Show Notes
In a tiny Kentucky military town, two young women are slaughtered inside a “massage parlor” everyone knows is a brothel; then the cops crowd the scene as crucial evidence mysteriously disappears. As dirty officers and jealous lovers circle the case, the question becomes whether anyone in Oak Grove actually wants these murders solved or just their secrets kept.
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