Edgar Lee Dwyer was a traveling poet in the late 1990s who rose to fame as the suspected "Melancholy Killer", a serial killer who murdered nine people across the country, from Seattle to Raleigh. Arrested in 1998, he gained a following of loyal fans who believe that their poet is innocent and wrongly accused. Twenty years after his arrest, he was found murdered following a prison riot and his belongings were sent to you.