Bernard Hinchecliffe, the owner of a notorious gossip newspaper, the Gazette, orders his managing editor Joseph Randall to increase circulation by publishing a series of articles on the Vorhees case. Years earlier, Nancy Vorhees murdered the man who betrayed her and is now remarried as Mrs. Townsend. Her daughter Jenny is about to marry Phillip Weeks. Randall hires T. Vernon Isopod, a former divinity student, to disguise himself as a clergyman and infiltrate the Townsend home. He learns about the impending marriage and takes photographs. After the first article is published on the day of the wedding, Nancy and her husband take their own lives, causing the wedding to be called off. Jenny becomes hysterical and attempts to shoot Hinchecliffe, but Phillip stops her and threatens to kill the publisher if the articles continue. Ashamed of his role in the tragedy, Randall quits and confronts Hinchecliffe.