The summer of 1985 was one of the hottest Los Angeles had seen in a century. But terrified residents weren't sleeping with the windows open, they weren't sleeping at all. A killer was on the loose. He was the Night Stalker.

A frantic public, desperate for answers, live in terror, waiting for the man they dubbed "The Co-Ed Killer" to strike again. But no one could have expected that the person responsible, a local man, Edmund Kemper, was living among them.