Who was this mass murderer?

When I was a child, I watched a horrific serial killer documentary about a crazed man. I can't remember all of the details but what I do remember was this man barged\broke into a house and had beat a young lady in her bed to a bloody pulp (with a blunt metal object, much like a car bumper piece or some sort) without stirring any attention in the house. Everyone slept through the disturbance. Luckily enough, she lived; because she woke up later feeling a terrible headache. She called out to her father who found his daughter with blood all over her face when they went into her bathroom. Later on, when trying to flee a city, the man tried to ambush a woman in her parked car but another man helped her out as he grabbed a cro-bar out of his truck to fend the fiend off. It scared me terribly when I was younger. WHAT CASE WAS THIS//Who was this criminal?