This book was a fascinating and terrifying read! I'd never heard of this serial-killing duo before, nor the hideous crimes that they committed. I shudder to imagine what their young (teenage) victims were subject to prior to their being murdered. The author did a great job of detailing the crimes as well as giving background information not only on these killers, but on a number of serial killers around the world that share some of the same traits. A frightening reminder that we cannot truly be safe and that it is not always obvious who to stay away from! I would have liked to have a little more information on the victims and their families. ( )

Growing up as a child in the 1950’s I can remember my mother keeping our front door wide open as well as the windows, our neighbor at the end of the hallway in the apartment building did the same thing; it was summertime and it sure helped to keep our apartments relatively cool with the breeze flowed from one apartment through the other apartment.

While we had one clothesline running from our living room to the fire escape on the other side of the building, we also used one of the clothesline on the roof. It was there the roof I saw women in their bathing suits laying on their plastic-webbing chaise lounge chairs, their transistor radios playing, alone without a care in the world for hours; without a single individual bothering them.

Everyone could hitch a ride without worrying if it would be safe, albeit we’d been warned not to. And the same had been true no matter where you’d been living in the United States. However, in California, this trust got shattered when Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris appeared on the scene and had brought with them their sadistic form of terrorism.

Circumstances had brought these individuals together in prison, and wound up creating a diabolical partnership, a partnership which planned all their murders down to the smallest detail to fulfill their degenerate dreams and have them become a reality.

Once again, the author, Jack Rosewood, has made sure to include and explore the psychological make-up of these killers, and factors that may have influenced their twisted minds. These two infamous serial murderers as you probably have surmised had been quite methodical and depraved sexually in carrying out five of the most appalling murders which involved an unbelievable level of torture anyone could remember.

This book once again proves you can never tell who is living around you and what they’re planning to do. For not having failed his readers and fans in writing another expose of a True Crime Murder, I’ve given Mr. Rosewood and this endeavor 5 STARS. ( )