A Crime in the Neighborhood
“For weeks, phone calls streamed into the sheriff’s office from people who had seen a balding man in a brown car. A psychic told police that they would find the man living in a trailer in Schenectady, New York. Several anonymous letters accused Vice President Spiro Agnew of being the murderer. A boy in Baltimore said a man approached him at a bus stop and offered him five dollars to get into his car. But it was a red car, this time, and the man had a beard. In New Jersey, a little girl vanished ...from her own front yard.
Based on a description furnished by the elderly woman with the pug, a composite drawing was posted in police stations across the country. One of the drawings also found its way to the bulletin board in the Spring Hill Mall; it was a pencil sketch, showing a round-faced, middle-aged man with unprepossessing features—unprepossessing enough that he could fit anyone’s idea of any kind of criminal. He looked like the sort of man who nowadays is easy to recognize as a child molester because we’ve been told so often that a child molester could be anybody, the man next door, even your own father.MoreLess
Based on a description furnished by the elderly woman with the pug, a composite drawing was posted in police stations across the country. One of the drawings also found its way to the bulletin board in the Spring Hill Mall; it was a pencil sketch, showing a round-faced, middle-aged man with unprepossessing features—unprepossessing enough that he could fit anyone’s idea of any kind of criminal. He looked like the sort of man who nowadays is easy to recognize as a child molester because we’ve been told so often that a child molester could be anybody, the man next door, even your own father.MoreLess
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