Why so many Serial Killers all at the same time in one city? Between 1977 and 1987 the metropolis of Los Angeles had at least eight separate Serial Killers operating all at the same time. Many of us remember the so-called Freeway Killer and immediately think of William Bonin who left the bodies of 21 young men strewn along the freeways. However, many people have forgotten that there were two other Freeway Killers all operating in the same area at the same time. Their names were Patrick Kearney and Randy Kraft and they killed over 50 young men and dump their bodies near streets, highways and alleys.
During this time period women in the Los Angeles area may have felt safe from the Freeway Killers, but it wasn’t long after that the Hillside Strangler was littering the hillsides with bodies of young women. Shortly thereafter the Tool Box Killers picked up teenage girls at the beach and scattered their dead bodies in the local mountains where the wild life devoured their corpses. Simultaneously The Sunset Strip Killer was picking up young women walking the streets of Hollywood only to have their dead bodies discarded next to portable toilets.
By 1985, both men and women didn’t feel safe in Los Angeles with so many Serial Killers roaming the community. Then the double whammy occurred when the Nightstalker viciously struck and paralyzed everyone with fear in his murderous crime spree. If that wasn’t enough mayhem, at the same time the Southside Slayers were methodically raping and callously strangling women along the route to LAX.
The author has a unique insight on all these Serial Killer cases since he worked on many of the cases or had personal contact with the prosecutors who tried those cases. In this book he shares information and photos on these vicious murders much of which the public has never heard or seen before. For the first time he collectively reviews each of these distinctive Serial Killers revealing what caused these individuals to continually kill people for so many years.
The author next discusses the unique conditions that existed in the Los Angeles area that turned out to be a breeding ground for all these Serial Killers. The big question becomes what happened to all these Serial Killers that terrorized the City of the Angels. This unbelievable period of ten years left permanent scars on the psychic of every Angelino who endured such trepidation.
Even though the Golden Era of the Serial Killers of Los Angeles has faded into history it still remains vivid in the minds of those who lived through those scary times. Finally this book spells out the blueprint as to what needs to be done to assure that there will never be another Serial Killer of Los Angeles.
