The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (Part Two)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"There are plenty of places to hide a body and I've no doubt there are some around we haven't found."

Throughout 1973, detectives from California's Sonoma County would continue to investigate a bizarre string of deaths that had started the year prior. All of the victims were young women that were last seen hitchhiking in the area around Santa Rosa, Sonoma's largest city.

That year, the discovery of four additional bodies would be reported, all of whom appeared to have been targeted by the same killer. As police struggled to figure out the identity of this supposed serial offender, authorities publicly theorized that he was "playing games" with them...

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Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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1:26.5	The two heavily decomposed bodies were discovered by a pair of teenage boys that were hiking
1:31.4	through the region known as the Devil's Kitchen, due to the large number of caves nearby.
1:36.7	They would later inform authorities about their grisly discovery, showing investigators
1:41.1	where they had discovered the bodies, about 66 feet off of the roadway, while police
1:46.7	had been plagued with a rash of similar discoveries that same year. The identities of these two
1:52.3	were pretty easy to determine. The only double disappearance in their records that year,
1:57.5	belonged to 13 year old Yvonne Weber and 12 year old Maureen Sterling, who had disappeared
2:03.2	back in February. Months before police began to learn about the proposed killer that was
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