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Retired Lieutenant Karl Kretser, East Baton Rouge
Parish Sheriff's Office, is the Lieutenant of Detectives who writes true crime novels based on the cases he investigated.
As an example, “Danced to Death” focuses on the 1985 discovery of a badly decomposed body of a nude woman. That
woman turned out to be 25-year-old Teresa Moore, who disappeared days before from a convenience store. The suspect sketch
hit the papers, and the case went cold. After many year, Karl Kretser took over the case and the hunt for a serial rapist
in the state of Louisiana.
According to the book description of
The Night Runner: The Desperate Hunt for a Serial Rapist in Louisiana, “Before you finish
reading this, another woman will be sexually assaulted. “In the bedroom, he dropped his weight on the sleeping sixteen-year-old
girl, slapped tape across her mouth before she awoke, and proceeded to rape her in the quiet stillness just before dawn. Spent,
he climbed out a utility room window at the rear of the house before disappearing into the encroaching dawn. The girl ripped
away the duct tape, screamed, and ran to her parents’ room, where she sobbed out the grim news…” Fact?
Or fiction? Unfortunately, this excerpt from Lieutenant Karl Kretser’s chilling new non-fiction saga of serial rape
in Lafitte Parish is all too real. During the early morning hours of a humid Louisiana summer, a serial rapist held the town
of Lafitte Parish hostage just as surely as if he’d pressed a knife to its throat. That is, until Lieutenant Karl Kretser
stopped him.”
According to the book description of
Danced To Death: The Desperate Hunt for a Serial Killer in Louisiana, “In the summer of 1985,
a woman named Teresa Moore disappeared from her job as a convenience store clerk in the middle of the night. Meanwhile, the
register was untouched and nothing in the store was found to be missing. Also, the victim's purse was nearby and had nothing
missing from it. In front of the store was a running hose that was used by the store to wash down the front area of debris.
Apparently, Teresa was abducted inside the store by an unknown assailant whose identity would baffle detectives for the next
ten years. This chilling dramatization of actual events sets the tone for an investigation into finding Teresa's merciless
killer. The twists and turns of this dramatic cold-case file can easily be compared to the ranks of today's best-selling
fiction. From a rookie detective who always regretted not solving his first big murder case to the latest technology worthy
of an episode of CSI, Danced to Death carries with it the emotional weight and shocking details of the best true crime has
to offer.”
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