Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And I have been dying to tell you this story. It is a story about a serial killer. Not one of the ones we've been asked to cover time and time again, like the ones who have gotten endless coverage as people pick apart their psyche and motivations. This is about someone I'd never heard of, someone who police suspect of terrible things because

somehow, wherever this guy goes, tragedy follows. But they have never had enough to prove the

things they so strongly suspect. So this man, either one of the unluckiest people I've ever heard of, or a cold-blooded killer, is living among all of us.

He could be our neighbor or the guy we pass at the grocery store.

Someone we know, someone our listeners know.

But remember, crime junkie life role number one, you never

really know anyone ever. But it's my job to make sure you're well informed. So buckle up,

kiddos. This one's a doozy. I'm talking about the cases that have been linked to a man they call

the Lewis Clark Valley killer.

And I'm going to talk about who police think that man actually is.

I'm going to talk about who police think that man actually is. Idle. Idle. I don't know what was in the water in the fall of 1982,

but authorities in the Lewis Clark Valley, where Washington and Idaho and Oregon all meet,

they were underwater with cases.

Between August 31st and September 19th in this area

where not much happens, four people had gone missing. It started with a two-year-old little boy

named Ricky Barnett, who was visiting his grandparents' farm in Grangeville, Idaho. And while

workers were unloading a delivery of chickens,

Ricky vanished into thin air. Almost two weeks later, on September 12th, two young women went missing

while outrunning errands in Lewiston, Idaho, 21-year-old Christina Nelson and her step-sister,

18-year-old Jacqueline Miller, who goes by Brandy. Then, just as the 12th of September turned into the 13th, before anyone even knew that Brandy and Christina were missing,

35-year-old Stephen Parasol vanished after he was dropped off at the local civic theater in the same small town.

So, by the 19th of September, when 18-year-old Jennifer Vincent and her car

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