In fact, the people who were most at risk – in this case, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York City bars that served the community – were given no sustained or amplified warnings by either the authorities or the media, creating a safe space for the murderer to continue to wreak havoc. If this story had traced the common arc of serial killings, a wave of fear would have rippled through the communities most likely to suffer the next victim. Over the next few years, similar scenes of horror would emerge in the region, leaving scores of clues about the character of the victims as well as the origin and method of their deaths. The parts had been cut so cleanly that barely any blood could be found amid the sinew and bone. O n 10 July 1992, a grisly stash of body parts was found in trash bags by a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
