This book is about a serial rapist and murderer. It's unpleasant. Reading this book report will likely be unpleasant. Rape and murder are bad and it's a real bummer to read about someone getting away with repeated violent crime.
The victim's name is Manuella. She was murdered. She's a german imigrant who act's like a steriotypical german person. Overly critical and not a very warm person. She has dinner with her parents every night. Her husband David was in the hospital the night she was murdered. Initially the cops thought he might have hired someone to have her killed. Cause that's what it is a lot of the time. But Criminalogist Jim White knew he didn't do it. He processed the scene. He's processed lots of scenes like this.
ch 2 Dana Point 1980
The victim's here are Patty and Keith. They were discovered by Patty's dad roger. They were in their bed under the covers. It was obvious they were dead. The cops don't find any useful clues. Once again Jim White is involved in the scene processing. I suppose I shouldn't say once again as this actually happed first. There was one thing that united the murders. Wooden matches were found at both scenes. None of the victims smoked. The idea is the murderer smokes and uses wooden matches to light his cigarettes.
ch 3 hollywood 2009
Our narrator is at a hollywood movie permier. She hears about a double murder on the internet. They have the suspect in custody. His anme is Joseph henery burgess. She thinks he might be the golden state killer. She calls a guy from the LA times to tell him about it. She understands that being "stuck" at a fancy LA movie premier isn't really relatable. Her husband is an actor. My first thought " must be nice." she leaves early to go home and look into the killer more.
ch 4 oak park
Thus in oak park Illinois. A suburb of cgivago with lots of Irish Catholic. Lots of stuff about Michelle's upbringing and the neighbor murder that forever has her fascinated by unsolved murders. A guy she went to grade school with was in the group of kids that found the body. Creepy tall Indian guy is what they came up with for a suspect. But the cops didn't take them seriously and the case is unsolved. There's lots of unsolved cases. If a person kills a stranger for no good reason and no one is there to see it, nor a lot to go on.
CH 5 Sacramento 1976 1977
For these two years Sarcramento was a nonstop nightmare. Over twenty times the East Area Rapist broke into a married couples house with a gun, made the wife tie up.the husband, then tied up and raped her. Gun sales went through the roof, everyone bought flood lights for their yards. To our knowledge, nothing helped as the EAR Wasn't caught or stopped in any of his attempts.
CH 6 visalia
From 73 to 75 Vasalia had a prowler/Robert they called the ransacker. There are some that think this person is the EAR/GSR. Others, not so much.
CH 7 Orange County 1996
1996 is when real good DNA processing and cataloging made it to California. They had 2500 or so cold cases with DNA evidence hanging out from way back in the day. With the ability to process that evidence and compare the DNA to known criminals they were able to solve over 1500 of those. Where this is pertinent to the GSK is that three cases were linked by his DNA. Including the one in the next chapter
ch 8 Irvine 1986
The victim is a single woman named Janelle. She had a real bad upbringing and as an adult had a plethora of male sexual partners without a lot of meaningful relationships. What that meant to the cops was that therewere lots of suspects. She was found in the in a hous that was for sale or empty or something cause a realter found the body. Blunt force trama. Nobody was arrested. Then years later all suspicion of the possible suspects was removed when DNA evidence cleared them but linked the murder to three others.
ch 9 Venture 1980
Another double murder of a married couple. Like a lot of these the ferocity and brutality of the crime makes the cops think it's somoen close to the couple that was somehow enranged by something they did and then rape and murder followed. But this is a book about a serial killer. Someone that just liked to kill. He didn't know the couple except for that he somehow chose them for this. So the cops investigate a lot of people connected to the couple, they had a suspect that went to trial mostly on the testimony of the suspect's priest who testified that the suspect confessed to him. Turns out, the priest had done this a bunch in the past, the suspect's lawyer found out about it and the case fell apart.
ch 10 goleta 1979
This is near Santa Barbara. This is where the east side rapist who used to be "just" a ransacker murders for the first time. He stabbed a dog, they are able to get the dog to a pet ER and with 70 stitches the dog is saved. They didn't know it was the GSK. They thought the dog stumbled and cut itself on something sharp. The GSK tried to kill for the first time and it didn't work out. He was oveheard trying to psyche himself up. Saying "I'm gonna kill em" with grim determination. The girlfriend was able to break break her bonds and run away screaming. Neighbors heard and GSK was scared away. He did murder in December of 1979. It wasn't the efficient kills we've read about in his later years. The husband started to run away and GSK shot him three times and shot the wife once. They found his shoe prints all over the neighborhood in people's back yards. He punched a lady's poodle in the eye.
CH 11 Goleta 1981
This chapter is all about Cheri and the struggles she's having with her daughter Debi. Debi has run away from home. She calls to tell her mom she needs to come home to get her swimsuit. Her mom says no, Debi stays away. Cheri had her no against off again boyfriend over and the GDK kills them. The others killed around this time and location are all unmarried couples. Some thought the.killer was a religious nut. This chapter has.lots of.pictures and notes and what not.
CH 12 orange county 2000
Larry Pool is a cop. He's digging into these old GSK cold cases. Santa Barbara doesn't have access to the DNA stuff that's linked the murders from 79 to 86 and this is a bummer cause Santa Barbara is where Larry is focussing. His compatriates think it's a little silly. SErial killers don't stop. So this guy who's last known murder was 1986 is either dead or in jail. But he's still digging into it. Expecially the earliest murders in Santa Barbara in 1979. This is back when the GSK didn't really know what he was doing and almost got caught a couple times. Larry's thinking maybe he can dig into those a little more and find something useful.
ch 13 Contra Costa, 1997
Paul Holes is a young CSI guy. John Murdock is an old CSI guy. Nearing retirement, ro maybe already retired? Anyway, Paul and John are going to a CSI guy conference together and Paul talks about how he's seen all these boxes marked EAR. So he asks John about them and gets the whole horrifying story of the East Area Rapist. Paul gets into the DNA stuff and eventaully by 2001 he's able to compare their DNA with Orange County's DNA and conclusively proove that the East Area Rapist is the Golden State Killer. It was in all the papers. Larry Pool is kinda pissed off about this. He knew the EAR was still out there doing bad stuff and everyone else told him not to bother with it.
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