THE UNMASKING Married to a Rapist

Hardback. Eddie Wyatt's arrest for a series of savage rapes in a small south Texas town stunned all those who knew him as a polite, religious, hard-working family man. But most devastated by the revelation was Wyatt's wife. It was beyond imagining that her husband, whom she had first met in Bible study class, was the serial rapist terrorising their town. This is the story of an ostensibly average American family discovering that the man they looked up to as the head of the household was instead a pathological criminal. Wyatt had lived two lives. Immediately after committing one six-hour-long kidnap-rape, he took his 2 children to a playground. He declined sex with his devoted wife, yet repeatedly broke into the homes of young women, tied and blindfolded them, and, at knifepoint, assaulted them. When the police finally tracked Eddie down and the press exposed his criminal life, his totally unsuspecting wife was shattered. Now, with access to Ronda Wyatt's diaries, the author tells how a trusting, self-blaming wife could live with a serial rapist for 7yrs. without recognising and knowing him. Then, using the rapist's frightening and explosive jailhouse confessions, he recounts Wyatt's own bizarre story of emotional detachment as he coolly watched himself become progressively more violent. Illus. 290pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.