Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the murder of Lois Ryder who is found in a pile of garbage just outside a nightclub. Her husband Jonathan Ryder says he was out of town over the weekend and had not seen his wife. The medical examiner determines that she died due to a blunt force trauma, the same type of injury in other similar cases the police have been investigating. He also finds semen but no evidence of rape so the police assume she had a boyfriend. They track her boyfriend, Dr. Joel Friedman, who admits to the affair but points the finger at her husband. The identification of a piece of jewelry, a family heirloom, is the key to getting a conviction.
—garykmcd