Brad Hunter

Offerman was a surgeon.

And they figured out later that he had been scouting them.

Not specifically them, but looking for targets in that particular area.

So, you know, he murders them.

Then

Three months later, the killing is ramping up in Ventura County, which is one county down from Santa Barbara.

He, you know, kills Lyman and Charlene Smith.

Charlene Smith was bound and raped.

The view on that is that he had

seen her at a local mall where she worked and was attracted to her.

And that's really the first example of, you know, specifically targeting someone.

Sure.

I guess the first...

The first part of this, though, is the problem at the time.

And I'd written about this actually for a story on the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez.

But it was that Southern California, that area, not as bad in Northern California.

There is a slew of different police forces, and they are all interconnected by freeways.

The area is like completely freeway.

So you could theoretically snatch a person off the street in one.

killed them in another, and dumped them in a third.