This is a Blast Box Media Podcast. Why do you seem so scared? All I wanted to do is play with you. Please come and play with me.

I am so lonely. You're not afraid of the doll, are you? Don't be afraid. Come with me. I will show you where I'll say hide and seek. Do you want to play hide and seek? You hide and I'll find you. Heh. Oh, December 29th, 1977, while unloading groceries from the trunk of his car, Ambrose Griffin was

killed in a drive-by shooting. It was a solidly middle-class residential district in Sacramento, California.

There also appeared to be no motive behind the crime.

To quote Detective Bill Roberts, this is a quiet neighborhood near Carmichael.

Stuff like this doesn't happen here.

It just doesn't make sense that a man was shot while unloading groceries from a car. We didn't even call this a drive-by

shooting. The term was relatively new and almost exclusively used in talking about Los Angeles, not Sacramento.

Ambrose Griffin was taken to hospital and treated.

But the gunshot combined with high blood pressure

was more than he could handle. He passed away at 9.25 PM.

Determining a motive would be tough. Ambrose Griffin didn't have a lot of

enemies and generally stayed out of trouble. He kept his nose clean, as they say.

Without a motive, connecting the dots to the killer's door would prove to be a daunting task.

Shots had been ringing out in the same neighborhood for weeks. In some cases, it was merely what some firearm enthusiasts referred to as plinking, shooting their guns into the water.

Aside from the inconvenience of creating a racket at night,

it was otherwise harmless.

But not all the shots could be so easily explained. Not so harmless were the shots that were fired into random houses.

Bullets were found after the holes they made were discovered.

One woman's life was spared through a miracle. A bullet was shot through

her window and Mr. Scull by less than an inch when it zipped through her hair. The only evidence the police collected within 24 hours of the murder

were the shells and casings the murderer left behind.

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