Maniac Cop

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City. Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York City by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again. —Mr_John_Barrymore In New York, a tall and strong man dressed like a NYPD officer is killing innocent people in the night. Detective Frank McCrae is assigned to investigate the case and suspects that either a police officer or a whistleblower is providing inside information to the killer. McCrae discloses the information to a journalist, and the killer is called the maniac cop by the press. When the police officer Jack Forrest is accused of killing his wife Ellen Forrest in a cheap motel room, he is arrested. But he holds the name of his lover that could give an alibi to him, the cop Theresa Mallory, to protect her. McCrae is convinced that Forrest is innocent and was framed, and asks Forrest and Theresa who knew their love affair. Theresa tells that she disclosed her secret to the crippled Sally Noland, who works in bureaucratic department. McCrae follows this lead and reaches the name of a cop that died in Sing Sing, Matt Cordell. Now he intend to investigate what happened to Cordell in the prison. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil In New York City, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own wife. To prove his innocence, he has to investigate on his own. —Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>