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The “Tool Box Killers” Torture a Female Hitchhiker to Death – While Recording it

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, the “Tool Box Killers”, spotted 16-year-old Shirley Ledford, hitchhiking home from a Halloween party. During the course of Ledford’s murder, they tape-recorded themselves taunting her while she screamed for mercy. Norris was later quoted as saying: “We’ve all heard women scream in horror films … still, we know that no one is really screaming. Why? Simply because an actress can’t produce some sounds that convince us that something vile and heinous is happening. If you ever heard that tape, there is just no possible way that you’d not begin crying and trembling. I doubt you could listen to more than a full sixty seconds of it.”