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The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate

by Robert Graysmith · 1990

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The author follows the life of serial killer David J. Carpenter, the Trailside Killer who terrorized northern California with a series of rape-murders beginning in 1979

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adult
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long · 496 pages

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