was rocked by a series of sensational murders, sparking

a thirty-year criminal justice saga. A week of brutal,

seemingly random killings culminated in the provocation

and fatal shooting of Patrolman Leonard Miller, an officer

new to the town of Apollo's police force and only twenty-one

years old. Little more than a year later, two men were

convicted of the rash of homicides and sentenced to death

yet both are alive today. Incorporating details of the central

characters' personal lives as well as the state's court system,

criminologist Michael W. Sheetz here relays the awful story

of the so-called "kill for thrill" crime spree with the drama

of a novelist and the insight of an officer of the law.