The Picture it, Los Angeles, early 1980s.

The city is bathed in perpetual sunshine.

But there's a darkness lurking along the sunset strip, a shadow that

isn't just the usual Hollywood scandal or nightclub brawl. Women are vanishing, seemingly plucked

off the streets, and the LAPD is struggling to connect the dots. When they finally do, it's not

just one predator thereafter,

but multiple. And among them are Doug Clark and Carol Bundy, a twisted pair whose disturbing

partnership would earn them the nickname the the sunset strip like a fall. in 1983, Los Angeles was in the grip of something dark, something that hung in the air along

the sunset strip like a fog no one wanted to see.

Women were disappearing, vanishing off streets and sidewalks.

Their fates unknown, while the city, despite its endless sunshine, grew dim with fear.

It took law enforcement a little time to start connecting the dots, and who could blame them?

L.A. has always had a bit more than its share of lurid mysteries.

But when they did, they uncovered a nightmare woven not just by one, but several predators.

Among them were Doug Clark and Carol Bundy.

A disturbingly matched pair whose shared appetite for cruelty would earn them the nickname the Sunset Strip Killers. Together, they left a permanent scar in the city, a mark that still

feels fresh all these years later.

Let's begin with Doug Clark, a man raised in a household as volatile as the one he'd go on to

create. Doug claimed he moved over 37 times as a kid, a constant whirlwind due to his father's

career as a naval admiral, later naval intelligence officer.

Despite the chaos, the Clark family had money and the prestige that came along with it,

offering Doug and his four siblings a good education at top-tier schools. But as we'll see,

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