Detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate a series of killings in which the murdered women have silver paint on their bodies.
A rich college student is found dead at MacArthur park; at first it looks like a drug deal gone bad, but it turns out to have nothing to do with drugs.
The police investigate the brutal slaying of a movie producer whose body is found on the side of Mulholland Drive.
While investigating the brutal murder of a little-known actress, Detectives Friday and Smith come across a number of people who might have information including a tabloid journalist, a wannabe porn star and a socially prominent Los Angeles family.
Friday and Smith race to find the son of a deranged man who's intent on killing his entire family.
The fiancé of a rising young Hollywood actress is found stabbed to death in the Hollywood Hills. Detectives Friday and Smith visit a movie studio head and a drug dealer to look for clues and find a shocking secret.
A customer is killed during a multimillion dollar jewelry robbery. During the investigation, Friday and Smith meet a British insurance company P.I. who attempts to use them to recover the stolen jewels. Friday also knocks heads with the arrogant owner of a private security company.
Detectives Friday and Smith investigate the satanic ritual killing of a teen girl. They look at her classmates including one who admits he should be the prime suspect.
Detective Friday and Detective Beltran find out a hidden secret behind a run-of-the-mill suicide.
A Hollywood super-agent's infant son is kidnapped. It is discovered that the infant is the nanny's. That is the least of the problems for the Detectives on this case.
A woman reported missing six years ago that hasn't been seen since mysteriously turns up dead in her car. As the case unfolds, the detectives are lead to the murderer and get to the bottom of why she went missing.
While trying to protect an innocent suspect linked to the criminal Sanchez brothers, Friday puts his career on the line by going after a corrupt cop, and must face the resulting inquiry.
Joe and his crew investigate the murder of a teenager who was burned and left for dead. Family honor is put to the test when the victim's father wants justice while assailant's father protects his child from the law.
The detectives discover a major prostitution ring while investigating a woman's murder.
Detective Raymond Cooper looks for help to find those involved in a deadly gang war.
The death of a fan at a wild Hollywood party leads the detectives to a record producer with a gun fetish.
When fishermen find a woman's headless body offshore, detectives discover she had recently given birth, but there was no sign of the baby.
The detectives investigate the abduction and killing of the son of a couple involved in an alternative lifestyle.
The killing of a traveling salesman maybe connected to the unsolved murder of an adult movie star's father.
Detectives suspect an alleged victim of sexual abuse is responsible for decapitating an Orthodox priest.
The deaths of an artist and his girlfriend lead the detectives to a case of poisoned drugs; when they arrest the dealer, they have to prevent more people from dying and find the man who made the drugs.
When a man is arrested for shoplifting while using a missing person's car, the police find the belongings of two other missing people in the car. The suspect kills himself while in custody. Soon afterward, the detectives find in his house not only torture elements and videos but also human bones and several graves; one of the videos indicates that there was an accomplice.