By Robert Riggs



LAPD Homicide Detective John St. John aka "JigSaw John" Badge #1



Legendary LAPD Homicide Detective John St. John walked among the dead for nearly a half-century.



Known as “JigSaw John,” he pursued monsters that had an insatiable appetite for blood and suffering.



Jane Howatt, a suburban housewife and aspiring writer, wanted to trade her tennis racket for something more meaningful.



St. John didn’t need company, and he sure didn’t want a young unpublished author in his way. 



But something about Howatt’s curiosity—earnest, unspoiled, insistent—broke down his guard.



St. John worked the evidence; Howatt worked the story. 



The result is “JigSaw and Jane: Thirteen Years of Murder & Mayhem with Badge Number One.” 



St.John empathized with crime victims because he was one of them.



As a young jailer, a prisoner ambushed him with an iron bar ripped from a bunk.



The prisoner savagely beat St. John to the brink of death, leaving him blind in one eye.



In another life, JigSaw and Jane would have barely noticed each other in a supermarket aisle. 



Instead, they found themselves peering into crime scenes of LA’s most brutal and sensational crimes together.



This is their story.