This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and

tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,

enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features,

like huddles for quick check-ins, or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at

Slack.com slash DHQ.

We would like to thank the following people for their help and support in the research

of this series. East Area Raper Survivor, Jan Karsson, CNL, original night stalker victim

family members, Michelle Cruz and Debbie Domingo. Retired Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

detectives Richard Shelby and Carol Daly. Retired Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department

Detective Larry Crumpton. Contra Costa County DA Col case investigator Paul Hulles. And Orange

County DA investigator Erica Hutchcraft. This series deals with horrific sexual assault

offenses, and there's a lot of them. We feel it's a very important story to cover, but

they won't be suitable for all listeners, so please use your discretion. If you decide

to keep listening, we will be releasing a Mac with each episode to help as you go along

or for you to refer to afterwards. You'll find a link to the Mac in the show note on

our website, or you should be able to access the link from the show notes in your app.

In part four began, it was August 1978. Sergeant Jim Bevin sent Lieutenant Ray Rute from

the Sacramento Task Force held a special meeting with law enforcement agencies in Contra

Costa County. They believed that the East Area rapist was heading south, possibly to Southern

California, and they felt it would strike in Contra Costa County on a wait. They advised

Contra Costa law enforcement agencies to form a task force and work together, but there

...