Plot

A local retired judge's depraved grandson goes on a serial killing spree in Sparta.

A two-hour episode. Todd Walker abandons the body of Peggy Hatcher, whom he has raped and murdered, in a barn on the property of his grandfather, influential Judge Barton Walker. Lyle Harms, who has dated Peggy earlier, is a suspect because of a previous kidnapping. Todd stalks, kidnaps and finally rapes and kills Chelsea Clark, daughter of Felicia Clark, a dean of students at Sparta College. As the bodies are found, Sheriff Bill Gillespie and Chief Hampton Forbes pursue the serial killer in tandem, following the case to its heartbreaking, tragic conclusion. George C. Scott stars as Judge Walker.—richardann

Chief Hampton Forbes and Sheriff Bill Gillespie team up to catch a serial killer after he rapes and murders two young women in Sparta. During the investigation, the grandson of a prominent judge in Sparta emerges as the main suspect in the murders. Chief Forbes ends up having a personal stake in the case when his girlfriend's daughter becomes the latest victim of the deranged killer.—mts77

A retired judge's spoiled grandson is accused of a string of rape/murders, one of the victims being the daughter of Chief Forbes' girlfriend. The judge tries to challenge the validity of evidence when exhibits presented during trial were not mentioned in the search warrant.—Bill Weichand