Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist
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Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist Overview
* Finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime Book * Deliberate Indifference was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1993. For five years, respected Dallas businessman Gilbert Escobedo disguised himself with a ski mask and may have raped as many as one hundred women. Now Howard Swindle, an award-winning Dallas Morning News editor, offers a taut and sensitive account of Escobedo's crimes and the police investigation that led to his arrest. Candid and heartwrenching insights from many of Escobedo's victims reinforce this compelling portrait of a power rapist, an account that uncovers the real faces behind the act and the aftermath of this most heinous of crimes. Written with the same fast-paced narrative that brought wide acclaim to Deliberate Indifference, Trespasses is illuminated by the latest research on sex crimes as well as two years of conversations with Escobedo in a Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.
Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist Feature
- Gilbert Escobedo confessed to 48 rapes in Dallas between 1985 and 1990, although authorities conjecture that he may have committed twice that number.
Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist Specifications
Howard Swindle is a writer who feels strongly about oppression. In his award-winning previous book, Deliberate Indifference, he wrote about a crime of racial injustice. In Trespasses, he turns the same keen attention to the crime of rape, which he calls "the betrayal of intimacy ... an assault on the most personal, inviolate core of our souls." This book focuses on a suspenseful story about just one man--the "Ski Mask Rapist" whose long spree was part of why Dallas in the 80s had a per capita rape incidence that was twice that of New York City--but Swindle explores his subject with a broad-based perspective. He quotes and addresses the arguments of Susan Brownmiller, Andrea Dworkin, and other feminist writers on the subject of rape; and he educates the reader about different types of rapists and their motivations. Trespasses is nominated for a 1997 Edgar Award.
