Haley, a serial rapist and murderer who was described by police as a “one man crime wave”, beat Laverne, who had just turned 56 a week before, to death with a 2x4 so hard, there were huge gashes left in her skull. Months later, he broke into Dolores’ apartment, raping and sodomizing her, before stealing $15 and leaving her strangled, half-naked body on the floor.