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It dawned on me that my cousin's a possible victim of Erbomeister, and he's never been identified.

He was a pretty fun-going guy, loved a party, always the center of attention.

Jeff didn't know how to help me at first, but he told me he would.

And yeah, he busted this case wide open.

In the summer of 1993, something strange started happening.

Young men began to disappear.

One by one.

Friends and family didn't know what happened to them, only that they vanished.

The truth was far worse than anyone could have imagined.

And the crime scene was so large that investigators were overwhelmed.

Back then, police had clues that they were onto a serial killer, but the investigation was dropped.

For nearly 30 years, families were left with no answers.

But that changed when one man looking for his cousin made a phone call.

And more bodies turned up.

This is America's Crime Lab. I'm Alyn Lance Lesser.

Producer Catherine Fenelosa is here. And Catherine, I have to admit, this case has me intrigued.

Well, there is something, I think, about serial killers. It's like, you know, the saying of like a car crash, everyone sort of slows down to

watch. Yeah. Because it defies normal human behavior. And so maybe there's a part, at least for me,

that's like, oh my gosh, what makes these people tick because it's so abnormal? Yeah. Like, how is it

even possible? This case is also unique because it involves

the second largest amount of unidentified human remains ever discovered at a crime scene in this

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