PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- When Andrew Luster left his motel room here for the last time last week, he left behind an innocuous spiral notebook.

On those lined pages, in his own inconsistent scrawl, he also left behind tantalizing clues regarding his whereabouts, actions and thoughts during at least part of his nearly six months on the run.

The 13-page diary of sorts, viewed Saturday by the Ventura County Star, provides a look into the dangerous, haphazard mind of the serial rapist and Max Factor heir.

In it, he jotted down Spanish translations for pickup lines and sexual references, wrote names of people whom he expected to send him thousands of dollars and criticized Ventura County authorities for prosecuting him.

He even made a "payback" list with the names of sheriff's detectives, his three victims and prosecutors, including former District Attorney Michael Bradbury.

"They were trying to do him in for having sex with two of his past girlfriends, lock him up forever for being with two girls he had slept with over 100 times each," he wrote. "Yes they were in an extreme state of inebriation and a vid [sic]. But this -- as any actively sexual person (player) knows is not outside the grounds of ethical play."

There are references to the month of May, and the notebook ends with specific information about this popular tourist city, including names of topless bars and taverns and the Motel los Angeles, where he stayed for three days until bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman captured him Wednesday on a downtown street corner.

Luster, 39, fled his trial in January while under house arrest. A jury convicted him in absentia of 86 criminal counts in connection with the rapes of three women inside his Mussel Shoals home. The women were drugged and two of the rapes were videotaped.

A judge sentenced him to 124 years in prison, which he began serving hours after authorities returned him to California on Thursday.

Since he fled, investigators had said they weren't sure where he went but had received leads from all over the world.

Chapman's longtime partner, Beth Smith, confirmed that global search after Chapman's release Saturday from an immigration facility here. During a phone interview with The Star, she said her boyfriend had been on Luster's trail for months, sniffing him out in Mexico, Argentina, Hawaii and Thailand.

About one month ago, she said, Chapman had a "major, major break" when he received a tip that Luster was sitting in a Bangkok bar called Mona Lisa. But, she said, Luster slipped away.

The notebook doesn't offer any obvious details about places other than Mexico, so it is unclear when Luster began writing in it. But there are specific references to places like Lake Chapala near Guadalajara, and two business cards found in his room indicate he also stayed in Colima, a few hours southeast of here and inland from the beach town of Manzanillo.

Law enforcement officials in Ventura County also had suspected that other people helped Luster flee.

The journal offers names -- Mike, M. Dean, L.L., Alex -- and refers to a "deal" -- possibly some sort of business investment -- to get him money.

"It's been over the three week period -- you said -- the deal need [sic] to be expedited now -- it's critical -- much opportunity for business has been lost already and much more will be if you don't get this thing done like you promised."

Later, he wrote, "Whether I know Spanish to your liking or if I'm living at the office or whatever has absolutely nothing to do with you following through with the delivery of my 80k."

He also jotted down an apparent note to himself that read, "Ask Alex about any tax hit his account would receive if Mike transferred the money to his account."

And this: "Mike -- How exactly do you think I'm supposed to survive and make a living without the money that this requires?"

The penmanship in the notebook changes from all capital letters to printed upper and lower case to cursive handwriting, and the thoughts shift as quickly as Luster likely did while on the lam.

On one line, he made a note to himself to get his car, a white Volkswagen Jetta, tuned up. Then he wrote "beard dye, hair dye." Then he scratched out a phone number with a 333 area code, along with an e-mail address.

Later, he wrote, "Look for lumbar support cushion," and information about where to get his surfboards fixed. He made a grocery list: "ice / limes / avos (side) -- sandwich stuff."

About the third page, he began to note Spanish/English translations for sexual words, including masturbation and how to ask, "Can I touch your chest?" and "I will make you feel better."

"You want to make good money really easy," he wrote in Spanish.

In one passage, Luster wrote this dialogue: "Does it make you feel good to try and humiliate me? If it does go ahead. Maybe it will make you a happy person."

In one page, Luster listed specific names of prosecutors, including Deputy District Attorney Tony Wold, the man who prosecuted him, and his wife, also a deputy district attorney.

Among the other names are sheriff's Detective Melissa Smith, the first officer to interview Luster after his arrest, District Attorney Investigator Leslie Robertson and sheriff's detectives Brian Tiffany and Scott Peterson, the main detectives on the case.

He also listed the names of the three women he raped inside his Mussel Shoals home. All the names were under the heading "PAYBACK," which was underlined.

Later, he called the investigators and prosecutors "government robots" who arrested him to better their own careers and look good in the eyes of the taxpayers.

And in an entry that makes clear his insistence of innocence, he offered this:

"To want to take a good man's life and destroy his family -- two beautiful and innocent children not to mention throwing a dark pall over his family forever was nothing short of ruthless and much more to the point of unforgivable."