How Could a Charming and Successful Guy Dispose of His Victims Like Waste?
Patrick Kearney — The shameful actions of a man desperate to conceal a taboo fetish
During the late-70s and into the early 80s, Los Angeles, California, experienced an anomaly of sorts regarding a series of murders. Human remains were being disposed of along the many freeways that span the area. Some of the victims were tortured before they were murdered. Some of the victims were young teenagers, while others were adult men. Others were dismembered and placed in trash bags before they were disposed of.
While the authorities were investigating each murder, they were baffled by what appeared to be an erratic modus operandi. At the time, they dubbed their unsub The Freeway Killer. Little did they know, there was more than one killer at large — there were actually three of them.
The first of three suspects was Patrick Wayne Kearney, aka The Trash Bag Killer. The details of his case may just surprise you. They definitely surprised us.
The Murder that Broke the Case Open
On March 13, 1977, at approximately 5:30 pm, 17-year-old John LaMay left his house for Redondo Beach. He told his neighbor he had met a guy at his gym downtown named Dave, and he…
