In 1979, five girls vanished in Southern California. What no one knew was that ex-cons Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were hunting them...together. In Part 1, we uncover the origin story of the Toolbox Killers: how a prison friendship gave rise to one of the most calculated and sadistic killing sprees in U.S. history.

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