Dead Kids

Somewhere in the American heartland Dr Claude Le Sange is conducting a few experiments... Murder, mayhem and mystery strikes fear into a quiet town. Murder is unknown to the inhabitants of the Mid-Western college town of Galesburg, Illinois, until teenager Lucy Brown is attacked by a knife-wielding maniac at a fancy dress party. Her date, Waldo Davis, is slain before her eyes. The town is shocked, but for Police Department Chief, John Brady, this is only the prelude. Another high-school kid, Bryan Morgan, is discovered - very dead and horribly mutilated. Worse still, the Crime Lab. pathologists are convinced two murderers are at large. Student Pete Brady, son of the Police Chief, is financing himself through college. He and his friend Oliver Myerhoff become interested in a research programme into a field of auto-suggestion first developed by the since-deceased Dr LeSange. At $100 per day Pete volunteers to take part in the research and finds that the lectures are those of Dr LeSange in video cassette format. Mrs Haskell, a cleaning lady, interrupts the dismembering of another student, but has time to telephone the police before being stabbed to death herself. The murder trail leads to the college psychiatry department's experiments.