On February 1st, 1994, a pair of hunters were out searching for a secluded area to hunt some hogs in when they spotted buzzards circling near Wyandotte Avenue and Tulip Street in northern Charlotte County, Florida.

Curious and thinking they were going to find a dead hog, they pulled over, parked, walked out into the woods.

And instead of the hog carcass, they were hoping to find, they found mutilated human remains.

The men reported what they found of the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office,

unintentionally initiating what will later become a massive hunt for a suspect who will become known as the Hog Trail killer.

Two years will pass with no new developments, but then three

more bodies will be found under similar circumstances. The victims, all men, had been sexually

mutilated, and ligature marks had been found on trees at the crime scenes, suggesting they had

been bound to those trees in their final moments. And then another victim will be found

next to the skeletal remains at the same dump site, someone who had died less than 24 hours earlier.

He'll be quickly identified as 21-year-old Richard Montgomery, who had recently acquainted himself

with a man named Dan. This clue and several others will lead investigators to Daniel Owen Conahan Jr.

Unlike many former time suck true crime subjects, Conahan is a suspected, not confirmed serial

killer. Although he was convicted of only one murder, he has been linked to many, many more.

Most of his suspected victims, transient men seeking employment

and gay men in Charlotte County, Florida. Conahan also suspected of eight more murders called the

Fort Myers-8, found in a mass grave in 2007. This week will cover the life and known and strongly

suspected crimes of Dan Conahan, the Hog Trail Killer, as well as

the undercover police operation that finally led to his arrest in this last October true crime

Halloween week edition of TimeSuck.

This is Michael McDonald, and you're listening to TimeSuck.

You're listening to TimeSuck.

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