A psychopath who just decides he wants to kill someone, to create a perfect crime and picks up hitchhikers and murders them. It's up to the LAPD to track him down.
While investigating a murder, an experienced detective near retirement collects a set of 27 fingerprints. One latent print that he collects looks strangely familiar to him.
The Milledge family is victimized by a local gang called the Icers, who are planning to start a war with a rival group, the Blue Jackets. Frank Milledge (Lawrence Dobkin) tries to keep his family out of it by refusing to cooperate with the sheriff's office -- he doesn't realize that his brother Tommy (Steve Rowland) is a Blue Jacket and a target, along with his whole family.
M.O. of a bank robber is to target a branch manager and invade his home sometime before the bank opens in the morning. The robber then accompanies the manager to work with a gun at his back.
New inmates at a low security prison farm often yearn to escape. An old and wise inmate works to break them of that desire so that they don't end up in the maximum security prison next door.
A man who committed a murder was bitten by a dog that turned out to be suffering from rabies. The police desperately try to find the man, who is unaware of the danger he is in, and is doing his level best to elude the authorities.
The sheriff's deputies respond when a boy is severely injured while playing on an abandoned oil derrick. But the crumbling structure holds dangers for the deputies also.
A petty crook is stabbed. A friend brings the wounded man to the house of his sister, and lays him on the couch, where he dies. In their quest to find the killer, the detectives encounter many suspects, and several associated crimes.
Criminals are selling Government-allocated nickel to metal fabrication shops. They are demanding triple the going price. The detectives need to find out who the crooks are, and where they are getting the nickel.
Detective Hollis and Delacourt of the Vice Squad pose as pool sharps and gamblers. They are after a booking operation; they come upon an even bigger crime.
A sniper has been targeting and shooting women in the Los Angeles area, and so far has racked up seven victims. When the police investigate the sniper's latest shooting, they begin to suspect that it may not be the sniper at all, but a copycat.
A U.S. Marine sergeant on a 3-day pass is hitchhiking home. He is picked up by an angry, aggressive man who viciously attacks him, and leaves him critically wounded. The detectives have few leads in their search for the attacker.
The dying daughter of a clerk wants to go to Honolulu before she dies. The clerk, knowing he'd never be able to afford it but wanting to give her what is her dying wish, begins forging checks to get the money for the trip.
A con artist preys on recent immigrants with families still living in the old country. He poses as a Federal agent who frequently travels to Europe. He tells the victims he can bring their family members to America - for a price.
A man released from a psychiatric hospital tries to prove that he was actually framed by his brother-in-law, a doctor, but he can't get anyone to listen to him. So he decides to take matters into his own hands.
A female cop goes undercover in a women's jail, and her life is in danger when a hardened killer finds out that there's an undercover cop among the inmates and sets out to find out who she is.
