Enrico Forti's scheme to swindle the owner of a luxury resort in Ibiza is discovered by the owner's son, Anthony "Dale" Pike. When Pike is found murdered shortly thereafter, Forti becomes the prime suspect.
Ruthann Aron, a feisty, self-made millionaire, makes an unsuccessful bid for Maryland's US Senate seat in 1994. She then orders a hit on a rival attorney and her husband in return for $20,000 cash. When investigators are tipped off by a local garbage hauler, Ruthann is arrested while playing in a charity golf tournament. Why would a once promising politician risk everything for a murder-for-hire scheme?
The sensational Michael Peterson case which has spawned a controversial documentary 'The Staircase" a.k.a. "Death on the Staircase", and TV movie "The Staircase Murder" is recounted. Michael's wife, Kathleen, was a popular, prominent and wealthy businesswoman. Is novelist Michael Peterson guilty of murdering his wife or was it an unfortunate accidental slip and fall off the staircase and is he also guilty of the murdering his best friend's wife who died in a staircase accident 18 years ago? After all, she died on a staircase. Is Michael hiding a dark secret? The pieces come together in Michael Peterson's million dollar defense.
