From the introduction:
It was the day the music died. It was the morning of February 3rd, 1959. The bodies of four young women were found mangled and bloody on the side of the road just outside Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. Their cars were smashed up, but you know that that's not the whole story. It wasn't just a car crash.
You were her sweetheart, or her father, or her brother.
You've all fallen asleep in front of the television. The hockey game is long over. It's 2:02 AM. The TV has long since switched over to static. You are all woken up by the call...