HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation The Original Investigator Speaks Out eBook Richard Shelby
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JUNE 16, 2016 - At a press conference today in Sacramento, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the East Area Rapist/killer along with a nationwide multimedia campaign to once again bring the case to the public’s attention.
Hunting A Psychopath chronicles the on-going search for the identity of the serial rapist and murderer known both as the East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker. The author first lays the ground work for how the investigation was conducted. Then using what reports are still available, plus some personal insights, he examines each assault in the order they occurred. Gradually the methods used by the EAR/ONS in first searching out his victims, then stalking them, come to light.
The EAR/ONS first surfaced in June,1976,in Sacramento, CA. He was last heard from in May, 1986,in Irvine, CA, where he brutally murdered an eighteen year old woman. In between those years he stayed busy, assaulting fifty-three people, and murdering twelve more, while spreading a blanket of fear across central CA and parts of Southern CA. It has been over thirty-years now,and still he has not been brought to justice.
Although there have been other unsolved crimes of this same nature and of even greater magnitude, this series seems to have had a lasting impact on the public -- enough so that a virtual army of private citizens are pursuing this investigation on their own. When time permits, there are full time police officers who also work this investigation.
By examining the information from each assault, it gradually becomes clear just how meticulous the EAR/ONS was. Every detail, from selecting a victim, to the actual assault, appear to have been carefully planned and orchestrated. The EAR/ONS was as devoted to committing sexual assaults and murders as anyone devoted to their own profession. In a distorted way, he was a professional rapist / murderer, and quite probably a certifiable psychopath.
Perhaps this continuing interest is because those wanting to involve themselves in the investigation know it can still be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation The Original Investigator Speaks Out eBook Richard Shelby
This was a rapist/serial killer in California far worse than the Zodiac but not as famous. He started out in the state capital area, or maybe Visalia, no one knows for sure, but he became known as the East Area Rapist, or EAR. It's a terrible name and probably the main reason he isn't more well known.To make matters worse, his move to southern California and serial murder earned him the 'Original Night Stalker' nick, or 'ONS' (not to be confused with just plain 'Night Stalker' Richard Rameriz). Subsequent DNA testing confirmed that EAR and ONS were one and the same, which resulted in the unfortunate EARONS portmanteau. Well, it's just confusing and not catchy, so writer Michelle McNamara came up with 'Golden State Killer' for her upcoming book: "I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer".
She died suddenly, (a woman in her forties..just sayin') but publication will go on, set for Feb. 2018.
In the meantime I found this book written by Det. Shelby who was on the Sacramento EAR task force. It's self-published without even the benefit of an editor, that's how little interest there is. Shelby admits upfront that he didn't write it to entertain. He sticks to the facts and only to the facts of the case, which are chilling enough, but I can't help but wonder what Ann Rule would've done with it.
What I learned only adds to the mystery of how this creep has managed to evade capture. He would target a neighborhood first, at least two weeks before the rape. Residents would report prowling, burglarizing, and crank calling several homes leading up to the assault. He risked being caught exponentially with all his creepy activity. One person did report pictures missing, and a police search found a length of rope under her couch cushions. He was laying in supplies and she was on his to-do list for that night.
His list of crimes are textbook in escalation, from prowling, peeping, ransacking, burglary, rape, and homicide. It's doubtful he's been in prison, and his DNA has never surfaced elsewhere.
Although Shelby refuses to name who he thinks it might be, his chapter on Carlos was interesting. The fact that Carlos moved to a boat off the California coast and *still lives here* is creepy as hell. It's a real murder mystery.
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HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation The Original Investigator Speaks Out eBook Richard Shelby Reviews
I became interested in this case when the FBI sought the public's help in 2016 and when I read a news article about that request. This book by a Sacramento Sheriff's Dept. detective will be fascinating to anyone who is already interested in the case and who wants to learn more. The author writes that he is seeking to correct the record since so many armchair detectives discuss the case online and sometimes have bad information, and this addition to the record by a participant is its primary value. The author recognizes that he is no writer and that the book will read like a series of police reports, and he is right -- the kindle edition, at least, is in very bad need of editing. There are many missing words, random periods and commas, etc. A detective named Bevins is called "Bevin's" or "Blevins" dozens of times for no apparent reason, sometimes in the same paragraph (for instance, "At the top of the departmental food chain was a personal friend of Sgt. Blevins. He offered Sgt. Bevin’s an all expense paid trip . . ."). Even so, the meaning is always apparent and Det Shelby doesn't pretend to be anything other than someone adding his insider's knowledge to the record. Shelby really does not articulate his own conclusions very much. A possible suspect named Carlos is discussed in tantalizing detail near the end, but then the whole thing is just dropped with no indication of what investigators concluded about Carlos or what Shelby thinks. Numerous hints are made that a case could be made for two perpetrators working together, but that idea is never examined in any depth either. So, if you are interested in this case, you will enjoy Det. Shelby's contribution, but will probably wish for more analysis (and an editor).
I am a fan of the show "Dark Minds" on the Investigation Discovery Network, with M. William Phelps and John Kelly. I like the show surely more than most, based upon the ratings on this site. I do believe that the show has probably been cancelled though, because there hasn't been a new episode in a while. I hope I'm wrong.
