A gruesome discovery is made in one of the "refrigerator graveyards" in New Orleans in August 2005. Captain Patti O'Shay is assigned to the case. O'Shay's husband, also a police captain, is murdered by looters. In 2007, skeletal remains have been found which tie this case to the one from 2005. The police badge that had belonged to O'Shay's husband is found beside the victim's bones.