Norman Church (b. 1951; d. 9 Sept 1990) was the husband of Deborah Church, the father of two daughters, and a mechanical engineer for an aerospace company who lived in Los Angeles. Between January and September of 1988, he murdered nine prostitutes by strangling them with the straps of their purses. He was initially labelled the Westside Strangler. A task for to apprehend the killer was led by Lt. Terry Lloyd. Harry Bosch was supervisor of the B squad (night). The killer's M.O. of painting over their faces with pancake makeup, red lipstick, heavy rouge, and sharp black eyeliner earned him the nickname of "the Dollmaker". He also painted a white cross on the nail of the right big toe that investigators later discovered was meant to be "the steeple of a Church."