People Magazine Editorial Director Cynthia Sanz introduces the story of a sadistic murderer who terrorises Dallas in 1991; a series of women are found murdered with their eyeballs surgically removed, leading media to dub him The Eyeball Killer.

In 1993, investigators find the body of a young Florida man in the Everglades; when homicide investigators question his group of friends, they uncover a sordid world of sex, prostitution, and bullying.