In the early evening hours of July 22, 1995 Three teenage boys, Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt and Joseph Fiorella convinced 15-year-old student Elyse Pahler to come hang out with them and party at a favorite spot of theirs in a eucalyptus grove on the Nipomo Mesa which is an area in California. Pahler had been well acquainted with the boys for a while since they went to school together and the boys also played in a local heavy metal band known as Hatred. She had no idea of the terror that would follow that evening.