"Infierno! Another one dead! This means a trip to records to look for a special kind of killer—the ones with pedigrees in rape and assault." A housewife raped and murdered in her own kitchen, a streetwalker killed in a sleazy hotel room, a plundered corpse discovered in a back alley; one after another the victims ended up cold and quiet on the morgue trays. It was Sodom and Gomorrah all over again. It was L.A., the day the official report from the office of Homicide Lt. Luis Mendoza was rain with violence.