Kill for Thrill: The Crime Spree That Rocked Western Pennsylvania

During the winter of 1979, southwestern Pennsylvania was rocked by a
series of sensational murders, sparking a thirty-year criminal justice
saga. A week of brutal, seemingly random killings culminated in the
provocation and fatal shooting of Patrolman Leonard Miller, an officer
new to the town of Apollo's police force and only twenty one years old.
Little more than a year later, two men were convicted of the rash of
homicides and sentenced to death - yet both are alive today.
Incorporating details of the central characters' personal lives as well
as the state's court system, criminologist Michael W. Sheetz here relays
the awful story of the so-called "kill for thrill" crime spree with the
drama of a novelist and the insight of an officer of the law.