70 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestWhile Kennedy liberalism in the early 1960s offers new challenges and possibilities, the courageous appointment of a new sheriff and the resolution of a decades long hunt for a serial killer bring closure and new hope to Delano.
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?
Acting
Charlton Heston's final scene will wreck you completely.
Writing
40-year mystery pays off with devastating patience.
Production
Evolving period details trace a town's moral decay.
Creator
Robert W. Lenski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Stuart Woods' debut novel, which he wrote in a beach house with no phone. CBS aired it in one-week 'event' format, rare for the era.
The three-episode structure mirrors the three acts of classic tragedy — each chief rises on ambition and falls on blindness to the evil beneath his feet.
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