Paperback: On the night of 12 November 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California, attractive blonde college student Rachel Newhouse was walking home alone when suddenly a stranger appeared in front of her. His visage was a skull-face: a grotesque Halloween mask. Beating her unconscious with her fists, the attacker threw her into his pick-up truck, took her to his secluded canyon cabin and raped her, still wearing the mask. Rachel Newhouse was hog-tied and left to strangle to death.
On 11 March 1999, in the same town, a stalker who had been shadowing Aundria Crawford, 20, broke into her apartment, pummelled her into insensibility, and carried her away in his truck to his canyon lair. There, she was raped, tortured, and murdered.
As Californians reacted with panic and outrage to the two disappearances, parole officer avid Zaragoza paid a routine visit to one of his charges, Rex Allan Krebs, 33, a violent serial rapist who had served only ten years of a twenty-year sentence in Soledad State Prison. After sending Krebs back to jail for violating his parole, Zaragoza discovered Aundria Crawford's eight ball keychain on the premises. An intensive search of the canyon discovered the two victims' bodies buried in shallow graves on the paroled rapist's property. Confessing, alcoholic sex-and-slaughter addict Krebs conceded, "If I am not a monster, then what am I?" A jury answered his question in May 2001, sentencing him to death by lethal injection.
Dead and Buried (2003) gives a shocking account of rape, torture, and murder on the California coast and includes the killer's confession. Dead and Buried can be purchased used on Amazon (UK and US).
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