On warm summer nights, many residents in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys of Los Angeles enjoyed sleeping with windows and doors open for fresh air. No more. Since March, a killer has been creeping into those open houses, shooting, stabbing and beating victims chosen apparently at random. The "Night Stalker," as the newspapers have named him, has killed at least 14 people. Homeowners in once sleepy communities are buying door bolts, locking windows and organizing neighborhood watch groups. The killer is believed to be a man with curly hair between the ages of 30 and 35. Police have been...
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