Trace Evidence: The Search for the I-5 Strangler - Softcover

Henderson, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451408780 ISBN 13: 9780451408785

Publisher: Dutton / Signet, 1999

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews with major investigators, a gripping and chilling true account details the startling discovery of several strangled young women by California police in 1986 and the desperate manhunt that ensued to apprehend the elusive "I-5" sex-strangler. Original.

About this title

From the Author

Dear Readers...writing this book impacted me so greatly.
This is not the first book I have written, nor the last. In so many ways, though, it is a story, and a cast of characters, that will stay with me always. It is nonfiction, of course, and there is something about true stories that have always meant more to me than works of fiction (perhaps my journalistic background). I cannot forget the faces of the victims, or the tears of their loved ones who will miss them until their own dying days. I also will never forget the heroes in this story. The victims were women, yes, but so were the heroes -- I considered that "sweet revenge." Without them, the killer would still be on the loose. He came close, much closer than TV or the movies usually show, to getting away with cold-blooded murder. The other thing that is most unusual is the openness with which the wife of the serial killer spoke to me. She had, years earlier, refused to talk to the police or prosecutors. It was a matter of my approaching her at the right time with the right questions. In a real sense, the subplot here is: Portrait of a Serial Killer's Marriage. Talk about unfaithfulness-- can you imagine what it felt like for her when she realized her husband was going away at night, not to have an affair, but to rape and kill other women? Shortly before his trial, the wife nearly died of a heart attack-- but wait, I shouldn't be telling you all this, I suppose. Let it unfold for you the way it did for me -- only in my case it did so over a period of the 2 1/2 years while I worked on it and interviewed hundreds of sources. I will not say "enjoy the book," but I do hope you are moved by it -- and, like me, will be unable to forget those faces, and the women, alive and dead, who populate this story.

About the Author

Bruce Henderson has taught journalism at the University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dutton / Signet
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451408780
• ISBN 13: 9780451408785
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 432