Jane Carson sent us, survived to attack number five of the East Area rapists in October,

1976. She was in bed with her three-year-old son when they were attacked. Her attack had

come off the back of a month of hang-up phone calls. These calls are escalated and one

time when Jane told the caller to stop. The caller told her he was going to kill her

husband. Just prior to Jane's attack, she reported a break-in to police. She had found

a money footprints on the carpet under her son's window and upon further inspection of their

house, she realised an expensive jewelry had been stolen. Detectives who investigated

were not the officers working in the East Area rapist cases, so they reassured her at

seemed like the work of kids and the phone calls were probably just the prank. Jane had

links to the medical field, the armed forces, as well as the education system, three sections

of the community to come up again and again throughout the series.

I actually graduated from nurses training in North New Jersey in 1967 and a year later

moved down to Miami Beach where I was working in the emergency room and at that time I

decided I didn't really have any money to travel and see the world. So Vietnam war was

going on at the time and I thought I liked very much to join the military and help the

soldiers, treat the soldiers and see the world. So I joined the Air Force and I was sent

to Travis Air Force Base for two years where I met my husband who was a pilot and then

the two of us were transferred to the Philippines. I stayed there two years and he was sent to

Thailand at that time. I got pregnant and at that time in the military they did not allow

women to remain in the military. They were pregnant so I had to go home, come back home.

I had my son and I joined the Air Force Reserve and became a flight nurse flying air

magnissions back and forth from the Philippines to Hawaii back to the States carrying injured

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