A local detective investigates the murder of a businessman who returned to town after years of being away. The detective holds a conflict of interest in the case: his sister was swindled years ago by the victim.

A couple moves into an old, country farmhouse and is touched by a sentimental grave. One day, a man arrives after being released from a mental hospital, tells the couple it's the grave of his beloved pet, and asks to dig it up; however, police detective intervenes and arrests the man. It turns out the man is a serial killer and the grave holds a suitcase full of trophies from his former victims.

A man plots to murder his wife, but news of her pregnancy throws off his plan.

Three women are murdered. After they become the talk of the town, everyone speculates about what happened to them, and the police investigating the case receive one false piece of evidence after another another.

With a local man on trial for the murder of his family and a history of tragedy in the town, a group of neighborhood kids contemplate death.

A washed-up journalist's life and fortunes change when a professional hit man offers him a job.

A man's jealous wife kidnaps any woman she thinks he shows any interest in to torture and murder in their basement. Deciding to finally put an end to this and escape the absusive relationship, the man poisons his wife and frees her most recent victim.

A grocery store worker is shot and killed in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and in the aftermath of the shooting, the entire neighborhood works to protect the killer.

A thirty-year-old deputy in rural Ohio finds the body of a drug dealer hidden off the side of the road. He finds a way to frame his criminal father and brother for the crime—unable as he is to arrest them for the plethora of other crimes they have committed—all without leaving any trace of his involvement.

A brilliant young man with an obsession with the Sherlock Holmes series joins an investigation into a series of gruesome murders in New York—but his mysterious motives test the lead detective on the case.