The Trash Bag Killer: How a Quiet Engineer Hid 21 Bodies Along California’s Freeways
He clocked out of his engineering job at Hughes Aircraft, drove home to his spotless house in Redondo Beach, and shot a 17-year-old in the back of the head while the boy watched TV. Then he cut the body apart in the bathtub, sealed the pieces in trash bags, and dumped them in the desert.
For more than a decade, Patrick Kearney—the man police would call the Trash Bag Killer—picked up young men and boys along Southern California freeways and from gay bars. Sometimes he shot them while he was still driving, one hand on the wheel. He confessed to at least 28 murders. He was only convicted of 21…
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