In October 2011, nineteen-year-old Amber Kirwan disappeared after spending the evening at a downtown pool hall. She had walked a few minutes down the road to meet her boyfriend, but never made it. New Glasgow, Nova Scotia were terrified, and the community stepped up to search for Kirwan throughout Pictou County, plastering her missing poster everywhere they could.

After an exhaustive search, her remains were discovered a few weeks later on an old logging road a half hour from where she'd last been seen. She was naked, lying facedown in a shallow, muddy grave, clothing discarded in the bushes. She had been bound, stabbed multiple times, and had bled to death. The trial of her murderer, Christopher Falconer, became the most high profile trial the county had ever seen.