Schober, Jeff

Three friends decide to hike across the Eastern edge of frozen Lake Erie on a sunny afternoon. Tony Davenport and Victoria Maxwell have begun dating secretly, while Amy Black, mourning the death of her father, believes that a relationship with Tony will end her depression. The couple's admission of love and Amy's complex feelings are cut short when ice collapses beneath them.

Provides an account of the investigation into a series of rapes and murders that occurred in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, over the course of twenty-five years in the 1980s and 1990s, discussing the incarceration and eventual release of an innocent man convicted of two of the crimes, and the apprehension of the real killer.