On November 16, 1984, police officers in San Bernadino, California, were alerted to the discovery of a woman's body at a local cemetery. Nude from the waist down, with her bra unfastened, the victim had been raped before she was shot in the chest and neck with a .357 magnum revolver. She was identified as 25-year-old Sonia Reed, last seen at a drug party the night of November 15. The following day, 42-year-old Ursula Houser was found dead in a San Bernadino alley, two miles from the Reed murder scene. Shot twice from behind with a .357, the victim had then been dragged 35 feet to concealment, where the gunman finished his assault by raping her corpse. Ballistics tests matched bullets from the two shootings, and investigators knew they had a serial killer on their hands. Eight days elapsed before the next attack, in Riverside. Daniel Osentkowski, age 11, was walking his 13-year-old cousin home from a neighborhood store when they were accosted by a black man in uniform. The stranger drew a pistol and grabbed Osentkowski's cousin, dragging the girl toward a van parked nearby. Daniel waded in on the attacker, kicking the man's shins, freeing his cousin before the gunman opened fire. Osentkowski was fatally wounded, but the gunman fled empty-handed, his would-be victim providing police with descriptions of both man and vehicle. That evening, 25-year-old Horace Kelly was stopped in a light green van, arrested when officers found a recently-fired .357 magnum in his vehicle. A native of New Jersey, employed for the past two years as a security guard, Kelly first denied everything, then confessed when his surviving victim made a positive I.D. Convicted of murder and attempted murder in the Osentkowski incident, Kelly was sentenced to death on May 21, 1986. Eight months later, he was convicted on two counts of murder in San Bernadino, receiving another death sentence .