
“He literally put Mitchell Johnson a few feet away from LeBanks. “I looked at this in two parts,” Thornton explains. If the killer offered drugs for sex, he’d get quite a few takers. A “user” needs to get dope, whatever it takes. She knew some people will do anything for a hit of crack. Bergeron knew prostitutes and drug dealers hung out there. It was one of his trolling grounds.Īnd every one of the victims had previously been convicted of at least one crime-everything from low-level misdemeanors to felonies. The rest of the victims had been wearing shoes.īut in analyzing the old reports, Bergeron noticed an actual common thread: the killer had picked up three or possibly four of his victims at the Sugar Bowl Motel or close to it.

Though four or five victims had worn no shoes, the sheriff’s conclusion that shoelessness was signature behavior turned out to be incorrect.
