Monster Slayer Author:Robert Scott "Skinwalker" is the Navajo term for a demon in human form. But no mystical beast was as frightening as the true-life fiend who for four years spread fear throughout the deserts of the Shiprock, New Mexico area. The nightmare began on Thanksgiving 1996, when a feast of horror was served up to Joseph Fleming, 24, and Matthew Trecker, 18.... more » Both young men were stabbed and slashed to death in an alleged attempt to cover up a robbery. The reign of terror continued as a woman was subjected to a grotesque sexual assault - but somehow managed to escape with her life. Donald Tsosie, 40, wasn't so lucky. After leaving a local watering hole, he was savagely bludgeoned, stabbed, and left to die. On June 9, 2000, Betty Lee, 36, was stabbed and then slain with a sledgehammer after being stripped of her clothing. Justice finally arrived in the form of county detectives Bob Melton and Tyler Truby, whose investigation zeroed in on hulking, hate-ridden Robert "Bobby" Fry, a misfit with a taste for brutality. Aided by Navajo trackers, Melton and Truby conducted a sleepless two-and-a-half day manhunt to bag the killer before the trail went cold. Then, like the Hero Twins of local legend, they brought a monster's murderous rampage to an end.« less
The story of Bobby Fry and his killing spree.There is a plus to this book the way it is written makes it interesting not just for the criminal element but sheds light on American Indians and the way life is for them now.He was just you'r run of the mill sciopath but the slant the writer gives the story keeps it from being just another true crime book.
This is the story of Robert Fry who killed two young men that he knew and two Native Americans that he didn't know. The killings were senseless. He killed just to kill. He came from a middle class background.
I liked the way the author brought Native American history into the book.
Thank God for detectives like Bob Melton and Tyler Truby who never gave up on finding the victims killers.