Michelle and her editors agree to push her book deadline after being granted access to the Orange County Sheriffs Departments East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker (EAR/ONS) room. Poring over 37 boxes of files now occupying her daughters playroom, Michelle and her researcher Paul Haynes explore the case of the Visalia Ransacker, the perpetrator of a string of burglaries in the early 70s bearing striking similarities to EAR.