The Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris
In the summer and fall of 1979, two men who met in prison carried out a five-month reign of terror across Southern California. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, known as the Toolbox Killers, used a van they called Murder Mac to abduct, rape, torture, and murder five teenage girls in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Host Alexander Lawson examines how the pair planned their crimes behind bars, the ordinary tools they turned into weapons, the surviving audio recording of one attack, and the investigation that finally stopped them. Bittaker was sentenced to death; Norris testified against him in…
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