Hi, this is Rebecca Everett. I'm a reporter at N.J.com, part of the same network of advanced local news sites that worked with Wondery to bring you

Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy, and Death County, PA. Today we're bringing you the beginning of our new podcast, Someone's Hunting Us, a story about a serial killer you've never heard of and the women who took him down.

Stay tuned for the first ten minutes of someone's hunting us.

A silver BMW purrs across the Newark City line on a summer night in 2016.

Behind the wheel, his mind is clear.

He is part id, driven by his desires and unable or unwilling to resist them.

But he isn't all impulse.

In the pocket of the driver's side door are the items he's collected for his kill kit.

Tight black clothes, sip ties, a body fluid cleanup kit.

There's also pepper spray and a small container of lighter fluid sloshing when the car dips into a pot hole.

The tools of his craft lovingly assembled for a night just like this one.

He's been planning this, like he plans everything.

It's finally happening.

Death has come to Newark.

The killer isn't from Newark, but he knows the city well,

including the area they call

down bottom, graffiti warehouses and impoverished people carrying their lives in bags, women in

need of a fix, a meal, who find themselves in this forgotten place. He imagines picking a girl like this, a girl who is unlikely to raise alarm bells

if she doesn't come home. How hard would anyone look for a girl like that, he thinks?

He's thought about the places where he can execute the plan, driven slowly past the abandoned homes,

seen the broken locks that would let him slip inside

to dispose of his victim.

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