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In New York, I was fortunate indeed to have a brilliant, patient, and incisive editor, Frederic W. Hills; his cheerful and competent assistant, Daphne Bien; and a no-nonsense manuscript editor, Burton Beals. This book also marks two decades with the best agents an author ever had: Joan and Joe Foley.
Last of all, my deep gratitude goes to a very practical helper—Matthew Noel Harris—who single-handedly rescued Chapter 24 from my computer's secret vault.
About the Author
Ann Rule, author of the best-sellers The Stranger Beside Me, Possession, and Small Sacrifices, is one of the foremost true-crime authors in America today. A former Seattle policewoman, she has published 1400 articles and seven books on homicide cases. She is a certified instructor for the National Institute of Corrections, and for continuing education classes for police, probation, and parole departments in many states. She regularly gives seminars to law enforcement professionals on serial murder, sadistic sociopathy, and women who kill. She has testified twice before the United States Senate on these subjects, and lectured to the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia. She was one of five civilians chosen to serve on a U.S. Government task force to set up the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VI-CAP), a tracking system now used by law enforcement agencies all over America to trap serial killers. When she is not researching and writing a book, she makes her home in a suburb of Seattle, Washington.
ANN RULE, author of the bestselling The Stranger Beside Me, Possession and Small Sacrifices, is one of the foremost true-crime writers in America today. A former Seattle policewoman, she has published 1,400 articles and seven books on homicide cases. A certified instructor for the National Institute of Corrections, she regularly gives seminars to law enforcement professionals on serial murder, sadistic sociopathy and women who kill. She was one of five civilians chosen to serve on a U.S. Government task force to set up the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VI-CAP), a tracking system now used by law enforcement agencies all over America to trap serial killers. When she is not researching and writing a book, she makes her home in a suburb of Seattle, Washington.
Table of Contents
Prologue 1
THE CRIME 3
THE INVESTIGATION 143
THE TRIAL 443
Afterword 571
Acknowledgments 589