Death Before I Do / Hollywood Homicide
In August 1993, fire-fighters respond to a call of a condo building engulfed in flames in Port Hueneme, California. After clearing the blaze, fire-fighter Bob Dunivan discovers the body of 44-year-old Cynthia Burger.

Seven years later in August of 2000, Detective Dennis Fitzgerald is now working as a DA Investigator in Ventura County. During his spare time, he tracks some of the unsolved cases. The Cynthia Burger case is one of the three unsolved cases he hopes to solve. Fitzgerald's only evidence in the Burger case is a sample of semen collected from the victim's body. Fitzgerald has a DNA profile developed from the semen and enters it into a national DNA database. The comparison turns up no matches.

The case remains stalled until Ventura Police Detective Matt Harrville catches an anonymous call.

1988, West Hollywood California. Myra Davis, a local actress and stand-in for Janet Leigh in Psycho is found brutally raped and murdered. Det. Gary Fullerton with the West Hollywood division of the LAPD works the case and is supervised by Richard DeAnda. Initial investigation leads detectives to suspect Davis' grandson of the murder, despite pleas from Davis' granddaughter Sherry Davis to inquire with the guy next door. The problem is, she doesn't specify which guy and Fullerton's efforts with the neighbours lead nowhere. In short time, the case goes cold.