It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: their child is murdered. But for the parents in these stories, that is only the beginning of the horror.

First, a woman finally walks out on the husband she says abused her for eight years. The court protective order she obtained should have protected her and her children. But not when law enforcement agencies made a fatal error.

Then, a woman’s child is murdered while she lay asleep. There is no doubt that her boyfriend was the killer. So why was she convicted of murder?

Also, a woman suffered for years with a violent husband. She knew he was capable of harming her. But she never dreamed he would harm their daughters, until a fateful phone call one night.

And, a pregnant woman, just weeks from giving birth, has a chance encounter with another pregnant woman living close by. Then one of them turns up missing. Only her husband lives to tell the story of loss, and a legacy of love.