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Obispo.
    By 1999 David Zaragoza was a seasoned parole officer and his specialty was sex offenders. And there were plenty of them in his region.
    San Luis Obispo, despite its beauty and small-town mentality,is located in a potentially volatile portion of the state of California. It is located within 140 miles of eleven security prisons. One of the most notorious facilities in the country, the California Men’s Colony (CMC), is located within one mile of Cuesta College and five miles from Cal Poly. CMC has housed numerous high-profile criminals within its walls, including the serial-killing duo of Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, who met there in the late 1970s and, upon their release,terrorized Southern California by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering teenage girls.
    Some of the other ten prisons include the California State prison—Corcoran. It is home to notorious 1960s cult figure Charles Manson, the leader of the Manson Family, which killed at least seven Los Angelinos in 1969 including eight-and-a-half-monthpregnant B-movie actress Sharon Tate; Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan; and Juan Corona, a migrant farm worker who killed and buried twenty-fivepeople in Yuba City, California.
    The other prisons nearby include the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, the Central California Women’s Facility, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison located in Corcoran, the North Kern State Prison, the Wasco State Prison, the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, the Correctional Training Facility of Soledad, the Salinas Valley State Prison, the Pleasant Valley State Prison, and Avenal State Prison.
    In addition to the multitude of correctional facilities, San Luis Obispo County also houses one of the state of California’slargest mental hospitals for criminals, Atascadero State Hospital. Before he went to prison, the aforementioned serial killer Roy Norris spent five years there after he raped and assaultedtwo women in San Diego. Atascadero doctors declared him “no further harm to others.” Three months later, he raped a young woman from Redondo Beach. Norris ended up in CMC, where he met Lawrence Bittaker.
    One of the misnomers of California is that it is a mecca for violent crime, especially rape. While it is true that the total numbers of rapes are high, the percentage of violent, forcible rapes of individuals is one of the better percentages in the United States. According to the U.S. Crime Index Rates, in the year 2000, there were 90,186 reported forcible rapes in the country. Of that total, 9,785 occurred in the state of California.That same year the state’s population reached almost 34 million; therefore, the rate of occurrence of a forcible rape in California in 2000 was 28.9 out of every 100,000 people. This placed California as the thirty-first best state in the Union. The nationwide average recorded that year stood at 32 per 100,000 people.
    Despite these surprising numbers, the individuals who committed these crimes are some of the most notorious in our country.
     
     
    David Zaragoza’s parole beat included some of these notoriouscriminal sex offenders. At the time of Aundria Crawford’s disappearance, his roster consisted of more than one hundred of California’s most reviled offenders.
    As he chewed over the Crawford information, one parolee’s name sprang to mind: Rex Krebs.
    Krebs, a prison parolee, lived deep in the woods of Davis Canyon, near Avila Beach, just south of San Luis Obispo. Zaragoza had been assigned the Krebs case back in 1997 after he was released from Soledad State Prison. Krebs had been incarcerated for rape charges in two cases that occurred ten years earlier in nearby Arroyo Grande and Oceano. Zaragoza remembered that the Krebs attacks involved break-insof women’s residences. There was a ring of familiarity to his modus operandi.
    Zaragoza decided to pay Krebs a visit.

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    March 17, 1999
Davis Canyon Road, Davis Canyon,