Once Upon a Crime

S5 Ep204: The Trailside Killer, Part 1

05.10.2021 - By Esther LudlowPlay

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This month I’ll be sharing a 3-part miniseries.  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Northern California was terrorized by a series of random murders that took place on hiking trails in state parks, national forests and coastal lands.  The public began to suspect that a serial killer was lurking among them and the media began referring to him as “The Trailside Killer”.

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