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The China Lake Murders
The China Lake Murders is a 1990 television film starring Tom Skerritt. It is about a small desert town that experiences a series of murders. The film was rated PG-13 and first aired on the USA Network and for many years held the record for the highest rated basic cable film.
It is an adaptation of the 1983 short film "China Lake" by Robert Harmon.
Synopsis.
The sheriff of China Lake is confronted with a series of grisly murders that have shocked the small desert
member of the United States Navy from 1962 until 1964. Sampson was employed as a research chemical engineer at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake California, in the area of high energy solid propellants and case bonding materials for solid rocket motors. Sampson also served as the Director of Mission Development and Operations of the Space Test Program at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.
Patents.
His patents included a binder system for propellants and explosives and a case bonding system for cast