Sergeant and Mrs. Chuck Fowler, a happily married couple in their mid-thirties, apply to adopt a child. Chuck, a successful U.S. Army drill instructor, and Betty, an engaging and active military wife, expect little difficulty in securing a child. Rquired blood tests and subsequent DNA tests tie Betty to four, possibly more, murders of young women in Ohio and Michigan. Her dismayed husband remains loyal, while her grief-stricken mother is shocked into denial. Betty's mother's confusion and Chuck's staunch defense of Betty go further, since both for the first time, find out that Betty Fowler was originally Butch Waddell. Betty obviously has a secretive past. Is it possible that along with once being a man, she was also a murderer?