Rebecca Everett
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Hi, this is Rebecca Everett.
I'm a reporter at NJ.com, part of the same network of advanced local news sites that worked with Wondery to bring you Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy, and Death County, PA.
Today we're bringing you the beginning of our new podcast, Someone's Hunting Us, a story about a serial killer you've never heard of and the women who took him down.
Stay tuned for the first 10 minutes of Someone's Hunting Us.
A silver BMW purrs across the Newark City line on a summer night in 2016.
Behind the wheel, his mind is clear.
He is part id, driven by his desires and unable or unwilling to resist them.
He's been planning this like he plans everything.
It's finally happening.
Death has come to Newark.
He's thought about the places where he can execute the plan, driven slowly past the abandoned homes, seen the broken locks that would let him slip inside to dispose of his victim.
In a neighborhood like Down Bottom, he certainly doesn't seem like the scariest thing around.
But there was no widespread panic, no scary headlines.
People go missing all the time in a city like Newark.
I'm an investigative crime reporter and a podcaster.
It's a story all tied up in race, poverty, a tough city, and the way the system and even society dismiss missing girls who don't look like Gabby Petito or Natalie Holloway with their pale skin and blue eyes.
I had just moved here to New Jersey when this case first broke, and the storyline was like, wow, they caught this serial killer in a few months.
Turns out that was kind of bullshit.