james dusty rhodes rapes and kills cynthia mcewen in colorado in december 1982. he leaves town quickly with his wife and young daughter. he begins a series of attacks and sexual assaults. i m frustrated. my drug of choice at the time was sex. it became a drug with me. i decided to be blunt with you, i decided i m going to have sex, i m going to have it right now. by day, rhodes is a construction worker and family man. and soon his wife gives birth to their second daughter. but at night, he walks the streets of the beach-side party town, looking for victims. sometimes he would follow women, just to see them get afraid and not do anything. or sometimes he would just stare at women, to see if he could make them nervous, just to watch their nervous reaction. detective paul zetezleburger
23-year-old cynthia mcewen, a young mother who leaves behind a 5-year-old girl. by then, rhodes has made a clean getaway, skipping town with his wife and daughter, telling them it s time to move, to find a new job. the cold-blooded nature of the murder has all the hallmarks of being the work of a psychopath. there s a profound lack of empathy and remorse for victims if the offender is a psychopath. that means they can put it behind him. he leaves colorado and continues the assaults as he ultimately ends up in florida. the fatal assault is just the beginning. he is about to start a string of perverted attacks on unsuspecting women. were you a predator? i had obviously become one, yes.
second, started stabbing her. the woman is stabbed 15 times. and he leaves her to die and she does, in fact, die from her injuries. her body is not found for about a month. about a month. and i would find out years later when i was arrested that she didn t die from the stab wounds. she died from a fractured skull. that s when i remembered that her head hit the car. he was relieved to find out, which is really interesting, that she died not from the stab injuries, but from the trauma to her head. no, you grabbed her. you caused her to bump her head and then you stabbed her multiple times. so, it was his reluctance to want to take ownership of that case that i thought was really interesting. the victim lies in the cold snow for 28 days before she is found and identified as 23-year-old cynthia mcewen, a young mother who leaves behind a 5-year-old girl.
james dusty rhodes rapes and kills cynthia mcewen in colorado in december 1982. he leaves town quickly with his wife and young daughter. he begins a series of attacks and sexual assaults. i m frustrated. my drug of choice at the time was sex. it became a drug with me. to be blunt with you, i decided i m going to have sex, i m going to have it right now. by day, rhodes is a construction worker and family man. and soon his wife gives birth to their second daughter. but at night, he walks the streets of the beach-side party town, looking for victims. sometimes he would follow women, just to see them get afraid and not do anything. or sometimes he would just stare at women, to see if he could make them nervous, just to watch their nervous reaction. detective paul zetezleburger