The Scoutmaster Killer

The most dangerous monsters don't look like monsters. They look like role models.

In the early 1980s, parents in Nebraska were paralyzed with fear. Young boys were

vanishing during their morning paper routes, snatched right off their bikes in broad

daylight. The killer was John Joubert. To the outside world, he was a polite

US Air Force member and an Assistant Scoutmaster. He spent his weekends teaching children

about survival, safety, and knot-tying. But in secret, he was using those

skills to hunt them. He drove through neighborhoods with a hunting knife and rope in his

trunk, looking for isolated targets. He was finally caught because of a single,