The Golden State Killer's invisible victims: The men whose lives were shattered
Victor Hayes kept his face pressed into his mattress. The gunman promised to kill him if he heard the objects slip.He was 21, with the long thick hair and heavy mustache of a rocker, a souped-up Chevelle in the garage, and a custom chopper parked in the living room like something off the set of “Easy Rider.”Hayes protected his property with similar machismo — a pit bull in the backyard, guns in the house.
But the attacker had male victims as well — 29 men and boys bound up and threatened with death who were forced to witness the terror of their loved ones. These were victims that the police rarely mention and even they themselves and their families have trouble acknowledging.He was called by many names. Eventually, he would become one of California’s most deadly serial killers.
Victor Hayes is just one of two men willing to talk about their experiences as victims of the Golden State Killer. Bob and Gay Hardwick on the deck of their cabin in Arnold, Calif. Gay calls the woodland retreat “our happy place.” Hoodlums urinated on his lawn, so he grabbed his gun and he shot out the tire on their car. He ran into one of the troublemakers at the grocery and threw the kid against a plate glass window. Even in the controlled environment of court mediation, Hardwick dealt with the obnoxious client of another lawyer by pinning the man to the wall by his throat.
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