The Porch Light

Janett Chirstman is a young, talented piano player who is weeks away from an audition for the towns band. Three days shy of her fourteenth birthday Janett babysits for a family friend. As Janett arrives at the house of Ed and Anne Romack and violent storm is brewing. Ed and Anne Romack head out to the local dance hall for an evening of fun with Robert and Mary Mueller. At one point during the night Robert excuses himself from the dance hall to make a call and is gone for a length of time. Janett has put little Gregory to sleep and is reading a book on the sofa when the window smashes frightening her, thinking it was the storm she casually starts to clean up the glass until she hears the front door unlock and Robert Mueller is now standing in the Romack house. Robert returns to the dance hall covered in mud and disorientated. Alarmed by his odd behavior and the worsening of the storm Ed and Anne head home, to find Janett beaten to death. Boone County Police show up on the scene and minutes later Cole County Police show up claiming the Romack house is in there county and the case has similarities to case years prior. A turf war begins.