Good evening and welcome to Nighty Night with Robbie and John Drey. Bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm DJ Lubal, the shows producer. Tonight's story shows us that when it comes to killers on the run,

you can't trust anyone. Please enjoy Old Country Road.

The inside of the old Ford Pinto was hot and sticky and once again the AC unit was blowing tepid air.

Damn thing was out of free on. Amanda rolled down her window, reluctantly removing the only barrier between her and the muggy night air.

The hair that had fallen out of her messy buns stuck to the back of her neck and her shoulders and arms gleamed with a slick sheen of sweat.

It was late, later than she had intended to be out on this Old Country Road in Backwoods, Georgia.

She'd left the trailer park an hour earlier after Kelly, her 10-year-old daughter had finally fallen asleep, creeping out quietly so as not to wake her.

After all, it was a school night and a work night and Amanda herself had to be back in bed soon if she was going to get a decent night sleep.

Amanda glanced at her cell phone, midnight. A voice crackled through the radio announcing the news at the top of the hour, the only sound cutting through the silence of the night.

Thanks for tuning into WKLR. Here are our top headlines this hour. The bus unit worker strike continues for a fourth day as negotiations break down with municipal authorities.

The Parks and Recommission has scheduled a series of public information and comment meetings on their 10-year plan, and the fire that gutted the Old Windmill Church last week has been declared an arson.

In a press conference yesterday, police chief William Horn assured the public that adequate resources were being committed to investigating the arson despite many of the county's officers being tasked with a country road killer case.

The authorities are still seeking the public's assistance with any information about the series of brutal murders across the Tri-County area in the past six months.

As the news faded to the hottest tracks on the country charts, Amanda's mind stayed on the killings that had terrified everyone in a 50 mile radius.

The killer struck every few weeks, murdering people late at night on lonely roads. There have been eight victims so far, including two couples, each one shot between the eyes with a 12 gauge shotgun, half their heads blown clean off.

The victims were all found either in their cars or right next to their car pulled off the side of a country road. There was never any evidence of a struggle, no sign that they had been run off the road and none of them were parked in a place that you would expect people to park.

They had definitely been driving somewhere and then pulled over, but no one could figure out why they stopped. Did the killer chance upon them by luck or was the killer able to make them pull over?

The killings seemed completely random. The victims hadn't been robbed or sexually assaulted and there was apparently no connection between any of them, which made things even harder for the police and scarier for the public.

Amanda's grandmother had forbid her from leaving the trailer park after dark, warning her that the old country killer had returned after a 20 year hiatus.

Two decades earlier, nearly a dozen local victims had perished in exactly the same way as they were now. All found shot between the eyes, left in or around their cars in the dead of the night.

The killer had never been caught, but as suddenly as the murders had started, they stopped.

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