The part that scraped against Cyra the hardest was that the world would fall in love with Lamprey if he was ever caught. Good-looking, educated, charming. She was aware of the fetishization of serial killers, of the internet’s obsession with them (but only the white ones), of the studios who would clamor to make a movie of his life. But they wouldn’t understand. They wouldn’t realize that up close and personal, there was nothing appealing about this man.

