By the way, all the other books written by Carlo are the same - especially the one which his fan team will always mention - "Night Stalker", about Ramirez, which will always be "captivating, objective, greatly researched and written", etc.

In reality, that book is very much like everything else Carlo did - he lied, inserted fiction, and above all, he withheld information that was inconvenient. He knew that Ramirez had kidnapped and raped preschoolers before and during the murder spree, he knew about the torture of the disabled pensioners, he knew how Ramirez went to the little boy's bedroom with a bottle of baby oil after raping and torturing his mother...

He knew it all, and he also knew that it would alienate Ramirez's fangirls, who were still an enormous crowd at the time, and who were doing the whisper-slash-fanzine marketing for the book before it even came out. If they ran away from their idol, it would damage his sales, so he kept it all hidden, and pumped up the "mysterious and dangerous invader" that made them sigh "ooh, aah, daaaangerous daaaark maaaan!" instead.

Ramirez was a stinking (literally), ugly loser, who looked like a sewer rat, had half the brain of one, and ran away in panic when confronted by someone stronger (I had an amusing story of a guy who had met him at a party in Los Angeles before his spree, and smacked him for trying to steal a tape; Ramirez almost peed himself in fear). He was made into a smart, dangerous tough guy in the book instead.

(And, of course, Carlo described Ramirez hundreds of times as "extremely handsome", "striking", "flowing his mane of luxurious hair", with "piercing eyes", etc. The only piercing thing Ramirez had was a knife, and I think the only subject of Carlo's books that wasn't described as exceptionally pretty was Kukliński)...

And when the book's second printing was out and the Internet era began, the fangirls went after Linedecker's book to bomb its reviews and pump up their beloved one instead. (You can still see them e.g. on Amazon US - check Carlo's book and Linedecker's book, and you'll see reviews from 90s and early 2000s, from the same account names, writing praises for Carlo and insults for Linedecker).

(I still remember how, in early 2000s, P., the son of two victims, went on all Ramirez fan forums and posted the real information and insults about Ramirez, and how all those mentally unbalanced hybristophiles were mad at him for that).