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In the February 11th, 1983 edition of the Corpus Christi Coller Times, buried deep on page 25 in the newspaper's

living section.

An article features the story of a New York City Police Detective's mission to help keep women drivers

safe from men who prey on them at their most vulnerable when they're alone.

Lucille Baraskano, who the article's writer insists

titling miss as opposed to detective,

had almost been the victim of a man trying to run her off the road in order to do God knows what and eventually

made her way to the NYPD's Crime Prevention Unit.

Detective Burrskano was frequently sought after to give lectures about what women who were driving or returning to their cars alone could do to keep safe.

Collard Times Staff Rider Lori Sheen took the opportunity to write an accompanying article detailing the fact that big city crimes against women such as those seen in New York City were also happening in Corpus Christi, Texas, and she

came with receipts.

In late 1982, for example, in the parking lot of the Sunrise Mall, a man accosted a 23-year-old woman at

knife point and raped her.

Just a month before that, at Padre Stapels Mall in town, the articles writer said, a man had raped a 15 year old girl after luring her in by asking for her help jump-starting his car.

Murder was also becoming more a commonality in similar cases,

particularly as the city's homicide rate had been climbing

since the latter years of the previous decade.

Though Lori Sheen didn't use the case in her articles examples, the murder of 30-year-old

Estella Montoya in the early morning hours of March 5th, 1981, easily fit the reporter's narrative.

As it approached midnight on March 4th, as Stella was dropped off by a friend in the back lot of the

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