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- Authors: Richard Chizmar
- Language: English
- Genre: Serial Killer Thrillers
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foreword
James Renner
I write about crime, and sometimes I chase serial killers across the country. I cut
my teeth at the Free Times in Cleveland, where I worked as an investigative
journalist at a time when young women were disappearing on the west side of
town. We all knew there was a murderer in our midst, but nobody could find
him. I spent a month researching the cases of victims Amanda Berry and Gina
DeJesus. One of Amanda’s ex-boyfriends looked good for it, but the police had no
evidence. Then one day, in 2013, I was watching my son tumble around in his
gymnastics class when I got a text from an old source in the Cleveland Police
Department—Amanda and Gina just walked out of a house on the West Side. And a
third woman is here. By the end of the day, Ariel Castro was in custody. When I
went back through my notes, Castro’s name was there. His daughter was the last
person with Gina DeJesus before she was abducted. My editor had asked me not
to interview her because, at the time, she was a minor. I will always wonder what
might have happened if I never listened to him.
The summer after they caught Castro, I took my family to Ocean City,
Maryland, on vacation. I needed a break from it all and intended to get caught up
on some Stephen King and John Irving novels while my kids built sandcastles on
the beach. The condo had this old dining room table with an annoying wobble,
and on the second day I was motivated to fix it. I surveyed the owner’s
bookshelves for the right-sized paperback, and in that way happened across a sunfaded copy of Richard Chizmar’s true-crime book, Chasing the Boogeyman. I
started leafing through it and quickly forgot about the table. By dinner, I was
obsessed with the details revealed in the book and the horrible unsolved murders
that rocked the town of Edgewood in 1988. By midnight, I’d finished it.
I took Chasing the Boogeyman with me when we left. I guess that’s stealing, but
I reasoned this was a better fate for the book than holding up the corner of a
dining room table. When I got home, I puttered around the internet for a bit to
find out if they’d ever caught the guy, but all I could find were old articles on
LexisNexis. No updates for the last ten years. I was surprised, though, to find that
Chizmar had become a publisher himself, with some Stephen King titles, no less. I
even had an old issue of his magazine, Cemetery Dance, from back in college, and
it had his contact info listed on the editorial page.
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