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Acknowledgments

Id like to thank my editor at Kensington, Michaela Hamilton, and my literary agent, Sharlene Martin. Id also like to thank the staff at the El Dorado County Superior Court and El Dorado County DAs Office.

Also by Robert Scott

Kill the Ones You Love
A Season of Madness*
And Then She Killed Him
The Last Time We Saw Her
Shattered Innocence
Rivers of Blood
Lust to Kill
Driven to Murder
Killer Dad
Dangerous Attraction
Deadfall
Like Father Like Son
Married to Murder
Monster Slayer
Rope Burns
Savage
Unholy Sacrifice
Kill or Be Killed
Most Wanted Killer
Blood Frenzy

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About the Author

Robert Scott, the author of nineteen previous Pinnacle true-crime books, has had numerous articles published in national magazines. Shattered Innocence was a national best-seller. His mystery novel, A Death in the Valley, is available from Kindle. A member of the Authors Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, 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.

The lives of the victims, and the detectives who brought them justice, are vitally important in these stories, Robert says. 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.

Robert Scotts website is www.robertscotttruecrime.com .

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Chapter 1

Romeo

Steven Colver. ( Mug shot )

El Dorado Hills, California, 2009

T he foothills of Californias Gold Rush country sweep down from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and intersect with the great Central Valley. Perched on the edge of that meeting of hills and flatlands, El Dorado Hills is a new community compared to the other towns in the area. Placerville, Old Hangtown, had begun along Placerville Creek when gold miners rushed into the area in 1848. In fact, gold had been discovered by James Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma only a few miles away. It was the spark that created the epic Gold Rush of 1849, when as one writer put it, the world rushed in.

El Dorado Hills was a developers dream of the mid-twentieth century, with spacious lots, modern homes and small horse properties for those who wanted them and could afford them. There was even a luxurious neighborhood where a person could fly their private plane onto a landing strip and park it right next to their home.

Nineteen-year-old Steven Colver was one of the residents of that area in 2009. Steven generally went by the name Boston, and he liked to hang out at the Habit coffee shop in El Dorado Hills. Steven was also into the goth lifestyle. He often wore black clothes and was addicted to Japanese anime and manga.

And like many a young man in his late teens, Steven had a younger girlfriend. In Stevens case, however, the girlfriend wasnt just a year or two younger. No, she was five years younger. His girlfriend was fourteen-year-old Tylar Witt, who also lived in the area, and she, too, was into the goth scene. Over time she began to think of Steven as her Romeo.

No two people seemed to describe Steven in the same way. To some he was polite, almost shy, intelligent and polite. To others he was headstrong, opinionated and bombastic. For the most part, however, people liked Steven, even his friends parents. One woman from the area who knew him was Jacqueline Epperson, the mother of Stevens friend Courtney. She said, He was reliable. As a parent I soon developed a trust in Steven and would allow my daughter to go with him, knowing he respected the rules.

Jacqueline added that Stevens work ethics went beyond self-motivated, productive and industrious. He loved to cook and enhance flavors in ice cream, even before he got his first job at an ice-cream parlor. Steven got permission from the manager to play with the combination of ice-cream flavors and invent his own. For a while there was new taste testing of his concoctions, several of which were added to the specialty menu.

Despite Stevens love of anime, with its many bloody scenes depicted within the pages, no one thought of Steven as being violent. He had no history of that at all. But during the last days of spring 2009, a seven-page story that mirrored his life and that of Tylar in El Dorado County was written. It was written in one of Stevens notebooks and Tylar had actually written the tale. The Killer and His Raven was fiction that interweaved fact and allegory. It paralleled the actual life Steven and his girlfriend were living that year.

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