Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder and sexual violence

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

On a cool evening in January of 1977, cars whizzed through a busy intersection near the community. of college student from the nearby UC Santa Barbara sucked in a deep breath and

approached the road. In her hands she gripped a stack of missing person

flyers. As Patty approached a corner light post,

she looked down at the pictures of the two

missing women.

They looked so much like her.

Patty shook away the unpleasant font,

pulled out a roll of tape, and got to work hanging the

flyers.

She didn't want to be at the intersection longer than she had to.

It was the same place one of the women vanished from six weeks earlier.

Once the Flyers were up, Patty waited a few minutes.

A friend was supposed to pick her up and take her to a play rehearsal, but there was no sign of them.

Patty shrugged her shoulders.

There was nothing else to do.

She stepped up to the curb and stuck her thumb out.

Immediately as if it had been waiting, a car pulled over.

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