This one hour-special tells the true story of serial killer Robert Hansen, an experienced hunter who sought the “cold rush” of something more challenging to feed his killer appetite: human prey.

The Alaskan Pipeline creates an influx of money and people through Alaska, but there are those concerned with the ravaging of this great state's natural resources. One of those people is Louis Hastings - an environmentalist from California. Determined to stop the pipeline, Hastings devises a plan to blow it up, but first he must eliminate all possible witnesses. In the small town of McCarthy, Hastings stalks his victims one by one, determined to carry out his murderous plan.

North of Anchorage is the backwoods brush of Chulitna - a wild country and sportsman's paradise - the perfect spot for whitewater rafting, panning for gold, fishing - and murder. When a vacationing couple fails to return to work after the holiday weekend, state troopers discover they are the victims of cold-blooded murder. Authorities suspect Paul Stavenjord, a mountain man with a colorful past, but Stavenjord goes on the run, sending troopers on an intense manhunt in the dense Alaskan brush.

Best known as the place to see Santa and his sleigh, the tiny town of North Pole, Alaska is a quiet, safe haven. But when the bodies of young women begin turning up one by one, investigators piece together the evidence and realize the cases are eerily similar. By then, the suspect is 4-thousand miles away. As investigators scramble to catch up with the suspected serial murderer before he claims another victim, he concocts a plan to outwit police once and for all.

The remote mountain hide-a-way of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska is a place where everybody knows everybody and strangers are welcome. But, the serenity of this neighborly village is shattered when a heavily armed newcomer rides into town one spring day. The kindness and generosity of residents is met with a bloody assault that leaves one tenth of the town dead, and survivors struggling to understand what made the stranger snap.