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Going West: True Crime

Highway 20 Killer // 117

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Between the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s, a monster invaded a main highway across Oregon and committed multiple crimes against in his wake. Although his name was always known, he was always somehow one step ahead of police and continued to get away with murder. But as time went on and fresh eyes viewed the case files, investigators finally pursued justice for numerous victims. This is the story of, Rachanda Pickle, Kaye Turner, Marlene Gabrielson, Melissa Sanders, Shiela Swan, and potentially many others. This is also the story of John Ackroyd, also know as The Highway 20 Killer. *BONUS EPISODES* patreon.com/goingwestpodcast *CASE SOURCES* https://projects.oregonlive.com/ghostsofhighway20/stories-annotated.pdf https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206340289/john-arthur-ackroyd https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/12/pers-qa-murder-conviction-didnt-disqualify-john-ackroyd-from-pers-pension.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171981794/kaye-jean-turner https://charleyproject.org/case/rachanda-lea-pickle https://www.reddit.com/r/serialkillers/comments/id745p/john_ackroyd_as_a_possibility_for_the_attack_on/ ( https://www.reddit.com/r/serialkillers/comments/id745p/john_ackroyd_as_a_possibility_for_the_attack_on/ ) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is going on True Crime fans? I'm your host Teef and I'm your other host Daphne,

0:18.9

and you're listening to Going West.

0:21.4

This felt like a really good time to cover this case that was actually suggested by At

0:26.0

Murder Knits on Instagram, also known as Tabitha. Thank you Tabitha. We were on Highway

0:32.5

20 this past week. Yeah, we were. We're on a little road trip and we were like, oh, this

0:38.6

is kind of weird. We're covering this case and we're driving down this highway for many

0:42.8

hours. Yes, it's a very, very long stretch of highway.

0:45.7

Yeah, so it felt appropriate to cover it this week. And I also just wanted to mention,

0:50.0

we really appreciate everybody who sends us case recommendations. So again, thank you Tabitha.

0:55.4

Sometimes we either forget to note if you did recommend a case or we find it again later.

1:01.8

So if we don't say your name and you did recommend a case, we're so sorry and we didn't

1:04.9

do it on purpose. But please don't come for us. But we appreciate all of you so much.

1:08.7

So thank you and thank you to everybody for tuning in today. I also wanted to let you

1:12.6

guys know that we just dropped our spring summer merch collection. So really fun. We have

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1:32.9

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1:39.6

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1:49.9

Hope you guys enjoy rocking going west. And again, thanks for tuning in.

1:54.0

Alright guys, this is episode 117 of going west. So let's get into it.

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