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Sep 2021
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S1 Ep.1: The Killings Begin

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From 1972 to 1973 twenty-one individuals were brutally murdered as the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office dealt with not one, but two serial killers: Ed Kemper and Herbert Mullin. World-renowned criminal psychologist Dr Michelle Ward takes us back to Santa Cruz just before the killings to investigate how such a tiny place could spawn two of America’s most notorious murderers.


 

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