MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE

<p><strong>In 1931 San Diego's idyllic image</strong> as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women fueling fear and vulnerability. <strong>MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE</strong> tells the tragic and true stories of three women murdered early that year: Virginia Brooks Louise Teuber and Hazel Bradshaw.  </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Local law enforcement</strong> out-of-town criminologists and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Statewide newspapers covered every angle and clue and sometimes played a role in the investigations. <strong>Yet the killer(s) were never identified and brought to justice.</strong>      </p><p><br></p><p><strong>In MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE</strong> award-winning author and historian Richard L. Carrico pieces fragments of evidence together for three cold cases shedding light on a dark chapter in San Diego's history.    </p><p><br></p><p><strong>More than ninety years after the murders</strong> Carrico emerges as an advocate for the victims meticulously reconstructing their stories. Immersed in dusty files long-forgotten oral histories and newly discovered investigation records his primary objective remains unwavering: to seek justice for the three young women. With no witnesses to the crimes the significance of circumstantial evidence and speculation both then and now became paramount.       </p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>And he may have even solved one of the murders.</strong></p><p><br></p>