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Richard Reed served as an Intelligence Analyst and
Korean Language interpreter in the U.S. Army, and has worked in the court systems or law enforcement since 1975. He worked
in the Criminal Investigation Division of the Evansville Police Department (Indiana) from 1987 until he was promoted to Sergeant
in 2003. While assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division of the Evansville Police Department he was
the lead investigator on the Joseph Brown case. He is currently the commander of the Internal Affairs Division, and is finishing
a Master’s Degree in Public Service Administration. Richard Reed is the co-author of Blood Trail.
According to the book description of Blood
Trail, “On October 29, 1997, hooker Andrea "Slick" Hendrix's, beaten, naked body was discovered
in a roadside ditch near Stewartsville, Indiana. With no leads for police to follow, the case eventually went cold, but it
wouldn't stay that way. In 2003, sadistic sexual predator Joseph W. Brown claimed to have strangled Hendrix with his favorite
murder weapon: a shoelace from a woman's size-8 shoe. Ginger Gasaway, 53, met Brown at a Gambler's Anonymous meeting.
She didn't know that when she took up with him, she was gambling with her life. On August 30, 2000, Brown murdered Gasaway
and scattered her body parts across three Indiana counties. For this grisly crime, he would be sentenced to life in prison
without parole. But it wouldn't be his first time behind bars...In 1977, Brown had been sentenced to life in prison for
kidnapping and armed robbery. In 1995, he was released despite the fact that he'd beaten a fellow inmate nearly to death.
Brown later confessed that during the next five years, he indulged in a seven-state rampage of torture and murder, his victims
female hitchhikers and prostitutes. Now, doing time in Wabash Valley Corrections Centre, Brown maintains that he murdered
no less than thirteen other women.
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