CONTENTS

              Author’s Note

              The Town

CHAPTER 1   Stranger in the Dark

CHAPTER 2   Conflicting Perceptions

CHAPTER 3   Double Death in a Car

CHAPTER 4   A Baffling Case

CHAPTER 5   A Boy, a Girl—And a Gunman

CHAPTER 6   Palm Sunday Horrors

CHAPTER 7   Rising Terror

CHAPTER 8   A Legendary Ranger

CHAPTER 9   Fear Stalks by Night

CHAPTER 10 Murder Strikes Home

CHAPTER 11 Nobody Is Safe!

CHAPTER 12 A Media Invasion

CHAPTER 13 Law and Disorder

CHAPTER 14 Behind a Serial Killer’s Façade

CHAPTER 15 An Accidental Break

CHAPTER 16 Incriminating Revelations

CHAPTER 17 The Primary Suspect

CHAPTER 18 Tightening the Noose

CHAPTER 19 Mounting Pressures

CHAPTER 20 A Quiet “Solution”

CHAPTER 21 Behind Walls Again

CHAPTER 22 Back in Court

CHAPTER 23 On the Witness Stand

CHAPTER 24 “Beyond Belief and Incredible”

CHAPTER 25 Life After “Life”

CHAPTER 26 Cracking a Cold Case

               Epilogue

               Source Notes

               Selected Bibliography

               Acknowledgments

               Illustrations