Synopsis

Nine-year-old Polly Carmody was murdered and discovered in a refuse bin. Police swiftly apprehended a suspect, but Lieutenant Alex Markasian felt the man didn’t align with the profile of someone who would harm a child. His attention instead focused on the unsettling fact that Polly’s caregiver was her stepfather, having lived in the house for only a few months. When the arrested suspect's blood type proved inconsistent with traces found on the victim’s clothing, suspicion increasingly fell upon