An A&E, Original Podcast.

This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, violence, and suicide.

Listener discretion is advised.

I don't remember talking at all. is advised.

I don't remember talking at all when that was going on, not knowing what he was doing. I thought he was getting me for my grandparents money,

so I kind of thought that's what it was about but I didn't know what was

coming.

David McVicker grew up in Orange County, California, and was 14 years old in 1975.

Back then it was a lot different than it is now.

We used to hitch hike as our mode of transportation.

I started doing it when I was about nine years old. It was the

way that I got around. There wasn't buses. Everybody did it. Any given day you can

see hundreds of kids hitchhiking to the beach. So it was a pretty normal thing. I was never afraid to hitchhike because nothing bad had ever happened. It was always in good fun and sometimes we would do it on Saturday afternoons just to go up and down the beach and meet people.

It was a way to party and have fun and get to where you were going.

I never had a problem until this happened. On September 8th, 1975, David was leaving a friend's house and was making his way home.

It was the last day of summer.

The next day was going to be my first day at high school.

So I spent the day hanging out with my friends in Garden Grove

until it came time for me to go home about 5 o'clock in the evening.

I was going to go hitchhike home so I walked across the street

from his house there was a McDonald's and I was just going to walk up to the next light and go down to

Huntington Beach. As soon as I walked across the street a blue car pulled up next to me and there

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