The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (Part Three)
Unresolved10 Jan 2021

The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (Part Three)

"The only way to connect this is if we have some kind of freak who travels the whole city."

In 1975, a confidential FBI report - which was published the same year that a psychological profile was created for an unknown killer from Sonoma County - purported that the murders of hitchhikers from Santa Rosa were linked to at least eight others from the surrounding area.

These eight additional murders, which spanned as far north as Yuba County and as far south as Monterey County, all unfolded at the same time as the Santa Rosa crimes and seemed to be centered around the San Francisco Bay Area. And while they all varied in unique ways, they seemed to share a number of similarities...



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Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan

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Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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