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Id like to thank the Shasta County Superior Court for help on this book, and my editor at Kensington, Michaela Hamilton, as well as my literary agent, Sharlene Martin.

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About the Author

Robert Scott, the author of eighteen previous Pinnacle true-crime books, has had numerous articles published in national magazines. Shattered Innocence, his account of the Jaycee Dugard case, was a national bestseller. His mystery novel, A Death in the Valley, is available from Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. A member of several national writers organizations, he lives in Northern California.

Robert Scott finds true-crime writing incredibly interesting. He comments: You have to be part journalist, part detective and part analytical writer for the true-crime market. His books have detailed the lives of killers and victims, police detectives and FBI agentsfrom California to Iowa, from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. Theyve depicted stories from a murderous male/female team in the High Sierras to a psychopathic killer on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Theyve also told the stories of victims, from an exotic dancer, to a beautiful but naive college girl, to a loving and vulnerable ranch wife.

According to Scott, The lives of the victims, and the detectives who brought them justice, are vitally important in these stories. I absolutely believe in a comment related to me by an assistant United States attorney, To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth.

Afterword

T welve years after Darrell Richs execution, the scenes of his crimes are now peaceful and serene. Not one person in a thousand crossing the Churn Creek Bridge on Hartnell Avenue in Redding would suspect that his reign of terror began here on June 13, 1978. The creek flows quietly beneath the bridge and the surrounding vegetation makes the creek banks look like a park.

On the other side of town, near the spot where Annette Edwards became Darrells first murder victim, its now the area of Reddings most famous landmark, the Sundial Bridge. Created by famed architect Santiago Calatrava, of Spain, it is a pedestrian and bicyclist bridge across the Sacramento River, which connects both sides of Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Its also billed as the worlds largest sundial because of its unique shape.

Even the Igo dump area has a new peaceful quality about it. Just up the road is the Northern California Veterans Cemetery. In the distance the surrounding mountains are often capped with snow in the winter and early spring. Within the cemeterys enclosure is buried Raymond Jacobs, one of the six United States Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima during the height of that fierce World War II battle.

Perhaps the most serene of all is the cemetery where Darrell Richs youngest victim, Annette Selix, is laid to rest. A heart-shaped stone marks her grave, with hummingbirds embossed upon the stone. The simple words on the grave marker proclaim: Annette Lynn SelixNovember 27, 1966August 14, 1978. Ours to love for a little while.

Its peaceful now in the Cottonwood Cemetery where Annette Selix
was laid to rest. ( Author photo )

Overhead, birds chirp in the trees and squirrels scamper about in a peaceful setting. It all seems very distant now from the days and nights when a shadowy assailant known as the Hilltop Rapist prowled the streets of Redding and its surrounding area, and no girl or young woman was safe.

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Chapter 1

A Time of Escapism

Redding, California, 1978

I n the summer of 1978, disco was king. There were still some rockers who bucked the trend: Queen, with We Are the Champions; Bob Seger, with Still the Same; Patti Smith, with Because the Night. The very top of the charts that year, however, was dominated by the Bee Gees. Their Stayin Alive and How Deep Is Your Love stayed at the top, week after week. And they werent alone. Other disco hits such as Boogie Oogie Oogie, If I Cant Have You and many others did just as well.

The same sense of escapism could be found at the movie theaters that year. There were some films such as The Deer Hunter and Coming Home, which dealt with the recent trauma of the Vietnam War, but the most popular movies were Grease, Superman, Animal House and Every Which Way But Loose.

If anything, people wanted to forget Vietnam, Watergate and long lines at the gas pumps. It was a time of new, escapist shows premiering on television such as Fantasy Island and Dallas. Up in Redding, the same sense of lets forget the past prevailed. You could skate at a local roller rink to the pounding sounds of disco music or play miniature golf at a new fun center in the area. Trying to forget the bad things in life was a common theme everywhere.

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