When Millers Kill, NY, police chief Russ Van Alstyne tells his wife that he is in love with Clare Fergusson, the Episcopal priest for St. Albans Church, she throws him out. A few weeks later, her mutilated body is found in her kitchen and to the state police, it's an open-and-shut case of a disaffected husband, silencing first his wife, then the murder investigation he controls.