The Night Runner

FROM LOUISIANA'S MOST SHOCKING COLD CASE FILES COMES...Before you finish reading this, another woman will be sexually assaulted. "In the bedroom, he dropped his weight on the sleeping sixteen-year-old girl, slapped tape across her mouth before she awoke, and proceeded to rape her in the quiet stillness just before dawn. Spent, he climbed out a utility room window at the rear of the house before disappearing into the encroaching dawn. The girl ripped away the duct tape, screamed, and ran to her parents' room, where she sobbed out the grim newsA[a¬A]" Fact? Or fiction? Unfortunately, this excerpt from Lieutenant Karl Kretser's chilling new non-fiction saga of serial rape in Lafitte Parish is all too real. During the early morning hours of a humid Louisiana summer, a serial rapist held the town of Lafitte Parish hostage just as surely as if he'd pressed a knife to its throat. That is, until Lieutenant Karl Kretser stopped himA[a¬A].