In the mid-'80s, Kansas City women start to vanish. They all share one thing in common -- an odd connection to the same cunning man who calls himself "The Slave Master." Police must be just as wily if they want to bring down this serial killing sadist.

Someone snatches a student from her college campus in Indiana, while a second missing girl turns up dead months later. Then, terrified girls report a man trying to lure them into his van, but is he the real killer? Police wonder until one man confesses.