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Nov 2024
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SERIAL KILLER: The Hillside Strangler fr...

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This episode was originally released in August 2019, and is one of sixteen episodes from the archives we'll be bringing you every Thursday, now through end of year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode between now and end of 2024, and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3

Between October of 1977 and February of 1978, a serial killer terrorized women in Southern California, known as the Hillside Strangler. Originally preying upon sex workers in Los Angeles, this offender began to target young women regardless of race or background, before simply vanishing for good. It wasn’t until a year later that police were able to link a separate crime to this spree, and from there, began to track down the culprit or, in this case, culprits…

 

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