By the time he was 18 years old, Frank Garrison had dedicated his life to violent crime. His MO involved breaking into women's unoccupied cars, masked and wielding a knife, and lying in wait. One of his arrests inspired a scene in Dobbs' second novel VILE. In this episode, the arresting officer shares the facts that inspired the fiction, and Dobbs shares how that arrest impacted Garrison's would-be victim. Sadly, despite continued efforts by the officer and many others, the system released Garrison to do it again. Even after receiving a life sentence, Garrison walks among us.

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