The twelve-year rampage of ‘Missoula Mauler’ Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spree

To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the ‘Missoula Mauler,’ a psychopath in charge of a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic city between 1974 and 1986.

Nance’s only requirement for murder was ease of access—a preacher’s wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a married couple. Putting on a friendly façade, he could quickly gain his victims’ trust. After that, one September night, thirty-year-old Nance pressed his fortune, preying on the couple who resided to tell the tale.

A true tale with an unbelievable twist, compiled by former Wall structure Street Journal editor John Coston and complete with photos, To Wipe out and Get rid of Once again reveals the disturbing compulsions of the charming serial killer who fooled everyone he knew, stumped the authorities, terrified a community, and almost got aside with it.