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True crime podcaster Alex McPherson has a new case. When Alex and her colleague Drew Godfrey investigate a self-help retreat where people past and present have died.

When a man's body is discovered in a pond, his wife finds herself in a complex trial, which causes podcaster Alex and the Chronicle team to seek answers surrounding this unusual case.

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The latest edition of Alex McPherson's true crime podcast finds her investigating a three-year-old murder for which the body has only recently been discovered. In reviewing the case for her podcast, Alex discovers the shocking truth about the killer, and helps to exonerate two men wrongly accused of the crime.

Alex McPherson (Sweeney) returns to the small town in Pennsylvania where she spent her summers as a girl to record the next episode of her true crime podcast, about the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years prior. However, after teaming up with the local newspaper editor (Ayres), who reluctantly agrees to help her retrace the girl's last steps, Alex not only uncovers the shocking truth behind the girl's disappearance, but also a decades-old murder and its cover-up.