episode description
Seasoned homicide detective Rod Demery and renowned forensic scientist Turi King investigate the case of a headless male body and dismembered limbs found in a remote cave near Dubois, Idaho. Without the victim’s face, and with fingerprints drawing a blank, Turi examines the body parts and their injuries. She then explores how genetic genealogy revealed his identity: Joseph Henry Loveless. Loveless was a bootlegger from a Mormon background, who lived more than a hundred years ago. But who murdered him? When Rod’s witnesses reveal that Loveless’s wife Agnes was also murdered, the team find themselves questioning widespread assumptions of Loveless’s guilt. Was he killed by vigilantes avenging Agnes’s death, or by fellow criminals, or because he may have been part of a love triangle? Plunged into a maze of false names, missing evidence, newspaper gossip and hearsay, can Rod and Turi identify Loveless’s murderer and bring justice to one of Idaho’s coldest cases?
