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Detective Richard Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to make a connection between a series

of rapes that began in communities in East Sacramento.

Law enforcement failed to stop him before he transformed into a Southern California

serial killer, committing some 53 rapes and 12 homicides from 1976 to 1986.

After Detective Shelby's retirement, 20 years after the case had gone cold, he was contacted

by his old employer, the Sacramento Sheriff's Department.

They had learned through DNA analysis that the East Area rapist and the original Night

Stalker were the same person, and they were reopening the investigation.

Retired West Coast Chief of Special Investigation for the Federal Government, Russ O.S.

contacted Shelby and asked him to write down everything he recalled.

Shelby was once again involved in the active investigation, his notes morphing into his

instrumental book, Hunting a Psychopath.

The East Area rapist, original Night Stalker investigation, the original investigator

speaks out, published in 2014.

In 2016, the FBI re-entered the investigation, utilizing advances in DNA technology, offering

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