Journey into Darkness (59 page)

Stuart Knowlton, convicted killer of Cassandra Hansen. (St. Paul, Minnesota, Police Department photo)

Thirteen-year-old Shawn Moore, whom my colleague Special Agent Jim Harrington described as “a kid who had everything going for him.” On Labor Day Weekend, 1985, Shawn was abducted near a convenience store close to Brighton, Michigan, by Ronald Bailey, who killed him on Sunday at a friend’s hunting cabin.

Ronald Lloyd Bailey, he convicted killer of Shawn Moore, was a young man with a long, bad record before he even committed that crime. (Livingston County, Michigan, Sheriff’s Department photo)

Ronald Bailey’s recently purchased silver Jeep Renegade, which help lead to his arrest. (Michigan State Police photo)

Stephen and Suzanne Collins, already best of friends, on their way to the school bus while their father, Jack, was stationed in Greece in 1972. (Photo by Trudy Collins)

Suzanne Collins in her uniform for the Robert E. Lee High School Lancers softball team. (Photo by Trudy Collins)

Suzanne Collins proudly standing in front of her regulation-made bunk bed at Parris Island, August 1984. Her parents saw this as quite a contrast to the way she’d kept her room at home. (Photo by Trudy Collins)

Lance Corporal Suzanne M. Collins’s red Marine Corps T-shirt. Sheriff’s deputies found it lying in the grass near her body in Edmund Orgill Park in Millington, Tennessee, on the morning of July 12, 1985. (Shelby County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Department photo)

The authors with Jack and Trudy Collins at their home in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Photo by Carolyn C. Olshaker)

Our work can be pretty grim, so occasionally you have to make an effort to lighten up. In the midst of my intense travels profiling cases in the 1980s, my colleagues at Quantico made up this “official” FBI Wanted poster inviting fellow personnel to a cocktail party in my honor.

Amber Hagerman with her brother at what turned out to be the last Christmas of her life. (Photo courtesy of Richard Hagerman)

Nine year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon, January 13, 1996, in Arlington, Texas. Her nude body was found the following Wendnesday. She had been sexually assauhed and her throat was cut. So far, the monster who killed her has not been caught