Beautiful teenager Jennifer Levin is found strangled to death in Central Park in New York. A prep school heartthrob, Robert Chambers, is arrested for the crime.
Single mother-of-three Linda Culbertson lands a dream job as a legal secretary in a Kansas City law firm. She falls hard for her married boss, Donald Pierce. Their twisted passion draws bystanders into a shocking and vicious crime.
A young couple, the Stuarts, are robbed and shot in Boston. Carol and her unborn child are killed. Charles survives to describe their black assailant, inflaming racial tensions, until a surprise witness comes forward with a story that blows open the case.
15-year-old cheerleader Kirsten Costas is stabbed to death in a California suburb, and a teenage girl is seen fleeing the scene. However, as months pass by without an arrest, the police are stumped.
Stockbroker Joe Pikul and his wife Diane are living the New York high life. When Diane discovers Joe's been leading a double life, a bitter conflict ensues. And within days of the stock market crash of Black Monday, their marriage comes to a violent end.
In the heart of America's devastating Farm Crisis, the largest mass murder in recent Missouri history stuns a small town. An entire family is wiped out. The unlikely suspect is a 14-year-old boy - but the real extent of the horror is even more shocking.