In 1985, Seattle police captain Edward Shank became a local hero for hunting down and killing the Beacon Hill Butcher, a serial killer who had terrorized the Pacific Northwest by raping, strangling and dismembering young women. Thirty years later, Edward is eighty, moving into a retirement home, and has signed the family's rambling Victorian house over to his grandson Matt, the up-and-coming chef and restaurateur he helped raise.
Renovating the backyard to make the house his own, Matt picks the lock on a crate he's never seen before — and makes a discovery so gruesome it will haunt him forever. The man he's always known as a hero, the man being written up as a legend, may be the real Beacon Hill Butcher.
Matt's girlfriend Sam has her own secret obsession: she has never believed the official story of her mother's death, and has always suspected the connection runs back to the Butcher himself — a killer who, on her timeline, was still active years after Edward supposedly stopped him. As Sam's investigation and Matt's terrible discovery converge, both are forced to reckon with how far a family will go to protect a legacy built on a lie.