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Phantom Rapist: The True Story of Patrolman Milton Brookins.
A True Crime investigative chronicle of the life of serial rapist Patrolman Milton Brookins, a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer. Patrolman Brookins fashioned himself after Tony Curtis in the Boston Strangler film. He raped over 50 women in broad daylight in their apartments and homes in the fashionable West End and Central West End of the City of St. Louis. Milton left letters addressed to the police taunting them and daring them to catch him. The investigation was led by 2 country boy city cops whose prejudice got in the way of every investigation. The cops arrested several people for the rapes, and the victims positively identified them as the rapist, but the Phantom kept on raping. Several suspects spent weeks in jail, unjustly punished for a crime they did not commit. Washington University, the liberal college in St. Louis, plays large in this true story. This book chronicles historical law enforcement. It is a story that needed to be told.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 6, 2014
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September 28, 2015
Years ago when I was living in Chicago I remember my Mom telling me about these crimes on one of my parents' visits. It seems it was a local story. When I returned to St. Louis I don't remember anyone ever discussing it. Nowadays this would have been national news. I can picture Nancy Grace, Fox News and CNN handling this.
I was at the St. Louis County Library and somehow saw this on the shelves. For some reason I remember my Mom talking about this and wondered if this was the cop rapist who terrified St. Louis and left humiliating notes behind for his fellow officers. This cop was black and sought out white co-eds. Maybe this is why it is never discussed. I picked the book up and that is what it is about.
I had my Kindle with me so I looked it up on Goodreads and Amazon to see how many stars it had. No one had rated it anywhere, it must have just came out. You could also get it for free if you had KindleUnlimited, which I do, so I got it from Amazon.
The writing is rather "raw". I don't know if the author was trying to be truthful of the times, "gritty", or telling it like it is, but sometimes it doesn't seem to be PC. Don't take me wrong he places a lot of fault with the mostly white police force which according to him come off looking almost as reprehensible as the criminal. Least of all, making the Keystone cops look like an elite force next to the St. Louis Police Force. He is a retired St. Louis Police Officer.
At times I found it hard to read but I stuck with it and I found it hard to put down. Numerous times he went off-story to add St. Louis cop stories and history but I found them very interesting.
Anyway, this is the option of a Carondelet copper's hillbilly grand-daughter.
I was at the St. Louis County Library and somehow saw this on the shelves. For some reason I remember my Mom talking about this and wondered if this was the cop rapist who terrified St. Louis and left humiliating notes behind for his fellow officers. This cop was black and sought out white co-eds. Maybe this is why it is never discussed. I picked the book up and that is what it is about.
I had my Kindle with me so I looked it up on Goodreads and Amazon to see how many stars it had. No one had rated it anywhere, it must have just came out. You could also get it for free if you had KindleUnlimited, which I do, so I got it from Amazon.
The writing is rather "raw". I don't know if the author was trying to be truthful of the times, "gritty", or telling it like it is, but sometimes it doesn't seem to be PC. Don't take me wrong he places a lot of fault with the mostly white police force which according to him come off looking almost as reprehensible as the criminal. Least of all, making the Keystone cops look like an elite force next to the St. Louis Police Force. He is a retired St. Louis Police Officer.
At times I found it hard to read but I stuck with it and I found it hard to put down. Numerous times he went off-story to add St. Louis cop stories and history but I found them very interesting.
Anyway, this is the option of a Carondelet copper's hillbilly grand-daughter.
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