Woman's close encounter with the killer hiding in the bush It started with the creaky wooden verandah floorboards making a chorus of cracks and moans in the dead of the night. A 28-day nightmare that Alfred Hitchcock would applaud. At a remote health retreat deep in a mid-north coast mountain range, Malcolm Naden was continuing his four-year reign of terror. Naden, a double murderer on the run, was hungry and disturbed. As his urges grew, so did his brazen attitude to at least one female who happened to be staying on the property. Hungry and very disturbed: Malcolm Naden. It was spring in 2008 when Naden first walked along the verandah and attempted to open a door. Less than a fortnight later, a young woman got her first glimpse of the fugitive - and it sent shivers up her spine. Only his eyes were visible. But Naden did not run or try to hide. Instead, he saw her staring and returned the glare. A week later, she heard someone running from a building as she approached. Later, she discovered a sleeping bag missing. With her fears growing and her sleep lessening, the woman decided to move camp to inside a more secure area of the compound with a lockable door. At 8.10pm one late October night, her sliding door made a clunking noise. She jumped to see the silhouette of a male at the door. He was trying to rip it open but, as the woman held her breath, the door held firm. The man had a torch and its blue light beam shone into the room, reflected off a mirror and directly onto the woman. She screamed, enough to startle the man. He ran off. The following morning, the woman rose to find a piece of paper with a badly scrawled message written in blue ink. "Nice moles," the note said. There was only one way he could have seen any marks on her body: when she was in her underwear or naked. Experts would later confirm Naden's fingerprint was on the note.