A young girl lies brutally murdered next to her car at a mall in Livingston, Texas. Bob Hardy watches the story on the late-night news and receives a call from his friend Archie Jenkins, who is also a Livingston Detective, with information about the slaying. The method of the girl's homicide is terribly similar to the way Bob's wife and six other victims died five years earlier. Across town, the newscast has also stirred a dread in the elders of the...