AUTHOR’S NOTE

The information in this book comes from the interviews I conducted with scores of people involved with Ricardo Caputo or his victims, as well as from police and court documents and newspaper articles. The narrative accounts of what transpired between Caputo and individuals now dead, including material in direct quotation, are drawn from the investigations conducted by the police with associates of the dead individuals, except in one or two instances where, because no other information was available, I made use of information tendered to me by Caputo that I judged to be true.

All the names used in the book are actual, except for those of the woman Caputo attempted to rape in 1975, the woman who kept a diary about him in 1982 and 1983, and the woman who had an affair with him in Mexico City in 1977, who are referred to here as Mary O’Neill, Lotte Angstrom, and Maria Lopez, respectively.