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TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer
TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer

Unlike other true crime stories, TRACKRS takes the reader through all the stages involved in the pursuit of a serial killer who sexually assaulted seven young women in Orange County, California in 1978 and 1979. He brutally murdered five, savagely attacked another who barely survived, and injured a pregnant woman so severely that it caused the death of her unborn child.


The narration provides a closeup, detailed description of an intricate murder investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies in 1996. The final results included not only the apprehension of the killer but the freeing of an innocent man, wrongly convicted and imprisoned for over sixteen years. Including transcripts of the defendant's recorded statements and courtroom testimony, all the "in the trenches" and raw details are recounted as seen through the eyes of the author, a deputy district attorney who initiated the investigation and followed the case through to the jury's final verdict.

533 pages

 

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Genre: 

  • Nonfiction

Age Level: 

  • Adult
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TRACKRS by Michael Jacobs is a sharp and detailed record of a string of brutal crimes committed in the late 70s and early 80s by a serial rapist and murderer. Jacobs served in the office of the district attorney for Orange County in California and pieced together evidence decades later on these cold cases to finally bring the perpetrator to justice. TRACKRS (Task Force Review Aimed at Catching Killers, Rapists, and Sex Offenders) was a team of people and a database of information designed to catch other serial criminals and to severely reduce the numbers of cold cases.

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