He used various ruses to coax a female into his car, and from there she was likely never seen alive again.

On November 7, 1974, he abducted Carol DeRonch, 18, from a shopping center in Utah, and he was able to handcuff her wrists but she managed to get away. On July 14, 1974 he abducted two young women (Janice Ott and Denise Naslund) in Utah, and killed them both. His method was to lure them to his car and take them to a remote place and rape them, sometimes torture them, or sodomize them, then strangle them or kill them by another method. He raped and strangled a hitchhiker in Utah in 1974, and killed Nancy Wilcox in Utah in 1974; he raped, sodomized and murdered 17-year-old Melissa Smith also in 1974 (Clark Prosecutor). The list goes on and on, and the methods he used -- also considered the...
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