In the year 1889, Swayzee, Indiana bakery owner Nikolai Kaminski appeared in Grant County Circuit Court on charges of murdering his wife Sasha, and her accused lover, Tony Romero. Before being sent off to the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City to serve his twenty-five years-to-life sentence, Kaminski vowed to seek revenge against all the members of his jury, the judge, and even his lawyer. Eighteen years later, the prisoner managed a successful escape in the dead of winter, and by spring, a rash of unconnected killings began taking place in the town of Marion. One by one, men from the community were systematically being slain at the hands of an unknown assailant.