AS FAR AS FITTING THE STEREOTYPES bestowed to infamous chain-link
murderers that exist outside African American culture, there was a
time when black serial killers were recognized, to some extent,
implausible by purported experts who probably cared not to explore
the primary nature of the slayers' transgressions. Nevertheless,
the obscured story of handyman Morris Solomon Jr. has to be one of
the most interesting tales untold as it is one of the most horrific
yarns in the annals of American crime. The handyman's misdeeds,
when briefly brought to the public's attention, virtually reminded
society that killers continuously come in all colors, shapes, and
sizes. Solomon was convicted of killing six young women, ages 16 to
29, in the Sacramento, California, neighborhood of Oak Park between
1986 and 1987. The handyman's grisly method of murder left
detectives and medical examiners mystified. The identification
process of his victims' remains was distinctly a laborious
assignment, too. The victims -drug addicts, prostitutes, and devout
mothers - were stuffed in closets, hidden under debris, and
arguably, one court judge strongly considers, buried alive. In
retrospect, the handyman was first accused of murder in the
mid-1970s; and authorities suspect him to be linked to four more
homicides in Sacramento. Solomon - once declared as a "Mentally
Disordered Sex Offender"- is now on death row in Northern
California's San Quentin State Prison awaiting execution. The
unassuming handyman's 18-year reign of terror includes a record of
sexual assaults, attempted kidnappings, and separate despicable sex
acts performed strictly for humiliation. In The Homicidal Handyman
of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr., author and journalist Tony Ray
Harvey recounts the black serial killer's dysfunctional upbringing,
atrocious crimes, and hardly noticeable court trial. Harvey's book
also provides explicit crime scene photos, the history of the death
penalty system in the state of California, the city of Sacramento's
drug culture in the mid-1980s, and exclusive prison interviews of
the mild-mannered handyman.
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