**SPOILERS** Not really wanting to have anything to do with this case true crime & mystery writer Bruce Simon Barker gets himself up to his neck in murder and kidnapping with the abduction of Baby Adrian. Adrian is the infant son of millionaires, from what her father left her, Catherine Hainey Mitchelson.
Being snatched right out of his crib when his nanny Josianne turned her back for a brief moment Adrian is suspected to have been kidnapped by his father, the estranged husband of Catherine, Victor Mitchelson. Victor claiming his innocence is taken into custody despite that he can't produce Adrian or where he's, if in fact he kidnapped him, being kept.
With Simon coming, at the insistence of his nagging teenage daughter Olivia, on the scene he's treated as dirt if not worse by both Catherine and her not so stable sister Claire as nothing more then a greedy and unethical ambulance chaser. Simon in fact is really interested in finding Baby Adrian more then writing an exploitive book about the crime that's has now become the biggest story on the West Coast. Simon is both sick and tired in waiting true crime stories and is only doing this, his investigation of the Baby Adrian kidnapping, as a favor to his good friend in the L.A Police Department the by now helplessly drunk lady Police Inspector Strong.
As Simon suspected Victor is found to be completely innocent, by the LA District Attorney, in his sons Adrian's kidnapping and released from prison. In Victor knowing too much about who was really responsible in his sons Adrians kidnapping he ends up paying the ultimate price: His Life. Victor was gunned down by an unseen assailant as he was sitting in his office. The killer also leaves a suicide note but it's, Victor's phony suicide & note, so sloppy that no one, the LAPD or the L.A DA's office, believes that he really killed himself.
Soon Simon, in his crime solving expertise, starts to close in on who's behind not only Baby Adrain's kidnapping but also Victor's murder. Simon starts to zeros in on the Mitchelson family friend and personal lawyer Henry Stokes who seems to know more about this baffling case then he's letting out. Stokes, the man with the secrets, has a good idea to who's behind Victor's killing that's somehow connected with the Baby Adrian kidnapping but soon ends up himself murdered the same way Victor was. With a bullet in his head as he was sitting in his office and a suicide note by his killer planted at the murder scene!
Simon who was to see Stokes that very morning is now implicated, Stokes killing or staged suicide was as sloppily executed as that of Victors, in his murder. Finding very explosive evidence in Stokes office, after he was gunned down, that leads to who's behind both his and Victors murders, as well as baby Adrian's kidnapping, Simon is now in danger of being murdered himself in him knowing too much.
Wild and really crazy final with Simon confronting who's behind all these unexplainable, until Simon figured them out, crimes in the movie as the killer, by now totally and murderously insane, attempts to murder him. The fact that Simon took the killer's gun away from him didn't help much with Simon, who seemed to have trouble keeping focus, turning his back on him. This had the very alert killer grab his gun back and then in a life and death struggle shoot Simon in the leg!
Just when we, and Simon, thought that this is the end, in Simon getting gunned down and killed, we get the biggest surprise in the movie and it doesn't at all, since it was a foregone conclusion in the first place, have to do with the killers identity.
Being snatched right out of his crib when his nanny Josianne turned her back for a brief moment Adrian is suspected to have been kidnapped by his father, the estranged husband of Catherine, Victor Mitchelson. Victor claiming his innocence is taken into custody despite that he can't produce Adrian or where he's, if in fact he kidnapped him, being kept.
With Simon coming, at the insistence of his nagging teenage daughter Olivia, on the scene he's treated as dirt if not worse by both Catherine and her not so stable sister Claire as nothing more then a greedy and unethical ambulance chaser. Simon in fact is really interested in finding Baby Adrian more then writing an exploitive book about the crime that's has now become the biggest story on the West Coast. Simon is both sick and tired in waiting true crime stories and is only doing this, his investigation of the Baby Adrian kidnapping, as a favor to his good friend in the L.A Police Department the by now helplessly drunk lady Police Inspector Strong.
As Simon suspected Victor is found to be completely innocent, by the LA District Attorney, in his sons Adrian's kidnapping and released from prison. In Victor knowing too much about who was really responsible in his sons Adrians kidnapping he ends up paying the ultimate price: His Life. Victor was gunned down by an unseen assailant as he was sitting in his office. The killer also leaves a suicide note but it's, Victor's phony suicide & note, so sloppy that no one, the LAPD or the L.A DA's office, believes that he really killed himself.
Soon Simon, in his crime solving expertise, starts to close in on who's behind not only Baby Adrain's kidnapping but also Victor's murder. Simon starts to zeros in on the Mitchelson family friend and personal lawyer Henry Stokes who seems to know more about this baffling case then he's letting out. Stokes, the man with the secrets, has a good idea to who's behind Victor's killing that's somehow connected with the Baby Adrian kidnapping but soon ends up himself murdered the same way Victor was. With a bullet in his head as he was sitting in his office and a suicide note by his killer planted at the murder scene!
Simon who was to see Stokes that very morning is now implicated, Stokes killing or staged suicide was as sloppily executed as that of Victors, in his murder. Finding very explosive evidence in Stokes office, after he was gunned down, that leads to who's behind both his and Victors murders, as well as baby Adrian's kidnapping, Simon is now in danger of being murdered himself in him knowing too much.
Wild and really crazy final with Simon confronting who's behind all these unexplainable, until Simon figured them out, crimes in the movie as the killer, by now totally and murderously insane, attempts to murder him. The fact that Simon took the killer's gun away from him didn't help much with Simon, who seemed to have trouble keeping focus, turning his back on him. This had the very alert killer grab his gun back and then in a life and death struggle shoot Simon in the leg!
Just when we, and Simon, thought that this is the end, in Simon getting gunned down and killed, we get the biggest surprise in the movie and it doesn't at all, since it was a foregone conclusion in the first place, have to do with the killers identity.