October 23, 1983, Gertrude McCabe is found brutally murdered in her home. At first investigation, detectives pursue the case as an attempted robbery gone bad. A second glance at the crime scene shows that the scene was staged - this was not a robber gone bad, but a vicious murder of an elderly woman. Detectives comb the crime scene but lack the information to identify a suspect for the murder and the case grows cold. Uneasy about the solving of her aunt's death, Jane Alexander begins a mission to bring attention to her aunt's unsolved murder. Alexander contacts San Jose Police Detectives and urge them to look at the file and try to solve the case that has been eluding them for years, all the while, a suspect is making himself visible. That suspect, as an intensive investigation would later prove, was Alexander's then boyfriend Tom O'Donnell. The motive: money. This is something that devastates Jane, a woman, who had entrusted not only herself, but her money to O'Donnell. In 1992, San Jose Police Investigators garner enough evidence to bring charges of murder against O'Donnell. The devastated Jane tries to rebuild her life by attending advocate groups. In 1994, two years before O'Donnell will be tried and convicted for murdering Gertrude McCabe, Alexander begins her own victim's advocate group Citizens Against Homicide with partner Jan Miller.
