The Toolbox Killers: A Story of Terror and Torture

In just five months, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris murdered five teenage girls; for their own entertainment, they also videotaped some of the horrifying torture and killing sessions.

CONTENT WARNING! The following story contains graphic information, which some readers may find disturbing!

The two wicked individuals came to be recognized as the “Toolbox Killers.” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were a pair of sadistically violent serial rapists and murders who stalked adolescent girls around the Los Angeles region for five dark months in 1979. They used gadgets for torturing their victims that were more often found in the garage.

They would pick up hitchhikers from their van and take them to remote locations where they could live out their most macabre dreams of torture and rape.

For what they did, FBI profiler John E. Douglas would label Bittaker as “the most disturbing individual for whom he has ever created a criminal profile,” especially for the Halloween torture and murder of Shirley Ledford.

The prosecution in their trial would also characterize the events of that Halloween night as “one of the most shocking, brutal cases in…