Cross-Country Evil

The first sentence in CROSS-COUNTRY EVIL reads: “It was just another murder.” Over 300 pages later, the last sentence is: “Janet Moore’s was not just another murder.” Packed between the first and last sentences are 18 years of a sometimes routine and sometimes harrowing police investigation in San Diego, California and Daytona Beach, Florida.
          
Many things happen during those years. A group of artists criticize and ridicule the police for not caring when a woman is murdered. When the San Diego Police do arrest a serial murderer of women, the artists criticize the cops for only properly investigating the deaths of respectable white women inside their homes.
          
The homicide sergeant's wife, who is also a police officer in another division, dies at an early age during the investigation causing additional stress on the sergeant. One of the other homicide detectives dies prematurely too. The rest of the homicide team either retires or is transferred. Prospects of solving the murder look bleak.

DNA comes of age during the investigation, and plays a part in the apprehension of the killer, but DNA is not the only part. Good, old-fashioned police work, surveillance, and cunning play an equally large role in bringing the rapist-killer to justice.

The book features exclusive interviews with the cops, prosecutor, defense attorney, family of the killer, and even a disturbing interview with the killer himself inside prison walls.