In the summer of 1979 I was kidnapped after being carjacked on I-45 on my way home from my evening job at Foleys, in the Alameda Mall. It was one a.m. in the morning and as a young college student I was all too aware of the area's notorious reputation for serial killers but not in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would fall victim to the Killing Fields, as it was known!
Several years earlier, two friends had disappeared, Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw. Their bodies were found a year after their death. Rhonda's custodial parent was the incumbent Mayor Johnson and a close friend of my father. Although Michael Lloyd Self was incarcerated for the crime, the true perpetrator was Edward Bell, a surfing instructor. Let me make it clear, Michael Lloyd Self was no innocent. He was the neighborhood pedophile and all the kids knew it, including Rhonda. Both myself and my best friend had been accosted by him and we knew better than to be anywhere in his view.
Yes, I have many secrets to tell about these crimes, an insider's view, but it will literally take a book to tell the story. It is complicated and twisted. But, that is the goal of my book, to catch the killer I got away from and to bring the scum bag to justice. No, his name is not Self or Bell. This stranger is still out there, most likely married to a woman who puts up with his abuse. He is just another one of the serial killers trolling the area, but if I can expose him, it will be the satisfaction of a lifetime. I've been trying for 3 decades to get law enforcement to help me to no avail. Even the relatives of the many victims have turned a blind eye to my story. They say they care but their lack of action speaks louder than words.
I was just plain lucky to have escaped on foot from The Exterminator, as I now call him, after he tried to strangle me to death. His goal was to leave my body in the killing fields but I was able to outwit him. The police failed me also, they knew who he was and they let him go.
I'm posting this information now because you never know what can happen in the future. I had a heart attack two months ago and I'm not going to wait for the book to be finished to start the hunt. I've sat on this long enough. Due to the length of time The Exterminator held me hostage, I know quite a bit about him. I suspect he was the son of someone in law enforcement or city management. Coincidentally, the person who owned the Killing Fields property was in law enforcement. I know this because one day as we drove to the mall, passing the property, my mother told my sister and I about the man who once rented pony rides out to unsuspecting parents. I wonder how many older children wandered by themselves on their bikes back to the property to catch a glimpse of the horses... This was in 1971, not long after Renee and Sharon disappeared.
The police protected The Exterminator back then after I was rescued by a passerby in Clear Lake City and driven back to the crime scene where officers from five different divisions stood around and shot the breeze. I am sure they are still protecting him today. I'd say he is about 68 now. The Exterminator drove a red pickup truck with extermination hoses rolled up on reels in the back of his truck bed. He had a wife and a child. I won't say too much about his appearance because I have to have something to screen out false information people might give me. I imagine that infant would be about 36 years old these days. Do you think this young adult knows that their daddy was a serial killer?
If you know the answer to that million dollar question please feel free to make a comment here. Better yet, if you know someone who fits this description, let me know. I am older and wiser now and a whole lot tougher. He got away from me once and I don't plan on it happening again.
FOOTNOTE: Regarding Michael Lloyd Self. A Houston Chronicle reporter, Lisa Olsen, called him "brain-damaged" in a 2015 story, and in Appellate Court his mother said he was easily intimidated. This is what I have to say to the both of you. He had no problem unzipping his fly the day he accosted me at age 12 in a public place. His brain was fully functioning. Do you really think that the Webster Fire Department would have enlisted him as an active volunteer fireman if he was mentally deficient? He wasn't impaired, he was downright stupid and perverted.
