There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of line.

We have a weird.

Described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

Morning.

Cuff of murder.

Up until the mid-1990s, hitchhiking was viewed as a safe and adventurous way to see the world.

Until the bodies of missing hitchhikers started turning up murdered on September 19, 1992,

in New South Wales, Australia.

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

In the early 1990s, in a world fascinated by travel, police in Australia started noticing

a string of hitchhikers that seemed to disappear off the face of the planet.

There was the young Victorian couple, Deborah Everest and James Gibson, both 19, who went

missing after leaving Sydney for Confest on December 30th, 1989, and Simone Schmiddle,

21, from Germany, who had not been seen since January 20th of 1991. There was German couple

Gabor Neubauer, 21, and Anya Habschild, 22, who left their Kings Cross hostel on December 26th, 1991, and were never seen again,

and British backpackers Caroline Clark, 21, and Joanne Walters, 22, who were last seen in the

same area on April 18, 1992.

No one seemed to know where these kids were, and police had spent time investigating each disappearance that had come up empty-handed.

That was until, on September 19, 1992, when two runners in Belanglo State Forest stumbled upon something awful, a decomposing body.

The police were called, and the following morning, a second one was found, just decomposing body. The police were called and the following morning a second

one was found, just 98 feet away. With the help of dental records, police identified the bodies

as Caroline Clark and Joanne Walters, the British backpackers who had been missing for just over

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