It is a literal boogeyman taken from the nightmares of children across the globe. And when it decides to kill, there is nothing modern police methods can do to convict the actual suspect—because it wears the face of an innocent. In Stephen King’s The Outsider, it is known by the Spanish name of the boogeyman, El Cuco.

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