Great book about a reporter (Claudia Rowe) who begins a correspondence with convicted serial killer Kendall Francois. From Poughkeepsie, NY Francois murdered 8 women and hid the first 5 in his attic and the last 3 in his crawl space. He's also suspected of a ninth murder, that of Michelle Eason but he wouldn't confess to that because she's black and he didn't want members of his own race to look down on him for killing a black woman. Kendall Francois targeted petite caucasian women who were working as prostitutes to support their drug habits. I cried after reading the book because I used to have the same problems before I cleaned up when my husband and I got together and I felt so bad that these poor women died that way before they could get help and overcome their addictions. Everyone loves to label, and everyone looks down on prostitutes but I only have sympathy because I know that nobody WANTS to be a prostitute. It just happens. As you do more and more drugs you sink into addiction, develop a habit that gets worse every day and lose more and more of yourself as the addiction makes you do things you never thought that you would do and become a person you never thought that you would be. I feel so truly sorry for the families of the 8 Women strangled by Francois. Also the women he targeted were tiny petite women and Kendall Francois was a very large man at 6'4 and over 300lbs so those poor women must have been terrified. R.I.P. Wendy Meyers, Patricia Barone, Catherine Marsh, Kathleen Hurley, Mary Healey Giaccone, Sandra Jean French, Audrey Pugliese and Catina Newmaster. Also R.I.P. Michelle Eason. In 2014 Kendall Francois died while serving his life sentence. During the Sentencing hearing is was revealed that he had been diagnosed as HIV positive. It's too bad that Kendall Francois never got help with his anger management problems before he exploded and killed, 8 times. I have been super obsessed with true crime since I was 11 and I really enjoyed this book. Great Job, Claudia Rowe