This film is supposed to be about a heist – but the only thing we’re robbed of is its potential

Kelly Reichardt is known as the queen of understatement but things just don’t quite work in her latest film, The Mastermind.
USA Today

Months after 1979 assaults, a town was publicly informed there was a predator at large

This is Part 3 of "The Stocking Mask," a narrative series by Staunton News Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network. Want to start from the beginning? Follow this link. STAUNTON, Va. – Summer’s slow burn ...
USA Today

Police targeted Black men as Virginia town panicked about assaults by serial rapist

This is Part 5 of "The Stocking Mask," a narrative series by Staunton News Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network. Want to start from the beginning? Follow this link. STAUNTON, Va. – Kalorama Street ...
The News Leader

After a friend attacked, a young writer and his cigar-smoking landlady wonder what can be done

Tires on several cars were slashed in one neighborhood, a newspaper carrier was bitten by a dog on Grayson Avenue and the owners of five storage sheds in Waynesboro found them burgled. The Staunton ...
AZ Central

A suspect's confession: Police cornered serial rapist suspect as violent 1979 came to a close

The stocking mask rapist was in a jail cell for four days, but on Dec. 26, 1979, after being convicted of trespassing, he was released while awaiting trial for the peeping tom charge. On the night ...
AZ Central

After a friend was attacked, a writer wondered what to do about the Stocking Mask Rapist

This is Part 2 of "The Stocking Mask," a narrative series by Staunton News Leader, part of the USA TODAY Network. Want to start from the beginning? Follow this link. STAUNTON, Va. – Tires on several ...