In 1958, a shy young man with few social skills sped along the Santa Ana freeway out of L.A. headed to the desert with his 'date' huddled in the passenger seat beside him. In his pockets, Harvey Glatman had a gun and a length of rope. Drunk on power, arousal, and rage, Harvey also had a plan. And beneath the desert stars, by the light of the moon, he carried out his ordeal of unimaginable cruelty, using his body, a camera and his rope... Months later, after one of his inhuman attacks went awry, Harvey's torture killings were described to a shocked and silent California courtroom. Michael Newton vividly recounts the horror of Glatman's murders and explains how his crimes weren't about killing, raping, and torturing at all...they were all about the rope.