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Epithet used for serial killers
The
Freeway Killer
was a collective
epithet
given by the media and the police to what the media believed was a single
serial killer
claiming young male victims, predominantly in
California
during the 1970s and early 1980s, and who often discarded the victims' bodies alongside or upon freeways. However, there turned out to be three Freeway Killers who operated independently of each other, but just happened to select similar victims from similar locations.
The three killers were:
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