Growing Up in L.A. During the Reign of the Night Stalker

The summer of 1985 was the end of my innocence

Scott A. Weiss
Human Parts
Published in
13 min readJul 5, 2019

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Author’s note: this story now serves as the introduction in a book about the Night Stalker case, “Eyes Without a Face: The Night Stalker’s Reign of Terror”, available for purchase here.

By the mid 1980’s, the image of life for the millions of people who called LA’s…

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Scott A. Weiss
Human Parts

Author, freelance writer and self-employed recruiter. Bylines in the Daily Beast, Seattle Times, Classic Rock Magazine, LouderSound.