Infamous Murders: Horror on the Highways
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The modern highway is a dangerous place, with the anonymity of its users and the speed with which they pass through making it an ideal hunting and dumping ground for murderers who prey on vulnerable travellers.
Unrepentant killer Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have murdered an astonishing 240 people, many of them hitchhikers or young women whose cars had broken down. He horrified police officers with his lengthy and detailed confessions. Sentenced to death, he was the only person to be reprieved by Texas governor George W. Bush, and he died in prison of natural causes.
In 1980 the highways around Hollywood and Los Angeles became a dumping ground for a murderer who sexually assaulted and strangled young boys. His name was William Bonin, a Vietnam War veteran who led a group of friends in random killing. After 17 years on death row he was put to death by lethal injection.
While Bonin was killing in LA, another murderer was on the loose in the U.S. Joseph Paul Franklin was a white supremacist from Alabama, who drove around the US shooting people with a high powered hunting rifle.
All his victims were black. In three years, Franklin killed up to 20 people in a one man campaign of racial and religious hatred across the south and midwest of America. Franklin is currently on death row in Missouri for killing a Jewish man outside a synagogue.
Unrepentant killer Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have murdered an astonishing 240 people, many of them hitchhikers or young women whose cars had broken down. He horrified police officers with his lengthy and detailed confessions. Sentenced to death, he was the only person to be reprieved by Texas governor George W. Bush, and he died in prison of natural causes.
In 1980 the highways around Hollywood and Los Angeles became a dumping ground for a murderer who sexually assaulted and strangled young boys. His name was William Bonin, a Vietnam War veteran who led a group of friends in random killing. After 17 years on death row he was put to death by lethal injection.
While Bonin was killing in LA, another murderer was on the loose in the U.S. Joseph Paul Franklin was a white supremacist from Alabama, who drove around the US shooting people with a high powered hunting rifle.
All his victims were black. In three years, Franklin killed up to 20 people in a one man campaign of racial and religious hatred across the south and midwest of America. Franklin is currently on death row in Missouri for killing a Jewish man outside a synagogue.
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