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Aseries of murders follows the conviction of a man for the rape and murder of alocal girl. His threats towards his attorney and the presiding judge arefollowed shortly by their macabre deaths. Each is found dead, naked but fortheir shoes, with their head wrapped in a plastic sack. The guilty man issuspected of directing these from his jail cell. However, three additionalmurders are of people not involved in his trial. Each is slain in an identicalmanner. All viable suspects are eliminated which results in confusion for theinvestigators. The possibility of organized mob participation, based on thediscovery of drugs and pornography in which the attorney was apparentlyinvolved, results in a decision for protective custody of the secretary whofound the attorney's body. She is placed in the home of the Police Chief. Hisson, the lead detective in the case, and the secretary soon develop an interestin one another. The FBI is invited into the case and their help develops to beessential in the identification of the murderer. The involvement of an arsonistproves to be a factor in solving other non-related crimes which the FBI hasbeen tracking for several years. The specific identification of a suspect comesabout in an unusual manner. No clues are forthcoming until a break identifies aman from out of state as a possible suspect.