This book is based on the actual case of the East Area Rapist, later also known as the Original Night Stalker, a masked man who terrorized California communities for ten years; 1976 through 1986, and possibly to this day. Because I was not involved in the initial rape investigations, they are written from hundreds of reports, notes, memos, newspaper clippings, conversations and interviews with those who were involved. The crimes are factual. The crimes are real. While all characters and events have direct counterparts in the telling of the story, I have created some dialogue in the interest of readability. The cops in the initial rapes are not factual, their actions are. Their names and descriptions are completely fictitious. The names of the victims, witnesses and suspects are fictitious; the terror, the dialogue during the crimes, and the investigations are real. The cops involved in the cases after I was involved are real, their names and dialogue is factual, the investigations are real. The pain and terror may have diminished in the minds of the victims, I hope that the pain does not return. My intent is to tell the story without endangering the privacy or the dignity of the victims. They have suffered enough.

Sudden Terror

By Larry Crompton

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Copyright © 2010 Larry Crompton
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4520-5241-0

Contents

Prologue.....................................................................................................................................................................................iiiIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................................................vAcknowledgments..............................................................................................................................................................................xiiOne The First: Rancho Cordova Rape...........................................................................................................................................................2Two Contra Costa County......................................................................................................................................................................10Three Concord Rape...........................................................................................................................................................................14Four Concord Rape............................................................................................................................................................................23Five San Ramon Rape..........................................................................................................................................................................33Six San Jose Rape............................................................................................................................................................................41Seven Danville Rape..........................................................................................................................................................................44Eight CCC Task Force.........................................................................................................................................................................52Nine The Beginning; Sacramento...............................................................................................................................................................67Ten The First Rape...........................................................................................................................................................................69Eleven Carmichael Rape.......................................................................................................................................................................70Twelve Rancho Cordova Rape...................................................................................................................................................................81Thirteen Carmichael Rape.....................................................................................................................................................................92Fourteen Citrus Heights Rape, Rancho Cordova Rape............................................................................................................................................109Fifteen Carmichael Rape......................................................................................................................................................................137Sixteen Rancho Cordova Rape..................................................................................................................................................................147Seventeen Suspects...........................................................................................................................................................................156Eighteen Fair Oaks Rape......................................................................................................................................................................162Nineteen Sacramento Rape.....................................................................................................................................................................171Twenty Psychiatric Input.....................................................................................................................................................................175Twenty-one Carmichael Rape...................................................................................................................................................................181Twenty-two Rancho Cordova Rape...............................................................................................................................................................197Twenty-three Orangevale Rape, Carmichael Rape................................................................................................................................................206Twenty-four Sacramento Bee News..............................................................................................................................................................219Twenty-five Sacramento Rape..................................................................................................................................................................220Twenty-six Orangevale Rape...................................................................................................................................................................227Twenty-seven Prowlers........................................................................................................................................................................231Twenty-eight Citrus Heights Rape.............................................................................................................................................................234Twenty-nine Burglary Attempt.................................................................................................................................................................242Thirty Carmichael Rape, Death Threats........................................................................................................................................................245Thirty-one Sacramento SO Task Force..........................................................................................................................................................257Thirty-two Sacramento Rape...................................................................................................................................................................260Thirty-three Serial Rapists..................................................................................................................................................................267Thirty-four Stockton Rape....................................................................................................................................................................272Thirty-five Rancho Cordova Rape..............................................................................................................................................................278Thirty-six North Highlands Rape..............................................................................................................................................................281Thirty-seven Carmichael...