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Killer on the Road

James Ellroy

Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage...

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RedHanded

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RedHanded

Ginger Strand in her book claims that hitchhiking is not as dangerous as it is portrayed and that there is no actual good evidence to support this, as hitchhikers are not overrepresented in crime statistics.

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In her book, Killer on the Road, Violence on the American Interstate, Ginger Strand, which sounds... there are so many food-based names in this episode that are just...

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Ginger Strand in her book claims that hitchhiking is not as dangerous as it is portrayed and that there is no actual good evidence to support this, as hitchhikers are not overrepresented in crime statistics.

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In her book, Killer on the Road, Violence on the American Interstate, Ginger Strand, which sounds... there are so many food-based names in this episode that are just...

What Ginger Strand says in her book is she actually relieves Saruti's everywhere by asserting that hitchhiking is not actually as dangerous as we think it is.

According to Ginger, we've never actually had any good evidence that hitchhiking is a particularly dangerous thing to do.

It turns out that hitchhikers are not actually overrepresented in any crime statistics that you might come across.

I think what she's basically saying is like at the time of abduction and murder, you're no more likely to be hitchhiking than doing quite a lot of other things, contrary to popular belief.

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