Mike was traumatized in his youth when a home invasion went wrong. After the death of his father, he held on to the anger into his adulthood until it boiled over into a pathological need to murder. The gift of a camping shovel was his favorite childhood memory. The shovel became the only constant in his life, along with the reoccurring nightmare that guides his homicidal tendencies. The physical release of his anger using the shovel, he finds the adrenalin rush that becomes his addiction. It's a thrill ride into the mind of a serial killer and the thought process that justifies his killer instinct.