Rachel Sharp

Yeah, so as you mentioned, he is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.

What we know about his reign of terror, some of it still remains a mystery.

He claimed on his deathbed that he had murdered 30 women across around seven states.

However, investigators believe that number is probably far higher.

And the actual confirmed victims is a lot lower.

The only victims he was actually convicted of and definitively tied to when he was alive were victims between 1974 and 1978 across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah.

So the scope of the murders is absolutely huge, and we might never really know how many victims he really did prey on and kill.

Yeah, so it was the night before his execution date when he was about to be sent to the electric chair.

He'd sat on death row for years after finally being convicted of murder for murder of a little girl, actually, in Florida.

And it's largely seen as a way to kind of delay the execution that he opened up and spilled everything and claimed that he had killed 30 women, including obviously Laura and Amy.

But at the time that obviously other than his confession, there obviously wasn't a lot of evidence to actually prove whether he was telling the truth.

You know, some of that information could have been a red herring.

Some of it could have been just a delay tactic.

So obviously investigators didn't then just plow ahead and say, OK, case closed.

He's responsible for all of these crimes.

Yeah.

She was a 17 year old girl.

She'd grown up on a farm with her younger sisters and her parents.

And just before her murder, she had actually gotten into a little bit of trouble and her sister said that she'd actually ran away.

So at the time that she went missing, she was actually staying with friends.