But on that show, Mr. Phelps featured the crimes of "The East Area Rapist/The Original Nightstalker" (EAR/ONS) during one of the episodes, and I believe that's the first time that I had heard of the case, even though I now live very near where the EAR cases occurred. And then, I believe around June of 2016, the FBI "reopened" the EAR/ONS case. Sure, the case wasn't really reopened per se, as it has remained open and unsolved, but the FBI just released composite drawings of the killer, hoping to jog someone's memory. Personally, I think that the case has now become too cold to solve in this manner; I think that it will require some luck, by getting the DNA of the killer, or perhaps one of his relatives, and if this happens, it will most likely be by just a stroke of luck. And probably while pursuing some other investigation.
But in reality, I believe that if EVERYONE in the United States were required to read this book -- "Hunting a Psychopath" (HAP) -- that someone would almost surely realize who the real ONS might be. After all, if you read this book -- and I give a pretty strong recommendation that you do -- you will learn many of the very strange idiosyncrasies of the serial killer, and it is almost surely the case that someone has seen some of these same idiosyncrasies of the killer when he's living his "normal" life, if any normalcy is possible. And from memory, during that "Dark Minds" episode that I discussed earlier, I think that Mr. Kelly gave this same opinion, in a roundabout way.
But in reality -- even more so this time -- I believe that the ONS is actually dead. Why? Well, he stopped killing in 1986; he would've been somewhere between 30 and 35, maybe 40 tops, at that point, and serial killers rarely stop killing on their own. Supposedly, he made an "I'm going to kill you call" to one of his victims in the early 90s, but I'm not really sure that he was the actual caller. Assuming he wasn't, consider the following coincidence in 1986, the first case in the world was being investigated using DNA technology. Surely, the ONS knew about this case, and more than likely, he was terrified of being caught, and it's possible that he was so terrified, that he maybe committed suicide around that time. (I know that some FBI profilers believe that he killed himself, and I think it's a very good theory. It explains many things, including why he stopped killing. The idea that he is in jail for some other crime is less likely, because there's a good chance his DNA would've been taken, especially in California, and a match would've been made.)
If you're looking for a real barnburner of a true-crime book, this may not be for you. It is pretty much a just-the-facts-ma'am kind of read, a play-by-play account of the EAR/ONS's crimes. But still, the author is very funny, and I actually laughed quite a bit while reading. I read a book awhile back entitled, "In Cold Pursuit My Hunt for Timothy Krajcir," and while the writing in that book is certainly better, I nearly panned it because the author -- Paul Echols -- who was the key detective in the capture of Mr. Krajcir, is seemingly so fearful of offending anyone that he almost never writes anything negative about any of his peers. In other words, I'm skeptical about many details in that book. Here, the author -- Richard Shelby -- has no problems discussing even his "worst nemesis" in the police department, which I think is very funny. And very real. After all, I don't know anybody who's worked anywhere who hasn't hated someone.
Well, I'll recommend watching that "Dark Minds" episode, and then reading HAP. And like I wrote, if everyone were required to read it, I believe that there is someone out there who would say, "Hey, I know who this guy is!" even if the killer is now dead. It's almost guaranteed.
This was a rapist/serial killer in California far worse than the Zodiac but not as famous. He started out in the state capital area, or maybe Visalia, no one knows for sure, but he became known as the East Area Rapist, or EAR. It's a terrible name and probably the main reason he isn't more well known.
To make matters worse, his move to southern California and serial murder earned him the 'Original Night Stalker' nick, or 'ONS' (not to be confused with just plain 'Night Stalker' Richard Rameriz). Subsequent DNA testing confirmed that EAR and ONS were one and the same, which resulted in the unfortunate EARONS portmanteau. Well, it's just confusing and not catchy, so writer Michelle McNamara came up with 'Golden State Killer' for her upcoming book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer".
She died suddenly, (a woman in her forties..just sayin') but publication will go on, set for Feb. 2018.
In the meantime I found this book written by Det. Shelby who was on the Sacramento EAR task force. It's self-published without even the benefit of an editor, that's how little interest there is. Shelby admits upfront that he didn't write it to entertain. He sticks to the facts and only to the facts of the case, which are chilling enough, but I can't help but wonder what Ann Rule would've done with it.
What I learned only adds to the mystery of how this creep has managed to evade capture. He would target a neighborhood first, at least two weeks before the rape. Residents would report prowling, burglarizing, and crank calling several homes leading up to the assault. He risked being caught exponentially with all his creepy activity. One person did report pictures missing, and a police search found a length of rope under her couch cushions. He was laying in supplies and she was on his to-do list for that night.
His list of crimes are textbook in escalation, from prowling, peeping, ransacking, burglary, rape, and homicide. It's doubtful he's been in prison, and his DNA has never surfaced elsewhere.
Although Shelby refuses to name who he thinks it might be, his chapter on Carlos was interesting. The fact that Carlos moved to a boat off the California coast and *still lives here* is creepy as hell. It's a real murder mystery.
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