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There was a series of rapes of adult women, of kidnapping some rapes of adult women, that were done by this group of men called the Green Vega rapist.

And they were basically, I guess the best way to describe them as like a rape club.

I mean, some of them would go out some nights, others would go out other nights, and they would drive a Green Vega around, and they would kidnap women off the street,

like at bus stops and things like that, take them to someplace, rape them, sodomize them,

and then let them go. Some of the rapes were pretty brutal. And when they finally got

captured, one of them started making noise and saying, well, I know who the freeway phantom is.

And he starts naming people within the group and starts talking about how he knew about the different murders and stuff like that.

We call him jailhouse snitchers or informants.

He's desperate because if he can give up information, that

that increases his chance of getting a deal and getting out from under this. We're desperate

because, you know, of course, we want to solve this case. Jail house informants are really good

as suckering us as detectives because we want to believe.

And that's exactly what happened.

The homicide detectives termed the cases, the little girl cases.

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