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Jun 2024
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The Road Side Strangler - June 13 2024

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June 13th: Michael Ross' Last Murder (1984)

It’s an incredible thing to see when all the puzzle pieces fall together and a criminal is connected to all their crimes. On June 13th 1984 a serial killer took his final victim in a case that saw all of his crimes brought to the forefront by a confession and some solid police work.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bruce_Rosshttps://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/the-michael-ross-case-and-death-row-syndromehttps://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7834496https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/my-name-is-michael-ross/https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/michael_ross/8.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/nyregion/a-death-at-cornell-parents-belatedly-learn-a-serial-killers-name.html

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