In 2014, Detective Chad Rogers was assigned the Gold Strand and a dank cold case.

The cold case team comprising Detective West, retired Eugene police officer Chuck Tilby,

and retired state and federal prosecutor Kirk Engdal was still working it,

and believed, based on the callousness of the double shooting,

that it was likely Leanna and Eric's killer was, if not a serial killer, at least someone

who had killed before. Then a Santa Barbara County detective tipped the Lane County cold case

unit to Thor Christensen. Thor Nis Christensen, born in Denmark, was convicted as a serial

killer in Southern California in 1980. Christensen had killed three so-called

coeds from the Isla Vista area. The first was Jacqueline Rook, age 21, whom he abducted from

a bus stop in Galita, California on December 6, 1976. His next victim was Mary Saris, who

disappeared on the same day as Jacqueline. Then Then on January 18th, 21-year-old

Patricia Laney was waiting for a bus in the same area when she disappeared too. Patricia was found

the next day, shot to death and dumped in Refugio Canyon. Two days later, Jacqueline was found

in the same remote area. Both victims had been killed by a shot to the head from a small

caliber gun, a 22 caliber revolver. Mary Saris was not found until May 22nd in Drum Canyon, north of

Santa Barbara. She had suffered the same fate, a single shot to the head. Two hundred and seventy-five

pound high school dropout for Christensen was interviewed by police, along with hundreds of other people,

after he was arrested for being a minor in possession of alcohol.

But he wasn't considered a suspect even though the police found a 22-caliber pistol in his car.

Then on April 18, 1979, 24-year-old Linda Preston was hitchhiking in Hollywood when she got into a car

driven by Thor Christensen. After driving for several blocks, he shot a bullet into her left ear.

But Linda managed to jump out of the car and run away. And then this part is unbelievable. On July

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