Episode Details

He stalked the forgotten streets of San Antonio's South Side long after his shift ended, hunting the most vulnerable women in the city's shadows and strangling five of them to death with his bare hands between 2012 and 2015, while the very institutions meant to protect them looked the other way and ruled their deaths undetermined. Johnny Joe Avalos, a man whose brain functioned at the level of an eight year old child yet whose predatory patience outlasted two and a half years of investigative blindness, now rots in a Texas maximum security prison under two concurrent life sentences without parole, carrying to his permanent confinement every secret the law could not fully extract and every name the world almost forgot to mourn.

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