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Hi all,

I recently published my very first book, a true crime memoir, and I'm excited to share it with you. It's available for purchase on Amazon. The eBook is free with a Kindle Unlimited membership. Thanks for checking it out! - Helen


Cabbagehead: How Could I Have Married a Serial Rapist?


Cabbagehead is not a fairy tale.

When she saw the middle composite of the East Area Rapist, she gasped. Her eyes fixated on every detail of his familiar face. Under her breath she whispered, "Oh, what have you done?"

Over forty years ago a mad man roamed the streets. He was known first as the East Area Rapist, then the Original Night Stalker, and later the Golden State Killer. He held much of Northern and Southern California in the palm of his hand, frozen with fear, in the 1970s and 80s. He was thought to have committed over 120 burglaries, raped 50 women, and murdered 13 people. Then, he was still.

In 2016, the FBI launched a nationwide campaign to catch this predator. They shared three composite images on every news station and all over the internet. In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was identified through the DNA he left at crime scenes in Southern California. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and was required to admit to all of the rapes and other uncharged crimes as part of his plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

But the investigators were only half right. There was another blue-eyed monster who roamed the Sacramento area as the East Area Rapist. Yes, there were two. They captured one, but the other one slipped away.

How does an innocent child's life evolve into a life with a serial rapist? Easier than one might imagine. Meet Cabbagehead .

"Cabbagehead falls under the description of a 'page turner.'

Helen LaRoe tells a story the mythologist, Joseph Campbell, would recognize: the classical tale of The Hero's Journey. If ever there was a Heroine's Journey, this is it.

Cabbagehead is a compelling life story everyone needs to know. If you have followed the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer case, you won't want to pass up reading this riveting memoir."

- Retired Sacramento County Sheriff's Detective Richard Shelby and author of Hunting a Psychopath

Thanks for alerting us to the existence of this memoir; it is clearly right up our alley. It is going on our jj deangelo shelf and I'm also going to post it at the memoirs group I belong to...

Fishface wrote: "Thanks for alerting us to the existence of this memoir; it is clearly right up our alley. It is going on our jj deangelo shelf and I'm also going to post it at the memoirs group I belong to..."

Thanks, Fishface! I would love to hear your thoughts on Cabbagehead after you finish it.

I wish I knew where all our members are lately. I have no idea how many people are seeing these posts...

I am seeing them.

Love your posts Fishface. Also respect your opinions.

Liz wrote: "Love your posts Fishface. Also respect your opinions."

I agree.

Completely agree!

I'm so glad to see this many people here at all!!!

Fishface wrote: "I'm so glad to see this many people here at all!!!"

Me too!