THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN

My book “PREDATOR” is slowly advancing. I would like it to be further along than it is but…. Racing along is not appropriate in this type of book.

It is about a serial rapist and murderer. He is a brutal man. Extremely violent. His prey? Woman 50 and up, single, living alone.

I met the man in a jail-house interview. He has to be the nightmare that should never have been. His first rape that we know of was when he was age fourteen in 1986. His target? A forty year old woman customer in a drive-thru car wash. He drug his victim into the businesses bathroom where he robbed and raped her. Had she not gotten away from him following the assault, then most likely she would have been his first murder victim. He stated to her at one point, “I gotta figure out what to do with you.” Then he tried to get her into the trunk of her car which had the engine running. She managed to break free and get help from a business across the street from where the rape occurred.

So, reading court records, interviewing people, and putting it altogether is not an easy task.