Michelle and her editors agree to push her book deadline after being granted access to the Orange County Sheriffโs Departmentโs East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker (EAR/ONS) room. Poring over 37 boxes of files now occupying her daughterโs playroom, Michelle and her researcher Paul Haynes explore the case of the โVisalia Ransacker,โ the perpetrator of a string of burglaries in the early โ70s bearing striking similarities to EAR.