 Two jogging high school students are murdered in the woods of McAllister, a Virginia village. The team doubts the apparent marks of a satanic cult and the abbreviation L.O.D. where the boy Adam is found, the girl Cherish Hanson is missing. Local reverend Paul Burke has a prison record for embezzlement, Henry Dent for violence. The sheriffs bright boy Cory Bridges tells a Mike Zizzo fits the profile: a charismatic adult who leads devoted teenagers, called the Lords of Destruction. The team realizes it s all to easy and acts according to another profile, especially after Jason Gideon learned from a girls all school kids except the L.O.D. knew about a decomposing corps but none reported it.