A young television news producer is raped and murdered in her apartment. Police identify two suspects but both are cleared of any wrongdoing. The case stalls for more than a year.

Investigators then turn to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s DNA databank, which houses profiles of more than 8,000 convicted criminals, and is the first of its kind in the nation.

A comparison of the crime scene evidence with the DNA databank profiles results in Virginia’s first ‘cold hit’ in a homicide investigation and reveals the identity of the killer.