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Thank you. visit Spotify.com slash resources. On September 10, 1984,

West Virginia State Trooper Debbie DeFalco sat hunched over a hand-drawn map.

It was a mess of intersecting roads and childish handwriting, but a few words stood out to her.

Interstate, gas station, and most importantly, rainbow meeting. The map belonged to an inmate at a

federal prison in Illinois, a white supremacist serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin.

He said that he'd murdered the so-called Rainbow Girls, Nancy Santamaro and Vicky Durian

during his multi-year crime spree.

And he'd sketched the map as proof.

There were markings to show where Franklin picked up the two hitchhikers,

the roads he took up into the mountains, and the spot where he allegedly left their bodies on

June 25, 1980. After briefly looking at the map on her own, DeFalco showed it to another

state trooper who'd been at the scene

the day of the murders. He said that it looked accurate. Some of the specifics were wrong,

but the route to the murder scene and the positions of the bodies seemed to be correct.

As DeFalco drove back to the state police headquarters, she continued to puzzle over the map.

It could be a false confession, but if so, it was hard to believe that Franklin just happened to get so many of the details.

Right.

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

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