Sarah Clarke was captured but Morin evaded arrest and escaped out the back of the hotel.Serial Thriller: The Chameleon is a gripping new TV series most likely based on the case of Stephen Peter Morin and Sarah Pisan. The police surrounded the hotel where they were living and stormed the room, where they found an abductee, 23-year-old Pamela Jackson, who had been held hostage for weeks. The police were on the their trail by this point and had caught up to the couple. Although Morin claimed he didn’t want to kill her, he did so anyway, and her body was found in a restaurant car park in San Antonio. In December 1981, they attempted to abduct 21-year-old Carrie Scott when she caught them trying to steal her car. According to Rita’s son’s statement, she knew nothing about the murders, and her son unsuspectingly helped soundproof the van before their trip.Morin quickly found another companion, 32-year-old Sara Clarke, who knew of his killing spree and the couple travelled through Texas in Morin’s van. Rita didn’t like the way Morin was looking at other women, and the charm he exuded, so she eventually decided to leave him. On the way to their destination, Morin disappeared once again and attacked 21-year-old Janna Bruce in Corpus Christi. The couple decided to stay and Morin found work as a painter, and in the fall of 1981, he killed Sheila Walen, a 23-year-old, in Golden.They left Colorado soon after and headed to Texas.
They bought the van and started their travels, stopping in Denver, to visit Rita’s family. Rita owned an antique shop, which Morin convinced her to sell so they could buy a van to travel across the country. He also travelled to Buffalo, New York, where his met Rita Xavier. At some point Morin came back to mainland America and hitchhiked to Louisiana where he found work as a machinist. In the following weeks, Morin would continue to call Sylvia, asking about news on the murders, insisting that the police were setting him up.The timeline is vague from hereafter. He didn’t tell her where he was going, but it was suspected he was in Hawaii. In December 1980, now estranged from his wife, Sylvia, he called telling her he was leaving Las Vegas. She was told by the police later that all of the photographs were of one person in different disguises Stephen Morin. They gave Sarah a large mugshot book to look through, so she could point out her stalker. The police had been keeping an eye on Stephen Morin, waiting to see what he would do next. Because of his countless identities and disguises, Sarah had no idea that the seemingly friendly man she knew as Robert Generoso, was the same man her friend was dating when she disappeared.Sarah began to receive vulgar beeper messages from her stalker, and eventually went to the police when she found out it was Generoso. Morin started stalking one of Cheryl’s friends, Sarah Pisan, at her job at a gas station. However, this time, Morin has dropped a bank card by her body. Her body was found six months later in the Utah desert. She had been dating him under the alias Andrew Ireland. Her body was found months later in Utah but she wouldn’t be identified straight away.In June 1980, Cheryl Daniels was shot dead by Morin. In January 1980, Morin abducted 19-year-old Susan Belote.
He gave another alias to police and was released from jail on $500 bail, pending trial. Morin was then arrested in Pleasanton, California for pulling a gun on two men, during an argument. He then obtained a birth certificate for one of these men Robert Generoso. While visiting Sylvia’s family in Connecticut, Morin toured Yale University’s library, to search the obituaries for men who were of similar ages and appearance to him. Here he met his future wife, a schoolteacher, named Sylvia. From this point, he was added to the federal most-wanted list, where he remained until his capture.Morin’s next move was to Las Vegas, Nevada, under the alias Robert Ireland. In September of the same year, Morin abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured a 14-year-old girl. He only was sentenced to a year of probation, due to using one of his fake identies.
This year he was also arrested in San Rafael, California, for possession of a syringe and resisting arrest. For these crimes, he was sentenced to five years’ probation.In 1976, he moved to San Francisco, where he constantly changed his identity, and found work as a mechanic. In 1972, he stole another car and was found in possession of LSD. At 15-years-old, Morin was arrested in Florida for stealing a car, for which he served a two-year sentence.