It was the kind of forest you'd drive past without a second thought. Just another stretch of trees nestled off a highway in the new South Wales countryside.

Peaceful and still. But behind the stillness, something sinister was hiding. For years, carefree young travelers from around the world vanished without a trace along Australia's highways. Some were written off as

runaways and others as accidents. But deep in the Belonglo State Forest, a horrifying truth waited to

be unearthed. A predator had been hunting in plain sight. And the peaceful image of Australia

as backpackers' paradise was about to shatter. This is not just the story of a killer.

It's the story of how one man's darkness left a scar on an entire nation, and how justice nearly

slipped through the cracks in the process. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder,

all things that I love to consume, and I know you do too,

you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded, freak! And today we are taking a trip across

the pond over a couple, a couple hops, a couple hops, a couple skips across the pond,

over to Australia. Sorry if I butcher, absolutely butcher some of the naming here, some of the pronunciations,

but I'm going to do my very, very best.

That was terrible.

Gosh, bad.

But we're talking about a horrifying individual.

So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts go mock five down the highway,

slam on the brakes,

and bust through this windshield into this absolutely insane psychopathic killer together. I talk about some pretty heavy stuff on this channel. And to get some escape, I like to go outside,

and I like to just scroll online or connect with my family. But staying connected online doesn't necessarily mean that you're protected online.

So let me tell you about something that's literally changed how I use the internet every single day.

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Listen, I travel a lot for content creation and even for the movie that's coming out soon.

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