From July to November in 1974 20 people turned up dead murdered their bodies scattered across the handful of states

14 women and girls six men and boys their ages ranging from 65 down to only seven

Some had been shot some had been strangled wanted been savagely stabbed with the pair of scissors

Some seem to have been killed as an afterthought during a burglary others murdered while camping or after being picked up at a bar

Some of their bodies were found with an hours of their deaths other bodies have never been found

Some of the corpses that were found had been sexually assaulted some of the victims had been raped while alive at least one sexually

Desc- at least one sexually

After death

Police in various states were stumped the murders would never be connected until the capture of the killer until after some confession tapes

The killer made before his arrest were finally handed over to authorities

Before his capture of various investigators if they were even familiar with more than one of this killers murderous crimes

Were left to wonder was this the work of one man two men working together possibly more or were the various murders not connected at all

Just a series of random killings was the person or people they were looking for a sexually motivated rapist or a

burglar who didn't like to leave witnesses behind or a

Psychopath who just killed for the joy of killing or all of the above

The victims were killed in several different states from Florida all the way back to the west coast

More murders back east finally by November 1974 the police had a lead for at least some of these murders a

Reporter named Sandy Fox had spent a week with the man who told her his name was Darrell golden

He'd picked her up in a hotel bar and they'd spent a week together during which time Sandy noticed that the young man drove a

Swanky white car and had a lot of credit cards

But never took never had any cash and he wanted Sandy to write a book about him saying that he would shortly be dead for something terrible

He'd already done according to Fox this guy was a dreamboat sexy young dude who seemed to have everything going for him

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