The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror | Episode 1 : Don’t Talk to Strangers

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ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror Episode 1 : Don’t Talk to Strangers Breaking a nearly 40 year silence, Tina Risico reveals a harrowing account of captivity with a killer who left a trail of death in his wake. The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror was produced by Ample Entertainment and 101, the producers of Yellowstone, for ABC News Studios. The series is now streaming on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there, 2020 podcast listeners, this is Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020.
0:08.0	We're bringing another brand new true crime series from ABC News Studios into your feed.
0:14.3	It's called The Beauty Queen Killer, Nine Days of Terror.
0:18.3	An extraordinary story about a 16 year old girl who
0:21.7	was abducted in 1984 by a serial killer on a cross-country
0:26.1	murder spree. She says she was held for nine days and forced to help her kept her
0:31.3	abduct another girl.
0:33.0	Forty years later, she's ready to share her story for the first time.
0:38.0	Here's episode one, Don't Talk to strangers. The early 80s in Southern California were actually pretty innocent.
0:53.2	We didn't have so phones, so we just go out and have fun, you know, watch the sunsets, roller skating,
1:01.3	dancing.
1:07.0	The mall was a big part of our life. We don't just cruise around.
1:10.0	One day at the mall, and just changed like that.
1:15.0	The authorities took notice when pretty girls suddenly began disappearing.
1:20.0	His method of operating is to approach young women in shopping malls.
1:25.0	Young women have disappeared along a trail from coast to coast.
1:30.0	You have a man who's on the run going from state to state and killing as he goes.
1:39.0	Kidnapping, aggravated murder and wait.
1:47.0	A coast-to-coast manhunt, a trail of tragic mysteries. The intent search for Christopher Wilder.
1:49.0	Christopher Wilder, Christopher Wilder.
1:51.0	Is now nationwide.
1:53.0	A man the FBI calls extremely active and very dangerous.
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