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The babysitter, my summers with a serial killer, Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

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The babysitter

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Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

my summers with a serial killer

"A chilling true story-part memoir, part crime investigation-reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me, about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter-who was also a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked-took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his "secret garden" in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind and understanding adults in her life. Everyone thought he was just a "great guy." But there was one thing she didn't know; their babysitter was a serial killer. Some of his victims were buried-in pieces-right there, in his garden in the woods. Though Tony Costa's gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal the chilling and unforgettable true story of a charming but brutal psychopath through the eyes of a young girl who once called him her friend"--, Provided by publisher

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- A Note on Our Process -- Prologue: Liza's Nightmare -- Chapter 1: Tony -- Chapter 2: Liza -- Chapter 3: Tony -- Chapter 4: Liza -- Chapter 5: Tony -- Chapter 6: Liza -- Chapter 7: Tony -- Chapter 8: Liza -- Chapter 9: Tony -- Chapter 10: Liza -- Chapter 11: Tony -- Chapter 12: Liza -- Chapter 13: Liza -- Chapter 14: The Province Lands -- Chapter 15: Tony -- Chapter 16: Tony -- Chapter 17: Liza -- Chapter 18: Tony -- Chapter 19: Liza -- Chapter 20: Tony -- Chapter 21: Tony -- Chapter 22: Liza -- Chapter 23: Tony -- Chapter 24: LizaChapter 25: Tony -- Chapter 26: Liza -- Chapter 27: Tony -- Chapter 28: Liza -- Chapter 29: Tony -- Chapter 30: Liza -- Chapter 31: Tony -- Chapter 32: Liza -- Chapter 33: Tony -- Chapter 34: Liza -- Chapter 35: Tony -- Chapter 36: Liza -- Chapter 37: Tony -- Chapter 38: Liza -- Chapter 39: Tony -- Chapter 40: Tony -- Chapter 41: Liza -- Chapter 42: Missing -- Chapter 43: Tony -- Chapter 44: Liza -- Chapter 45: The First Body -- Chapter 46: Tony -- Chapter 47: Liza -- Chapter 48: Tony -- Chapter 49: Tony -- Chapter 50: Liza -- Chapter 51: Tony -- Chapter 52: Tony -- Chapter 53: LizaChapter 54: Tony -- Chapter 55: Liza -- Chapter 56: Tony -- Chapter 57: Liza -- Chapter 58: Tony -- Chapter 59: Liza -- Chapter 60: Tony -- Chapter 61: Tony -- Chapter 62: Liza -- Chapter 63: Tony -- Chapter 64: Liza -- Epilogue -- Photographs -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Notes -- Bibliography and Additional Reading -- Index -- Copyright

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