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JACKSON — Cold air filled Sgt. Russ Ruschill’s unmarked car Saturday night during a shadowy cruise down East Kelly Avenue.

His window down, the detective explained, “I’m listening for anything that’s out of place. People screaming or dogs barking. If someone is creeping down a back alley the dogs will give him away.”

It was just after 10 p.m. on Halloween.

The sergeant over the Jackson Police Department’s investigations unit, Ruschill was out on special assignment, part of new efforts to find a man believed to be sexually targeting women in unlocked east Jackson houses.

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