In the second half of the 20th century, California not only seemed home to America's highest concentration of cults, but also to most of the nation's serial killers.

We've already covered so many of them here.

Randy, the scorecard killer Kraft, Richard, the nightstalker, Ramirez, Ed the co-ed

killer Kemper.

Mother!

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. aka the Grim Sleeper.

The freeway killer, William Bonin Old Billy Guttereper. The Freeway Killer, William Bonin, old Billy Gutterballs, the Golden State

Killer Joseph James De Angelo, the dating game killer, Rodney, Alcala, and many many others.

One lesser known Southern California serial killer with a higher victim count than

many of the monsters I just mentioned was a man whose names most of you are probably unfamiliar

with. William Lester Suff.

Suff targeted women in and around the Southern California cities of Riverside and Lake Elsinor.

Investigators believe he started killing women in 1986,

not too long after serving almost 10 years in prison in Texas for a murder over there

After his arrest in January of 1992 stuff was connected to 19 murders some suspect that the some suspect the number could be much higher.

Many believe itself is virtually unknown due to his victim demographic.

Local sex workers, many of whom had criminal records and were struggling with addiction.

Bill picked up these vulnerable women in his van and murdered them soon afterwards.

In several cases he remained at the crime scene to mutilate his victims

by cutting their breasts off, posing them in sexual positions, always

making sure to expose needle marks on their inner arms, others were placed in dumpster enclosures

as if the killer were telling the police exactly what he thought of these women.

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