Plot

New York, NY, 1963. When two young women - just out of college, starting their first jobs in The Big City - wind up dead in their Upper East Side apartment, raped, mutilated, the victims of a terrible, heinous attack, the City is thrown into chaos. If these girls aren't safe, who is? The NYPD is under such pressure to solve the high-profile case it makes a tragic mis-step in the investigation of the case the newspapers dub "The Career Girls Murders."—XCON Productions LLC

New York, NY, 1963. When Patricia Tolles (23), an editorial assistant at Time-Life, returns to her apartment on E. 88th St., she finds the place ransacked and covered in blood. In a bedroom are the bodies of her roommates, Newsweek researcher Janice Wylie, (21), and schoolteacher Emily Hoffert, (23). Janice has been sexually assaulted and both have been stabbed over 60 times. The media dubs the case The Career Girls Murders. Fear claims the hearts of the thousands of young girls who have moved to New York City to join the workforce and gain their independence. The NYPD is under enormous pressure to solve the case. When police arrest a suspect who seems to fit the bill; they are so eager to get a conviction, they overlook a key detail. Four years pass before new evidence is uncovered and the REAL killer is caught.