The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted,
raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home.
In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go
missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women's
nomadic lifestyles, which many people condemned, few in the town noticed
they were gone besides their families and Lieutenant Bill Siegrist, who
suspected that a serial killer was behind the disappearances. Local
prostitutes described a strange man lurking around, leading Siegrist to
Kendall Francois, an overweight, slovenly middle school hall monitor
nicknamed Stinky. Police brought in Francois for a lie detector test,
which he passed, and they were forced to release him. Area women
continued to disappear.
In a shocking twist of fate, Francois was finally arrested when a woman
he had raped managed to escape from his house and ran into a roadblock
set up by Siegrist. She led the police back to Francois's home, and the
hall monitor soon gave a full confession and cut a deal with the
prosecution. By then, cops in Tyvek suits had already found eight bodies
concealed in the attic and crawl space of Francois's house of horrors.
To this day, one victim is still missing.
From the author of numerous true crime books, including Lobster Boy
and Deacon of Death, this is the frightening story of a brutal
murderer whose neighbors never suspected what was going on behind his
front door.
