
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.

A new girl named Lyla comes to a new town and all the guys immediately fall for her, competing to see who can take her to the homecoming dance. Whenever the date she accepts dies, an investigator is brought in to solve the matter ...