Who Are The Toolbox Killers? These Sadistic Serial Murderers Preyed On Young Women In California

A sadistic duo, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, used everyday items for torture and murder.

It’s the morning of February 6, 1986.  Australia as a nation, but more specifically New South Wales, is in a state of shock. Two days prior, the body of 26 year old nurse Anita Cobby had been found in a paddock in Prospect, 32 kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD. The news had broken that Anita had been murdered. But on the 6th of February, a morning radio host named John Laws obtained a leaked copy of the young woman’s autopsy report. All morning, he said, he considered whether or not to broadcast the details. He ultimately decided to. Laws shared explicit details about Anita Cobby’s injuries and the nature of her death, as Sydney siders drove to work or as they dropped their children at school. For a generation, those details would be imprinted on their psyche - a woman murdered in a manner beyond what any of us could ever imagine.  The events of February 2, the night Anita was murdered by strangers, has come to be understood as the most savage murder this state has ever known. When her killers were sentenced Justice Alan Maxwell described their crime as, "One of the most horrifying physical and sexual assaults. This was a calculated killing done in cold blood.” It remains a crime Australia won’t ever forget.

In the early hours of New Years' Day 1998, Olivia Hope and Ben Smart boarded a yacht. They were never seen again. Doubt re-examines the case from a fresh perspective. What if Watson didn't do it?

On January 3, 2022, 911 reported that 66-year-old Sheila Fletcher and her husband, Clay Fletcher, had found their 36-year-old daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher dead on their couch.

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18-year-old Hannah Elizabeth Graham was in her second-year of college at the University of Virginia. Out for the evening at Charlottesville's downtown pedestrian mall, meeting friends, and having drinks. A night any college student looked forward to. But Hannah ended up heavily intoxicated and all alone. That is, until she met a man. The last words overheard by a passer-by on the street were, "I'm not getting into the car with you," And then she was gone.

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Baumeister led a secret, murderous life. He picked up young men in gay bars and brought them back to his home at Fox Hollow Farms in Westfield — and killed them