The Babysitter: My Summers With A Serial Killer

  • Author: Liza Rodman
  • Narrator: Andi Arndt
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:00:53
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Synopsis

#1 of 10 Best True Crime Books of the Year by Marie Claire
Named Most Anticipated Crime Book of the Year by CrimeReads

​​A chilling true story—part memoir, part crime investigation—reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me, about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter—who was also a vicious serial killer.

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter—the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked—took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind and understanding adults in her life. Everyone thought he was just a “great guy.”

But there was one thing she didn’t know; their babysitter was a serial killer.

Some of his victims were buried—in pieces—right there, in his garden in the woods. Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later.

Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal the chilling and unforgettable true story of a charming but brutal psychopath through the eyes of a young girl who once called him her friend.

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  • 021 TheBabysitter Chapter16 Tony

    Duration: 05min
  • 022 TheBabysitter Chapter17 Liza

    Duration: 10min
  • 023 TheBabysitter Chapter18 Tony

    Duration: 11min
  • 024 TheBabysitter Chapter19 Liza

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    Duration: 10min
  • 027 TheBabysitter Chapter22 Liza

    Duration: 02min
  • 028 TheBabysitter Chapter23 Tony

    Duration: 15min
  • 029 TheBabysitter Chapter24 Liza

    Duration: 09min
  • 030 TheBabysitter Chapter25 Tony

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  • 031 TheBabysitter Chapter26 Liza

    Duration: 16min
  • 032 TheBabysitter Chapter27 Tony

    Duration: 04min
  • 033 TheBabysitter Chapter28 Liza

    Duration: 03min
  • 034 TheBabysitter Chapter29 Tony

    Duration: 03min
  • 035 TheBabysitter Chapter30 Liza

    Duration: 07min
  • 036 TheBabysitter Chapter31 Tony

    Duration: 03min
  • 037 TheBabysitter Chapter32 Liza

    Duration: 09min
  • 038 TheBabysitter Chapter33 Tony

    Duration: 10min
  • 039 TheBabysitter Chapter34 Liza

    Duration: 03min
  • 040 TheBabysitter Chapter35 Tony

    Duration: 07min
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