Welcome to you Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix original true crime stories.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host. Each episode we take a close up look at a true crime documentary or series and I talk to the people who made them, diving deep into the back stories and getting answers to questions raised by what we just watched.

On the show this week, the four-part docuiseries,

Night Stalker, the hunt for a serial killer. I'll be talking with Tiller Russell, the

series director. I know to listeners, this episode contains spoilers. the series was a period of terror in Southern California.

A series of random home invasion, sexual assaults,

and brutal murders were happening across the region.

Men, women, and children of all races and walks of life

were victims. And the methods of killings fit no

particular pattern. Some victims were strangled, some were shot, some were

beaten to death. Nightstalker is the definitive portrait of one of the most disturbing

and unpredictable serial killers in criminal history from the perspective of the

two detectives leading the hunt to capture him.

Our summer streets and the pavements are burning. In the 1980s, we were proud of the city.

LA was glamorous, but if you went around to the other side,

L.A. could be a very dark place.

I was on the freeway and here comes somebody's speeding and all of a sudden he just swerves around my car.

It's like he's right there like a moment stop and he has his

horrible big grin and he's missing all these teeth. He just stared at me like a

killer clown.

We got us a serial killer.

There were no doubt about it.

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