Based on a true story of the series of killings by a sex fiend in the states of Florida (St Augustine) and North Carolina where he was finally caught.
The authors have compiled their research and wrote this book based on the recorded details from the PD and also the interviews with the officers who were in charge of the case at that time, and also with the relatives and friends of the murderer and also of the victims.
The murderer himself was actually a normal man; who, however, had a bitter and rather pitiful past of abuse and negligence.
He lost both of his parents in a freak car accident and then was adopted by a couple who was only too glad to take him following their own grief over the loss of their own son.
His foster mother had a strict manner of bringing up the children and often commands control over them. He was rather afraid of her; and had been suppressing himself in fear and frustration over the years.
When he finally met the first woman whom he fell in love with and wanted to marry, he became possessive and turned to abusing her. At the same time, he was involved with another woman whom he met at the bar and this led to the divorce of his first marriage where his first wife was still rather furious with his infidelity.
His second marriage was also not too smooth and there were no accounts as to how violent he was, since his second wife is no longer available to share her opinions.
However, based on the interviews with her relatives and families, they revealed that he was not exactly an angel with his second wife as well.
Having come from such a bitter past, and then he was also found to be diagnosed with cancer, he turned to killing.
Whether it was his past or his way of venting his frustration on those women whom he believed deserve to die for their sins, it was no way to justify his actions and the amount of grief and pain he had inflicted upon the victims and their families.
He targeted mostly women who lived off the streets, had a connection with crack cocaine and using their own mean by prostitution to earn their way to obtaining the crack.
Initially he targeted the white women only; and then he started with the blacks after one who tried to rob him of his money and he killed her.
Although he admitted to seven of the sex slayings, there were suspicions that the number was between 12-20.
It was a rather shocking story revealed and the cruel and heartless way in which he committed the crimes proved that William Lindsey (the crime offender) has no way to justify his own sad background to cause so much harm to the innocent victims and at the same time, the torture that he put their families through who had already suffered to see their lovely daughters' addiction to the hazardous cocaine and selling themselves on the streets.
What could be more horrific than hearing the next news; on their daughters' death and in the most gruesome way anyone can think of; mutilation and sexual abuse prior to their death by murder and then abandoned in a hidden place for weeks before being discovered?
A well-researched book and truly an insightful story on how the man was brought to justice finally.
There are also actual photographs included in the book; of the victims, the murder locations/where the victims are found and also of the PD team who solved the case and brought justice upon the victims' families and the culprit.
I have enjoyed the book and at the same time, I can't say it didn't give me the chills as I read about how these young women lost their lives.
It was definitely insightful and serves as a reminder that nowhere is safe in this world and that extra precaution is no longer a form of paranoia.
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