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Just a really quick note before I get started, I will be releasing this episode and then one more episode on August 29th. And then I will be on break until November 14th.

So this episode is a first for me.

It's the first time that I'm going to revisit an old episode because there have been new developments including a trial and a conviction.

This original episode was one of our first episodes that was released over two years ago.

I believe it was episode 10.

It was an episode that always stuck with me because it went unsolved for so long.

And once the perpetrator was identified, you could trace back through the years, the house and wives,

that explain why these murders went unsolved for so long.

So I'm just going to jump into the episode

with a refresher on how it all unfolded.

San Mateo County lies just south of San Francisco and today it's more commonly known as Silicon

Valley and home to some of the most well-known tech companies in the world. But back in the 1970s, it was a residential

commuter area where families looking for a slower pace of living could settle down with a house in a yard and still commute into nearby

San Francisco for work. These communities were considered a quiet escape from

the bustling city and a preferential option to Oakland or Berkeley, which are just

across the bridge in the East Bay. So when the first four months of 1976 saw the brutal murders of five teenage girls,

the people who lived in San Mateo County were terrified.

Even more sinister was the striking resemblance the girls shared, some even looking like they could be pictures of the same person.

With each murder, the police were more desperate for answers but a break in the case never came

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