Eyes of a Monster, Ron Peterson, Jr.
Eyes of a Monster, Ron Peterson, Jr.
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Eyes of a Monster
A Detective's Relentless Pursuit of a Serial Killer

Author: Ron Peterson, Jr.

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2022

Synopsis

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia, apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved.

Three decades later, in 2011, next-generation detective Randy Mayer re-opened Olivia's dusty cold case file and began unraveling the mystery. Mayer located a reluctant witness who was a teenager back in 1981. She recalled a suspicious man lurking outside Olivia's apartment the morning of the murder and provided a detailed description of the man.

Detective Mayer then researched hundreds of old cases, hunting for a person who fit the description and used a similar MO. He identified a prime suspect, a Smithfield Foods employee, by then in his 60s, previously convicted of several brutal sexual assaults. Digging further, Mayer linked him to two other unsolved Hampton homicides. Was this man a serial killer?

Mayer enlisted the help of FBI agent Liza Ludovico and special prosecutor Phil Figura. Could the team uncover enough evidence to bring Olivia's murderer to justice? Could the witness from 1981 identify him? And would a jury convict in a cold case based entirely on circumstantial evidence?

About Ron Peterson, Jr.

Ron Peterson, Jr., is a bestselling author who has also been published in newspapers throughout Virginia and corporate publications throughout the country. His career includes work at the Virginian Pilot and Cox Media, where he was awarded the organization's "Outstanding Performance" award. Peterson's background also includes managing television advertising campaigns that have appeared on TV networks CNN, Discovery, Fox News, and ESPN. He is a board member of the Hampton Roads Sports Media Hall of Fame. Peterson first wrote about the Gina Hall case as a Radford University senior in 1987, majoring in Journalism/Communications and working as an editor for the student newspaper. In his research for Under the Trestle, he interviewed over 100 sources. A dynamic public speaker, Peterson has served as a guest lecturer at Radford University and given numerous presentations to audiences at Fortune 500 companies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jazz on December 17, 2021

Sadly Ron writes few books but, nevertheless, has the unique skill of maximising reader's interest in his chosen subject. In this case, like his other books, he chooses a relatively ordinary crime, but then exposes its uniqueness - in this case the heroic, successful efforts of a cold-case detective......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on November 28, 2023

3.5 stars--This is the story of how a bewildering cold case was solved decades after the fact. As with so many cold cases, particularly from the pre-DNA era, there was a maddening amount of sloppiness that dragged out the case and created plenty of red herrings. Perhaps most disgraceful on the law e......more

Goodreads review by Don on March 25, 2022

A true police procedural, and excellent. Most true crime writers follow what I've come to regard as the "Ann 'Rule'" (pun intended), a formulaic approach that goes like this: briefly describe crime scene; devote first third of book to victim hagiography; devote second third of book to demonizing the......more

Goodreads review by Jeanine on March 20, 2023

Extraordinarily well written, concise.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 13, 2023

True Crime is a field of study that has gained a wide following in the age of podcasts and self-produced streaming documentaries. The field has helped to bring new light to old, cold, and often unsolvable cases. Eyes of a Monster: A Cold Case Detective’s Relentless Hunt for a Serial Killer by Ron Pe......more

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