In rural California, a new team of detectives launches a hunt for the undiscovered victims of boyhood best friends turned serial murderers, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. The so-called “Speed Freak Killers” were accused of murdering six people in the 1980s and 1990s, but it’s believed they may have killed dozens more, many of whom have never been found.
Welcome to Linden, a small farming community in California’s San Joaquin Valley and the childhood home of Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog. The pair grew up exploring and hunting game in the fields and orchards around town, but just after high school, they turned their sights on humans. The rural expanse provided the perfect backdrop for the duo’s killing spree.
Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog could be among the most prolific killers in American history, but the detectives struggle to separate the men from the myth. With so many missing persons cases on their desk, they attempt to make sense of the killers’ chaotic and unpredictable methodology.
When a Linden farmer finds a bone inside an old well, the community is left wondering if the Shermantine and Herzog case is about to break wide open once again. Any mention of bones and wells in Linden brings back haunting echoes from the past.
The detectives find themselves stuck in Shermantine’s twisted game, struggling to find a path forward without help from the killer himself. Is this a game they can ever win? Sergeant Jimenez and her team make an unexpected and controversial move, hoping to find the missing information that could finally lead to the discovery of more victims.
A stunning and controversial move from California Governor Gavin Newsom opens the door to a death row meeting between the detectives and Wesley Shermantine. It could be the team’s best and final hope of finding more victims.