CHAPTER 14August proved a slow month for Agents Henry and Gold—no mass murders and only one confirmed serial "event" in their territory. The situation in Gary, Indiana, followed a textbook pattern: six young female runaways, novice prostitutes, met their end at the hands of a male assailant, almost assuredly sexually repressed, definitely Caucasian, with one or more abusive parents. The girls had all been stabbed repeatedly in a fit of rage, the likely result of impotence or a twisted religious vendetta. The killer dumped their bodies in trash bins mostly, but one girl had been found on a river bank and another in an abandoned warehouse. Besides this minor difference, the MO seemed identical. All murders took place in a fifteen month period.
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