Robert Sadler and his pursuit of the “Friendly Burglar Rapist”

Retired cop Robert Sadler — a White Rock-area resident who now works as a writer, artist and private investigator — kept some of his old notepads. On one page is scrawled a profanity-punctuated rant. Sadler says he wrote it in the late 1970s, probably while sitting in his car in the middle of the night, overlooking a cluster of

Vickery Meadow apartments where he was hunting a serial rapist.

“Trying to be vigilant and for what? To catch the man the department doesn’t give a damn about? And for what, I keep asking myself. The victims care. Tom and I care. I guess we care, but no one else.”

As the head of the Central Police Divi-