Ghosts of Highway 20
- Year
- 1978
- Where
- Oregon
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
The Ghosts of Highway 20 were individuals who disappeared, or were victims of assault, rape and/or murder, along Highway 20 in the U.S. state of Oregon from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. John Arthur Ackroyd, a highway mechanic with the Oregon Department of Transportation, was a suspect in these cases. Detectives were able to prosecute the murder of Kaye Turner of 1978, for which he was sentenced to five life…
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Podcast episodes
- Ghosts of Highway 20Killing 15 Minutes · 2024
- How A Deranged Serial Killer Almost Got Away With It: The Ghosts of Highway 20Lights Out · 2025
- Drunken stories - The Ghosts of Highway 20 part 2Forever Broken 2.0 · 2026
- Drunken Stories - The Ghosts of HIghway 20Forever Broken 2.0 · 2026
- Episode 52: Bird Law - The Ghosts of Highway 20 PT 1Haunts, Graves, & Omens · 2022
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