In the final weeks of 1979, a psychic’s advice and a child’s watchful eye helped officials close in on the Stocking Mask Rapist in Staunton, Virginia.
Author: Jeff Schwaner, Staunton News Leader
A serial rapist stalked a vulnerable city. Police, media and a women’s college stayed silent.
A 1979 crime spree also serves as a racial inflection point in Staunton, Virginia. White women were the rapist’s victims. Black men were the police’s target.