By trade I am a ransacker of ancient tombs, where the risks are great and rewards few.

To date, the Visalia Ransacker has not been identified or apprehended.

Now the fact was that Melchisedech was an invader and ransacker and pirate of minds.

In most of his crimes, the Visalia Ransacker would break into a single-family home and tear apart the interior while stealing only small items.

Neither the Ransacker nor the East Area Rapist ever took valuable items from the homes they burglarized.

Wylie also maintains a blog called Idea Ransacker at http://thewylieblog.blogspot.com which he updates regularly with relevant news and commentary.

I have been a pirate and ransacker of minds, and I won't be intimidated just because his mind is that of an evil giant."

The Visalia Ransacker is believed to have been responsible for the murder of journalism professor Claude Snelling.

Within the law enforcement community, it is generally believed that the Visalia Ransacker's crime spree began in April 1974 and ended in late 1975.

On this date, a man who is strongly believed to be the Visalia Ransacker broke into the home of Claude Snelling.

Both the Visalia Ransacker and the East Area Rapist were described as physically fit white males in their twenties.

The Visalia Ransacker is an unidentified serial burglar who operated in Visalia, California in the mid-1970s.

Based on all of the evidence, it is strongly suspected that the Visalia Ransacker and the East Area Rapist are one and the same.

Following his altercation with the shooter, Detective McGowan resumed his search for the Visalia Ransacker.

The Visalia Ransacker was the name given to the perpetrator of a bizarre burglary spree with several similarities to the later East Area Rapist break-ins in Sacramento.

He says, "I throw myself down in the deepest submission before every systematic ransacker: This [book] is not the system; it has not the least thing to do with the system.

In terms of modus operandi, both the Visalia Ransacker and the East Area Rapist pulled hot prowl burglaries on single-family residences in the middle of the night.

Additionally, both the Visalia Ransacker (who is considered the prime suspect in the murder of Claude Snelling) and the East Area Rapist took firearms along when burglarizing residences.

While most of the Visalia Ransacker's activities involved breaking into houses and vandalizing the owner's belongings, the Ransacker's crimes took a much darker turn on September 11, 1975.

Kid Rock is an equal opportunity ransacker, taking from both rap classicists like Public Enemy and Run DMC and party rockers like Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

In all, the Visalia Ransacker is believed to be responsible for more than eighty burglaries in Visalia and the East Area Rapist is linked to more than fifty rapes and burglaries across northern California.

Because of the DNA link between the Original Night Stalker and the East Area Rapist, and the M.O.-link between the East Area Rapist and the Visalia Ransacker, it has been speculated widely that all three suspects are one man.