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subscribe it helps out so much and if you are listening on audio can you just give me a five star review if it's anything less don't worry we don't need it but five stars that's what we want here I'm Payton Moreland and today I'm diving back into the cruddy world of

serial killers specifically those who have claimed a higher than average number of victims, the kind of serial

killers who often get called the most prolific.

But I have to say, these sick, pathetic deviance don't deserve words like prolific, words that pump them up and somehow

frame them as celebrity-like.

There's nothing to celebrate about murder, especially murderers like Gary Ridgway, who we covered last week.

And the same can be said about today's monster, an especially twisted and cruel individual

who would have loved for you to think of him as the most prolific serial killer.

So let's not give him that as we now begin this week's story.

18 year old Nancy Ellen Trotter and 17-year-old Pamela Sue Wells

were doing what many young people back in 1972

often did, to explore their freedom and to get around from place to place on the cheap.

They were hitchhiking.

Nancy was from Michigan and Pamela was from Texas, and the two young women had only just met.

It was hitchhiking in fact that brought them together.

That was the beauty of hitchhiking. You could meet new people, make new friends, and suddenly you're not

traveling solo. You have a companion. Nancy and Sue had met while hitching in Illinois and

figured they might as well consolidate their hitchhiking trips

since both were headed in the same direction. Florida. But of course the dark side to

hitching rides was you never knew whose car you were getting into.

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