Sudden Terror

This book is based on the actual case of the East Area Rapist, later also known as the Original Night Stalker, a masked man who terrorized California communities for ten years; 1976 through 1986, and possibly to this day. Because I was not involved in the initial rape investigations, they are written from hundreds of reports, notes, memos, newspaper clippings, conversations and interviews with those who were involved. The crimes are factual. The crimes are real. While all characters and events have direct counterparts in the telling of the story, I have created some dialogue in the interest of readability. The cops in the initial rapes are not factual, their actions are. Their names and descriptions are completely fictitious. The names of the victims, witnesses and suspects are fictitious; the terror, the dialogue during the crimes, and the investigations are real. The cops involved in the cases after I was involved are real, their names and dialogue is factual, the investigations are real. The pain and terror may have diminished in the minds of the victims, I hope that the pain does not return. My intent is to tell the story without endangering the privacy or the dignity of the victims. They have suffered enough.

• HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH: The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation - The Original Investigator Speaks Out
• Case Files of the East Area Rapist / Golden State Killer
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
• Secret Origin of the Golden State Killer: Visalia Ransacker
• Murder On His Mind: The Original Night Stalker - A Family Member Speaks
• The Case Of The Golden State Killer: Based On The Podcast With Additional Commentary, Photographs And Documents (Criminology Podcast Season Two)
• Frozen in Fear: A True Story of Surviving the Shadows of Death
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
• American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
• In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders