The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (Part Five)
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The discovery of three bodies in July of 1979 - after years of inactivity in this case - would bring about a new wave of speculation in the press. Despite investigators hoping that these discoveries could help provide answers for the numerous unsolved cases, all they did was end up creating even more questions.
In the decades since, investigators have pondered whether this case could be connected to some of the most infamous names in all of true crime, Ted Bundy and the Zodiac among them. But nearly half-a-century later, all of these murders remain unsolved...
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Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan
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| 1:09.9 | Between 1972 and 1973, at least seven women were murdered in California's Sonoma County. |
| 1:17.9 | First came 12-year-old Maureen Sterling and 13-year-old Ivan Weber, |
| 1:22.9 | who were last seen at an ice rink in downtown Santa Rosa in February of 1972. |
| 1:28.9 | Their disappearance would go unreported, with police believing that they had simply run away. |
| 1:33.9 | But their bodies were found months later in December of 1972 on the outskirts of town. |
| 1:39.9 | Because of the decomposed state of their remains, no official cause of death could be determined, |
| 1:45.9 | but investigators would theorize that the two girls had attempted to hitchhike shortly before their murders. |
| 1:51.9 | Just weeks after Maureen and Ivan's disappearance, another young woman from the region would go missing. |
| 1:57.9 | 19-year-old Kim Allen was last seen hitchhiking outside of San Francisco in March of 1972, |
| 2:04.9 | seemingly heading back to her home in Santa Rosa. |
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