Summary

McNamara visits Fred Ray, a former detective with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, to speak about his interrogation of troubled teenagers who were prowlers and peepers in the area. He says that he had a way of making them speak, by making them think that he kind of agreed with them and enjoyed what they were telling him (257). He adds that he might have interviewed the EAR during the time he interviewed prowlers. McNamara explains to him that she is interested in the minds of young prowlers after she visited Goleta, the city near Santa Barbara, where the EAR attached three times between 1979 and 1981. She speculates that he might have been a local in the area, since he attacked in relatively secluded homes that would be known to a local. Ray complains that the deputies let him slip away after...