num_pages: 352
description: Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars her babysitterthe kind handsome handyman at the motel where her mother workedtook her and her sister on adventures in his truck. But there was one thing she didnt know; their babysitter was a serial killer. Some of his victims were buriedin piecesright there in his garden in the woods. Though Tony Costas gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women including four in Massachusetts until decades later. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned Liza became obsessed with the case. Now she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal the chilling and unforgettable true story of a charming but brutal psychopath through the eyes of a young girl who once called him her friend.
language: English
title: The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
publisher: Atria Books