Smart People

In a small Colorado town, Ovid, the story of Ernie Bishop, the local undertaker, is still well known. Sixteen years ago the terrifying legend began, and the town has never recovered. Ernie Bishop stashed teenage prisoners in the basement of his morgue, keeping them tied up, in cabinets meant for dead bodies. He cut, scarred and tortured his unsuspecting victims and then showed them the damage to their own bodies with a small mirror. The memories of those years still resound. One of Bishop's victims, Joan Burrows, escaped from the morgue, killing Bishop in the process and becoming a local hero.