This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

It is not intended for children.

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Cryer.

You know, sometimes it seems that strange and unusual crimes

dominate the news cycle. I don't know if this has to do with the time of the year, changes

in the climate or economy, the fact that there's a full moon out, or what?

But I've been noticing a lot of newsworthy and very odd crime stories in my area of the country

for the last couple of months.

So I've decided to give you not one, but three true crime stories in this episode.

Each one was reported not long ago, and all of them made me go, hmm, when I learned about them. I couldn't wait to dig in to see what more I could learn, and also I couldn't

wait to share them with you. All of these stories made me sit up and take notice. I've put together all the details I can

find up to this point and I'll continue to follow these cases. I'll update you in the future

should more information be revealed. I hope you enjoy this episode that I've titled What the Crime? Beginning in the spring of 2021 and over the next 18 months a string of killings would occur in

Stockton, California. Stockton, California is a mid-sized city as California

cities go, located 83 miles east of the city of San Francisco, and 75 miles

northeast of San Jose, where I'm located.

The population of Stockton is 320,000, and it's an agricultural area. It's considered the

California Central Valley. The community of Stockton has struggled with

poverty and violence including drugs, gangs, and robbery as most mid-sized cities go. But it has a

disproportionate number of crime per capita and this has been attributed to the

level of poverty in the area as well as the fact the drug trade has taken hold in the community for some time now.

But in 2021, the public began to fear that a serial killer was operating in their community.

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