some of the evidence originally collected was not used in the murders.Major Karen Hunter and her team are led through a tortuous tangle of possible suspects until the suspicious death of an old witness completely changes the focus and direction of the investigation.