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.

Chapters

  • 041 TheBabysitter Chapter36 Liza

    Duration: 08min
  • 042 TheBabysitter Chapter37 Tony

    Duration: 15min
  • 043 TheBabysitter Chapter38 Liza

    Duration: 01min
  • 044 TheBabysitter Chapter39 Tony

    Duration: 08min
  • 045 TheBabysitter Chapter40 Tony

    Duration: 10min
  • 046 TheBabysitter Chapter41 Liza

    Duration: 04min
  • 047 TheBabysitter Chapter42 Missing

    Duration: 07min
  • 048 TheBabysitter Chapter43 Tony

    Duration: 13min
  • 049 TheBabysitter Chapter44 Liza

    Duration: 02min
  • 050 TheBabysitter Chapter45 TheFirstBody

    Duration: 14min
  • 051 TheBabysitter Chapter46 Tony

    Duration: 06min
  • 052 TheBabysitter Chapter47 Liza

    Duration: 05min
  • 053 TheBabysitter Chapter48 Tony

    Duration: 11min
  • 054 TheBabysitter Chapter49 Tony

    Duration: 12min
  • 055 TheBabysitter Chapter50 Liza

    Duration: 04min
  • 056 TheBabysitter Chapter51 Tony

    Duration: 08min
  • 057 TheBabysitter Chapter52 Tony

    Duration: 06min
  • 058 TheBabysitter Chapter53 Liza

    Duration: 05min
  • 059 TheBabysitter Chapter54 Tony

    Duration: 07min
  • 060 TheBabysitter Chapter55 Liza

    Duration: 07min
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