MADNESS, SEX, SERIAL KILLER: A Disturbing Collection of True Crime Cases by Two Masters of the Genre by Phelps M. William & Olsen Gregg

Author:Phelps, M. William & Olsen, Gregg [Phelps, M. William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crime Rant Books
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

TRACY ANN ROBERTS, JUST TWENTY-THREE, grew up in New Castle, Delaware, a quick surf south of Atlantic City. Tracy’s body was found in the drainage ditch not far from Kim Raffo’s, facing the same way and posed (a word I use cautiously) in the same peculiar positioning, according to several reports. Tracy had lived in Philadelphia for a time before heading to Atlantic City to work the strip club circuit. Her story was a familiar one: Tracy got herself involved in drugs and turned to the Atlantic City streets to work for money to feed her habit. Friends and fellow working girls called Tracy “the young, pretty one.” She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming (crack) houses as Kim Raffo, near the Resorts Casino close to South Tennessee Avenue and Pacific. It’s an area known to locals as “The Track.” Kim and Tracy were friends.

Authorities found Tracy wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and a black bra, according to one report. A source told me she had been clothed from the waist down, except for her shoes and socks. Tracy was said to have been dead for as little as a couple of days or as long as a week, but we just don’t know for sure. Kim Raffo’s body was found by those two girls walking along the service road parallel to the drainage ditch—and that led to the discovery of Tracy’s body, as well as the other victims. It has always been assumed that Tracy and the others were there all along, but their killer (or killers) could have kept the bodies elsewhere and dumped them when he wanted to (or at the same time he dumped Kim).

In looking for patterns and new evidence in a serial murder case, and information that will point you in the direction of a viable suspect (as opposed to some person of interest that everyone is hot on), you cannot assume anything, especially the obvious. Serial killers want you to think in that frame of mind. They want you to believe the lies they tell with a crime scene. But crime scenes left behind by serials—a majority of them, anyway—are almost always staged to some extent. That is, unless the location represents, out of necessity, a dump-and-run (or kill-and-run) scenario.

This particular location outside Atlantic City was no dump-and-run site. It is tucked away in back of a strip of seedy motels and, if you’re not from the area and don’t know it’s there, you’d be hard-pressed to simply come upon it and choose it as a recurring dump site. Locals know of this place. Area working men and women know about it, too. Cops are familiar with it.

This killer knew the area very well, no doubt about it. The dump site, in relation to the Atlantic City area and the lifestyles of the victims, says something about who this animal is. And why he chose these types of victims, and why he chose a dumpsite near water.

“In the shadow of

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