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.
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.
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.
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.