In the late 1970’s as the post-war wave of violent crime headed towards its peak, dead bodies mostly of young men and boys began to litter the sides of the California freeway in droves. The police knew two distinct killers at least were responsible. One of them, William Bonin, drove a van and had accomplices the other, Randy Kraft, often jettisoned bodies while traveling at high speeds, hundreds of miles on the coast sometimes inland. This was but the forming crest of the deadly wave. As the wave began to crest the killer duo template pioneered by the Hillside Stranglers became imitated by even worse duos, most infamously Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
