(Some Spoilers) True story about a murder at the US Marine base at Quantico Virgiia that involved two officers in the US Marine Corps, a husband and wife.
Being drummed out of the Marines former Marine Captain Robert Russell, Nick Searcy, had developed an extreme dislike of his Marine Cops wife Capt. Darnell Russell, Jasmine Guy, for being the success that he isn't. Living on base as a military Dependant starts to get to Robert as he drinks himself into an ugly and violent rage that leads him to consistently brutalize Darnell to the point that she has to cover her arms from the black and blue bruises he gave her.
One Sunday afternoon after Darnell came home from church services she just disappeared never to be seen again and the talk around the base is that her husband Robert murdered her. The evidence, beside the violent beating that Robert gave Darnell, is the fact that she got a court statement for him to sign for a separation and that may well have set off the very unstable and dangerous Robert.
Getting on the case that at first was a missing person investigation is NIS investigator Joanne Jensen, Mitzi Kapture,who starts to put all the facts together and comes to the realization that Darnell may well have been murdered and that Robert is the one and only suspect. Robert does very little to help his case by being both arrogant and obnoxious when he's interviewed by the NIS and even goes as far as threatening Joanne about ending up the same way his wife Darnell did.
It turns out that Robert has a very strange superiority complex that by being a hard as nails marine, which at the time he wasn't, and as smart as a whip that no woman has the smarts and guts to be able to get him convicted of Darnell's murder. It later turns out that Robert made a major mistake when, after he was forced to resign from the Corps, he left in the possession of the NIS a computer disk that was a blueprint to his wife's murder!
Unusual murder case with no body or murder weapon to convict the defendant but the circumstantial evidence was more that enough to get Joanne and the Federal Attorny Kenneth Rowland, Mitchall Laurance, who prosecuted the case against Robert a murder conviction, the first of it's kind in a Federal Court, without a body a weapon or a confession by the accused.
