Another student falls to her death a week later, and another of the greasers, David Garcia, joins Jim's class.
Terrified, Jim calls an old acquaintance, Donald Nell, a policeman who knew him and his brother in 1957.
Donald reveals that the three greasers died soon after Wayne's murder; they were fleeing police in a high-speed car chase only to collide with a telephone pole, causing all three to be electrocuted.
Sally is killed while riding a taxi cab when the resurrected greasers force the vehicle off the road.
Finally, after consulting a book of spells, Jim summons a demon; cutting off his own index fingers as a blood sacrifice, he asks that it defeat the undead greasers.
In the film adaptation, Jimmy's brother Wayne comes back after Mueller (one of the original greasers who had survived the crash) sacrifices himself; he learned from the resurrected greasers that a dead person can come back when a living person dies.