Sin City Secrets: Bruce Weinstein & Amy DeChant

When a beloved bookie disappears from his Las Vegas home, police believe that he may have been killed for being a police informant. However, when not one but two bodies are found buried in the desert, suspicion is cast upon his love life.

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