Publisher's Synopsis
The author presents a true story of Los Angeles, Hillside Strangler - a series of grisly killings of young women by strangulation that plagued the city in the late seventies. It is a detailed recounting of the extensive and repetitive mismanagement of interviews, an assemblage of pertinent facts, and sharing of features by component and vying police investigative teams.
One after another, they appear by the sides of suburban roads and freeways - the naked, strangled bodies of women who have been raped, tortured and left for dead. Police begin to suspect that their target is a rogue operator who has appeared from their own ranks. And then, all hell breaks loose in Los Angeles. An arrest in the strangling murders of two co-eds across state lines finally leads to a break in the case, but the suspect is someone the investigators could have ever expected. None of them are prepared for the dark journey through the mazes of the human mind it will take to unlock the door to justice. From the author of the bestselling Gone: Catastrophe in Paradise. this book is talking about the worst of American history.
