Crime Time Live is the wildly popular radio program in which host Johnny Jingles, a former homicide inspector with a morbid urge for attention, tries to solve a murder live on the air. This week, the crime takes him to the small town of Slasherville where Peggy O'Dell, one of the waitresses, was brutally murdered at the local diner. Everyone is shocked by this sudden horror in the otherwise peaceful hamlet. When Johnny puts her colleagues and her regular customers on the schedule, it soon becomes apparent that not everything is equally tasty in The Dashboard Diner...