I am your host KTown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal, and horror tales.

You would think it's common knowledge that hitchhiking or picking up hitchhikers can be a very dangerous and risky practice.

However, while it's heavily discouraged now, there was once a time when hitchhiking was very common,

and people had few qualms about using it as a form of travel. Unfortunately, creepy tales

like these are the reason people are now more aware of the dangers of hitchhiking.

These stories ended in tragic murders, mysterious disappearances,

and even brushes with the supernatural.

The Orange Sock murders.

It takes a very brazen killer to abduct and murder two separate women

at two separate locations at two separate times on the same night.

But that's exactly what happened in 1982, near the town of Breckenridge, Colorado.

At the time Breckenridge was known as a safe community, so hitchhiking was pretty much a daily occurrence for many of its residents.

On the evening of January 6th, 29-year-old Bobby Joe Oberholzer phoned her husband, Jeff, to let him know she was hanging out with friends at a local pub and would get a ride home. Bobby never

arrived. Jeff went searching for her the next morning and eventually found his wife's body

in a remote field. Bobby had been shot to death. Curiously, an orange sock that did not

belong to her was found nearby.

Six months later, the body of another missing woman, 21-year-old Annette Kay Schnee, was discovered

in a wooded area, 21 kilometers, 13 miles, from where Bobby was found.

Annette had been sexually assaulted and shot to death.

She also happened to be wearing the matching orange sock from Bobby's murder scene. It's believed

that the same perpetrator had picked up Bobby and Annette at different points throughout the

evening while they were hitchhiking

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