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This episode contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence that some listeners may find disturbing.

I remember the time it was 4.45 in the morning. I woke up to someone in my bed sticking a knife in my arm.

This is a story about dozens of Florida women who were brutally attacked in the security of their own homes in the early 1980s.

I think I must have been going back toward the kitchen because that's when I felt a knife at my throat.

I set up in bed and he left over that my roommate's bed and landed on top of me.

It's the stories of teachers and secretaries,

architects and accountants, nurses, students, models, and me up out of my bed, threatened that if I looked at him he would kill me.

He talked to me, kept calling me a beautiful lady, things like this.

It's the story of how they were stopped, then ambushed in the dark of

night in their bedrooms, their kitchens, their bathrooms, tied up, terrorized, and raped.

He hit me in the face, broke my lip.

I remember thinking, it's me who's going to be on the news for being murdered.

A story about a frantic manhunt for a callous predator who had women across the region afraid for their lives.

Close your windows, close your doors, that there's a rapist on the loose and he may

be back.

It's a story that spans four decades. It really haunted me after I retired.

It was the only big case that I left open.

One about how modern science can reveal what really happened in cases that have been

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