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249: How A Deranged Serial Killer Almost Got Away With It: The Ghosts of Highway 20

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True Crime, News, History

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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0:00.0

Light out, everybody.

0:13.5

What's up, everybody?

0:14.5

Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:17.7

I'm your host Josh.

0:18.8

And I'm your host, Austin.

0:19.9

And I'm the producer Daniel.

0:21.5

And we're back with another one today. We're going to be taking a look at the highway 20

0:27.3

disappearances. This is a stretch of highway that runs west or east to west, I should say,

0:34.1

from the Idaho state border all the way across Oregon. And since the 70s, there's been a bunch of

0:43.5

women and girls who have been marginalized and disappeared and just have vanished across the stretch

0:53.0

of highway. And for a long long time

0:55.0

there was no answers as to what happened to many of these girls and

1:00.0

even today we still don't know a whole lot but we do know there was one man

1:06.0

that was using this stretch of highway for his hunting grounds.

1:11.6

And not just the hunting of deer, but the hunting of humans.

1:15.6

And he is just an absolutely despicable individual.

1:20.6

His name is John Ackroyd.

1:23.6

And so we're going to be covering his story along with many of the victims who have disappeared along Highway 20.

1:31.9

But it truly, it's just disturbing.

1:34.3

And there is so much police incompetence in this.

1:37.2

It'll make your head hurt.

1:39.9

I think what's always so concerning is with so many women and girls going missing, police

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