Michael was born in 1968 to an abusive father and a timid mother. On his fifth birthday he and his mother got their first glimpse of how cruel he could be. Michael was strapped to a chair and given the first of many birthday beatings. On the eve of Michael's tenth birthday he murdered them both and was committed to a mental hospital in Napa, California. At the front gates of what would surely be hell to the boy, his alter ego spoke up. On April 17, 1989, he was released. With the interstate in front of him and the police and F.B.I. behind him Michael left a trail of bodies and decimated families in his wake. The country lived in fear wondering where he'd strike next.