Warren James Bland started his career of violent crime in 1958 by gut-slashing a man at a gas station. By the time he kidnapped and killed a 7 year old in 1986.

The disappearance of Phoebe in December of 1986 while on her way to school in South Pasadena, California, sparked a media frenzy and a massive search, which ended after a week with the discovery of her battered and torn body in a ditch in Riverside County. With no crime scene and no suspects, cops were forced to rely on cutting-edge scientific techniques and computer records of sex offender profiles to try to identify the killer.