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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders is a series of unsolved homicides of young women that took place in the early 1970s. Many of the victims were confirmed or believed to have been hitchhiking in or around the Santa Rosa, California area. High School girls and College students were not safe. Often times the women and girls were not found until several days later. Many discovered in rural areas. If you have any information regarding these cases please submit a tip at [email protected] or please call the Sonoma County Sheriff’s cold case unit at 1-707-565-2727

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The The
0:40.3	The In the early 1970s in Sonoma County, California, young women and girls were turning up dead.
1:10.0	Homicide victims discarded by the killer or killers, as detectives put it, like trash.
1:16.6	Many of the crimes were similar in both nature and victimology.
1:21.4	Despite an extensive investigation, the killer or killers remain unidentified to this day, and loved ones of the victims are still awaiting justice.
1:33.1	Among the victims, all of the women were last seen hitchhiking in and around Santa Rosa in Sonoma County in the North Bay Area of California.
1:45.0	The remains of all of the victims, except for one whose body has never been found,
1:50.0	were discovered in rural areas.
1:52.0	The victims were found nude, their bodies discarded near creek beds and at the bottom of steep embankments,
2:00.0	in an area northeast or east of the city.
2:03.7	A single gold earring was often present at the crime scene.
2:09.5	Police believe that the perpetrators of the Santa Rosa murders had interviewed potential
2:15.8	victims before killing them. This is thought to mean they assessed their victims based on certain characteristics,
2:24.3	behaviors or vulnerabilities before committing the crime.
2:29.3	If their suspicions are true, this means that the killer or killers very likely and even perhaps
2:36.4	on more than one occasion let some unsuspecting individual go free, as they did not fit
2:43.3	their preferred criteria for a suitable victim. One should consider themselves very lucky to fall short of this benchmark.
2:55.0	This is True Crime Garage.
3:06.6	Sonoma County located in the Bay Area of Northern California is home to the prosperous and vibrant city of Santa Rosa.
3:18.4	This is wine country and God bless them for that.
3:22.4	California's wine country.
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