Plot Synopsis

DEAD DAYS OF SUMMER is a one-hour docuseries that chronicles murders that take place during the dog days of summer. In the series opener, "One Last Trip," an American student's fun night out in Costa Rica ends in unspeakable violence; residents find the woman's bloodied body lying on the grass; solving the case will require one determined mother, two countries and the answers to many dark secrets. Then, in the second episode, "Twisted Lessons," hunters find the raped and strangled body of vivacious high school student Debbie Gama in a creek in Erie, PA, and police interviews come up empty until new information reveals a dangerous world of sex, drugs and bondage.