Even after death, serial killer Jeffrey Lynn Hand continued to claim victims.
June 16th, 1973. Jeff Thomas and his wife Carol were on their way home from visiting relatives in Chicago. They were a young couple, both 22, with a love for adventure but not much money, and they decided to hitchhike home to Evansville, Indiana. At the intersection of 3rd street and I-70 in Terre Haute, the young couple stood with their thumbs out, just a few hours from home. It was 9 pm, a sweltering Saturday night. A blue 1968 Chevy pulled to the shoulder and they climbed in.
Although there are still plenty of daring travelers who choose to hitchhike, the numbers are not nearly what they were in the sixties and seventies. There was a time when Kerouac-devotees lived for the road and exalted in the thrill of climbing into a car with a complete stranger for a free ride to wherever they were going, but it only took a few highly publicized bad trips for hitchhiking to…
