"I can talk," said Lydia Tillman with pride and great effort. For a woman who spent over five weeks in a coma after being sexually assaulted, strangled and doused in bleach, this is no small feat.

He denied it on live television. Said no to every question — did you kidnap her? Did you sexually assault her? Did you murder her? But his body said otherwise. He nodded. He fumbled. He cracked. This ...

The fire was his final move. Bleach covered the walls. Lydia Tillman wasn’t supposed to make it out alive—but she did. And when she finally opened her mouth, she named the man behind two brutal crimes ...