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I don't remember talking at all when that was going on.

Not knowing what he was doing. I thought he was getting me from my grandparents' money,

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

David McVicar 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 hitchhike 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 could 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 been 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 five o'clock in the evening. I was going to hitchhike home, so I walked across the street

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