Episode Guide THE EASTBOUND STRANGLER What kind of serial killer removes his victims' shoes and socks… and lays them out in a row, facing east? This is the mystery that confronts true crime author M. William Phelps in the bizarre cold case of The Eastbound Strangler. In November 2006, the bodies of four women were discovered in a drainage ditch behind a row of hotels, on the fringes of Atlantic City, New Jersey. After years of intense investigation, law enforcement remains baffled by the fact the victims' shoes were missing, and that their heads were all pointing east. Three of the women were known prostitutes who worked "The Track", a wasteland of broken dreams behind the casinos, on the dark side of Atlantic City's famous boardwalk. Does The Eastbound Strangler have a cross to bear against women he considers "fallen"? Is there a religious basis for the eastward positioning of the bodies? And are the later murders of four prostitutes in Long Island connected? To get inside the Dark Mind of this murderer, Phelps must rely on criminal profiler John Kelly — and personal insight from Kelly's secret source, a convicted serial killer code-named "13". |
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