Chiefs (miniseries)

Chiefs is a television miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Stuart Woods. It was first broadcast on CBS over three nights in November 1983. It was directed by Jerry London, and stars Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover, Wayne Rogers, and Billy Dee Williams. It received three Emmy Award nominations and one Eddie Award nomination.

Not long after his appointment, the townspeople become alarmed by a series of disappearances of young men and boys then the body of a young boy who had been sexually molested is discovered by the train tracks in town. Chief Lee investigates and discovers that welltodo loner Foxy Funderburke Keith Carradine is responsible, but Chief Lee is mistakenly shot by a delirious man before he can arrest the wellregarded local. Funderburke hovers in the background in the hospital room while the dying Lee tries to gasp out the truth about Funderburkes guilt, but Lees wife fails to understand. Despite the feverish delirium that caused him to believe that the police chief was trying to kill his son, the man who shot Lee is executed.Now again free from suspicion, Funderburke continues a decades long spree of sexually motivated murders. Shortly after World War II, crooked and violent Army veteran Sonny Butts is appointed to the post of assistant police chief in Delano because he is a war hero. When the serving chief dies of a heart attack, the city council appoints Butts to fill the vacancy. Butts figures out Funderburkes guilt, just as town father Holmes tells Butts he is about to take his badge due to a series of depredations culminating in Buttss murder of a Medgar Everslike figure. Sure that solving the decadeslong mystery will save his job, Butts goes to Funderburkes land and catches him in the very act of burying his latest victim. But as Butts chortles over his victory, letting down his guard, Funderburke strikes Butts with the shovel in his hands, shoots Butts with his own police revolver, and buries his body on the spotalong with his police motorcycle. No one makes the connection between the disappearance of Butts and the longunsolved murders. ........

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