The Clovehitch Killer is the story of a small community that is still searching for a serial killer who tied up and brutally murdered 10 women. After a decade of inactivity, the identity of the man responsible is still questioned by locals, some of whom consider themselves “experts” on the still open investigation.
The Clovehitch Killer sees 16-year-old Tyler Burnside (Charlie Plummer) finding a photo of a bound woman in between the seats of his dad’s (Dylan McDermott) pickup truck one night when the teenager is on a date with another student. Tyler’s date sees it, too, and word quickly spreads around their high school and church and make the young man out to be a fetishist. Now ostracized for a photograph that isn’t his, Tyler begins to suspect that, since the photo was found in his dad’s vehicle, that his dad might be the dormant serial killer.