DEAD AND BURIED.

Paperback. A shocking account of rape, torture, and murder on the California coast. On the night of November 12, 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California, attractive blonde college student Rachel Newhouse was walking home alone when suddenly a stranger appeared in front of her. He was wearing a grotesque, Halloween skull-face mask. Beating her unconscious with his fists, the attacker threw her into his pick-up truck, took her to his secluded canyon cabin and raped her - still wearing the mask. Newhouse was hog-tied and left to strangle to death. On March 11, 1999 in the same town, a stalker who had been shadowing Aundria Crawford, 20, broke into her apartment, pummeled her into insensibility, and carried her away in his truck to his canyon lair. There, she was raped, tortured, and murdered. As Californians reacted with panic and outrage to the 2 disappearances, parole officer David Zaragoza paid a routine visit to one of his charges, Rex Allan Krebs, 33, a violent serial rapist who'd served only 10yrs. of a 20yr. sentence in Soledad State Prison. After sending Krebs back to jail for violating his parole, Zaragoza discovered Crawford's 8 ball keychain on the premises. An intensive search of the canyon discovered the 2 victims' bodies buried in shallow graves on the paroled rapist's property. Confessing, alcoholic sex-and-slaughter addict Krebs conceded, "If I am not a monster, then what am I?" A jury answered his question in May 2001, sentencing him to death by lethal injection. Illus. with 16pp., of photographs. 383pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F.