| Maypearl Police Chief Kevin Coffey quickly impressed the small Texas community he’d sworn to protect. He seemed especially good, residents noted, with troubled teenagers. Few were aware that Maypearl was the eighth law enforcement agency that Coffey had worked at in 11 years. Fewer knew that there was a trail of accusations and secrets in his past. And none could have predicted the destruction he would wreak in their town. The kids would eventually call him The Creeper. The adults would denounce him as a monster. The prosecutors who put him away for child sexual abuse would describe him as a master manipulator “who groomed the community.” But Coffey, sitting behind a glass partition in a state prison, would struggle to describe himself — and how he got away with exploiting his power for so long. | 
