In 1994, a human skull retrieved from an Ohio pond reveals a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed multiple times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers, in an attempt to keep the victim's identity a secret. A mitochondrial DNA match between the skull and Tina Mott's 18-month-old son was used to positively identify the remains as 21-year-old Tina Mott, who was reported missing two months earlier. Investigators focus on Tina's live-in boyfriend Timothy Bradford and faced with the forensic evidence against him, Bradford confessed to killing and dismembering Mott.