He turned out to be a repeat sex offender with a record going back decades who was living with his parents in San Francisco and avoiding suspicion.ĭavid Joseph Carpenter – on parole after a second long prison term for crimes against women – wasn’t on California’s sex-offender registry or the state’s list of recently released prisoners given to Marin County investigators, due to a maddening series of bureaucratic snafus. At last, in large part because the boyfriend of one of his last murder victims escaped, the man believed to be the Trailside Killer was arrested. “This national resource is finally back for the people,” one Mill Valley woman hiking with her husband told the San Francisco Examiner.įor 21 months before that day in May 1981, the hiking trails of Marin County and Santa Cruz County had been terrorized by an unknown killer.
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