A KILLER WAITS

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Memphis, 1986, a city still healing after decades of racial strife and one of the top ten murder cities in the U.S., is about to be dealt another blow to its reputation. A young Asian girl is found brutally slain and blood-drained among the decayed ruins of the old Magnolia Drive-In Theater.
Captain Joseph “Buddy” Stern, pressured by the mayor and commissioner, orders Detectives Alexander Travis and Isaac Joe Turner to head up the investigation, not realizing that the pairing of the feuding cops could spur the racist killer to kill again. Not only are Travis and Turner two of Stern’s best detectives, they are also black.
Travis, head of narcotics, is educated, married and still in love with his wife, Michelle, whom he met in college when they marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr.. Turner, top cop with the vice squad, is streetwise and well-liked by the other cops for his self-deprecating humor and unethical involvement with prostitutes he has arrested. Lack of trust, continual verbal abuse, and Turner’s suspected drug use drives the wedge deeper and deeper between the two cops. Now they must gain trust, even admiration, and work together to capture this crazed serial killer.
Author K.O. Johnson resides in Austin, Texas where he has directed theater for over forty years. A prize winning playwright and filmmaker, Mr. Johnson’s plays and films have played all across the United States and on PBS. His Spanish/English film EL ABANDONADO can be rented on Netflix.
The filmscript of A KILLER WAITS placed in the top ten percent at the Austin Film Festival out of three thousand entries.
Another Travis and Turner thriller, THE HEARTLESS MURDERS, is in the works.