For 10 days in July 2018, a Texas parolee terrorized the city of Houston.
Jose Gilberto Rodriguez’s violent spree exposed cracks in the criminal justice system, devastated families, and set off a manhunt that became a race against time.
“We started to realize that the bodies were stacking up and in a very quick amount of time,” remembered Samantha Knecht, a prosecutor with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. “We had to find the guy because we just knew that it wasn’t going to stop.”…