Our Guy — Stan Washburn

Published in an earlier version as Intent to Harm.

A serial rapist works a defined area in a college town. He prepares his entrances while his victims are absentï,¾unlocking windows or doors, positioning things to climb on silently, scouting out the locations of lights and phones so he can disconnect them later. Then he leaves, and returns when his victims are asleep. As his pattern and methods become clearer, the police develop an interception strategy, but they need luck as well as method, and it doesn't go quickly. This seriously scary story is based on the author's experiences working a similar rape series in his own neighborhood in Berkeley, California.